Questions tagged [ethics]
On making a decision based on morals or common ethical codes instead of etiquette, rules, institutional or government policy, or technical or procedural reasons.
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What are academic conference centers doing to limit their climate impact?
This question is about what I call academic conference centers, by which I mean research centers whose purpose is to welcome international researchers for short-term thematic stays. Examples of such ...
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What is an example of a journal based in China which "warns authors that they are not affiliated with any paper-selling companies"?
Regarding the following quote:
... editors say an increasing number of journals based in China warn authors that they are not affiliated with any paper-selling companies.
Mara Hvistendahl, China'...
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Ethical guidelines for using uncensored photos of individuals in global health presentations
I have attended numerous global health meetings and conferences where I've observed scientists sharing uncensored photos of individuals, often from Africa and Asia, in their presentation slides. These ...
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What national agency in Russia codifies research ethics?
I am coordinating the funding proposal for a joint Austrian–Russian research project. The proposal needs to briefly discuss compliance with relevant ethics regulations and guidelines, preferably not ...
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Is it ethical to publish my own idea when ex-colleagues also wanted to work on it, and how do I make it clear which parts are my own contributions?
Context: Some years ago I collaborated on a paper, with my advisor and another grad student (first author), in which we would include
a certain competitive machine learning algorithm and
a ...
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Are there guidelines that say if post-submission publications must be cited?
I can see from this question Can I cite a paper published after the initial submission of my paper? asking if it is okay to cite papers after submission is answered as, yes- and sometimes you need to.
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My university is forcing me to take required classes at a different campus, which will be very expensive to me. Do I have any recourse?
I am a 4th year undergraduate physics major. At the beginning of my college career, I made a spreadsheet showing which classes I would take each semester. My advisor told me every semester that the ...
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In the United States, are there any ethical oversights on self-funded and published research?
I'm currently working on my CITI ethical human research certification. Given its dense nature my mind started to wander and I had the realization that all the protocols and ramifications I've so far ...
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What to do in case of academic dishonesty by organizers after getting published
I am trying to avoid academic dishonesty as far as possible. I have submitted a paper to a local journal and after getting published, I noticed that the editor-in-chief (who is also a professor in a ...
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Citing draft papers
I'm working on a project where I've come across a couple relevant papers that are marked as "preliminary drafts" and/or with a request not to cite them because they are preliminary.
Should I cite the ...
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How to mark paper as mainly my work before moving institutions
I have a paper that has some important work. I recently graduated and am about to work at a top 5 tech firm's AI research division. As part of the interview, they seemed really excited about this work ...
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How to handle unresponsive ex-supervisor on the submission of an article?
During my master's, I had done a project which yielded some interesting results that I and my supervisor started to write up. I moved to a different university (and country) for my PhD and kept ...
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Can pre-print be published as "working paper" after the peer reviewed and revised manuscript has been accepted for publication by the journal?
A colleague wishes to publish a pre-print as a "working paper" after the revised manuscript has gone through the peer review process and accepted for publication.
The rationale is that firstly, ...
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Ethics and legality of scraping (and ultimately publishing about) publicly available information from journal websites
I'm interested in scraping publicly available information from journal websites (such as article titles, authors, abstracts, and keywords).
After scraping the data, I'm interested in analyzing the ...
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"Competing interests" not disclosed? retraction?
I have recently come across this paper in Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17419-7
From the authors’ affiliations and corresponding email it seems like all authors are ...
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Academic changing universities: How to negotiate start date to minimise problems with leaving previous university with little notice?
I have an offer at another university. It is late June, just got it. They want me asap. I have asked to not go until after the fall semester as we have an accreditation site visit as well as a ...
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Navigating Ethical Dilemmas: Addressing Forced Authorship and Academic Misconduct in Doctoral Research
I am a doctoral student working in a research group with other students who are also my seniors. They are very diligent and have published some commendable papers. However, my advisor frequently ...
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Problems with my boss in academia: who to ask for some advice in Austria?
I have some problems with my boss at a university.
The problem does not only include cooperative aspects. It also involves some problems related to a post-doc project that I developed and that I gave ...
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How can French University (Master Coordinator) approve full-time internship that overlaps with classes for M1 student
I'm Currently a non-EU holding a Master degree in Physics and accumulating almost 2ys. of work experience. Getting closer to the EU market is hard; I was "brought" to France via a ...
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An article not presented in conference but published in conference special issue
Although an article was not presented at the conference, this article published in the conference special issue of a journal after reviewing and editorial process. Considering whether the authors ...
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Ethicality of submitting a manuscript without a peer's name on it if they didn't contribute and you didn't pursue their edits?
I work at a very large institution with multidisciplinary faculty and staff, and I was acquainted with someone (we'll call him Dr. StackExchange) by a close friend of mine for a collaboration prospect,...
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Submitting multiple research proposal to the same RFA as PI and CoPI
There are many benefits of being a PI while submitting a proposal to funding agencies, including that you often manage the funding and you get credits for tenure-track among others. Recently, I was ...
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Who gets to access a case study database and how?
In Case Study Research, Yin (2003) states the importance to build a case study database, in order to increase the reliability of the findings.
"...without a case study database, the raw data may ...
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Conference abstract - refer to paper under review
I am currently revising a journal article ("paper 1") that came back as "major revision". I intend to submit an abstract to a conference ("paper 2"). Paper 2 presents ...
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How to start working independently in a project?
It has been two months since I joined in this new project. I have put to work along with another postdoc researcher. Now we both have been asked to set a pipeline for sequencing analysis. This person ...
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is it ethical for a supervisor to exert pressure on a student because he is doing a project with a company?
I am currently a first year master student. My supervisor is having a project with a car company and this work was mainly assigned to a Phd student in my lab who volunteered for it. During the work, ...
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Academic dishonesty: Sending material to other group members?
To help with the rest of the members for the group assignment I sent some images of a guide on how to do academic research for assignments.
This ordinarily came from another unit of mine, which was ...
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Changing proposed project post-acceptance
I recently applied for a research based degree and I have indeed been offered admission (with funding), scheduled to start this fall.
Prior to my acceptance, I had an interview with my prospective ...
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Authorship Disputes and Contributions in Collaborative Research Projects
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My colleague (referred to as X) and I collaborated on two research endeavors, termed A and B. While our overarching goals aligned, our specific inputs varied due to individual commitments, ...
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