Integrity Insights
To ensure that the audience is well served, the town halls are designed based on pre-event surveys collecting audience topics of interest.
When Donna Kessler, Misconduct Review Officer at Duke, reported the incidence of plagiarism found in national studies of research misconduct, gasps were heard from the audience of our most recent R
Authorship remains both a primary means for sharing scientific discovery and a primary currency for demonstrating an individual’s scientific contribution. Consequently, deciding authorship has the
The newly created Duke Office of Scientific Integrity (of which ASIST is part of) recently hosted a town hall “Improving Grantspersonship from a Reviewer's Perspective”.
Is the biggest enemy of good science a financial conflict of interest? Probably not. The real enemy is bias. How do you measure bias? What are potential sources of bias?
Ask a seasoned researcher what it takes to be good at research apart from formal training, and he or she is likely to list such attributes as tenacity, innovative ideas, attention to detail, and wr
The next event in the new Research Town Hall series will take place Nov 1. As part of this event, Dr.
Have you ever hit a paywall when searching for a scientific publication? A paywall describes an arrangement where access to content is restricted to only those who have paid a subscription.
A complaint of plagiarism, defined as the use of other people’s ideas, results, or words without proper acknowledgment, can lead to a research misconduct investigation, potential loss of funding, a