Keeping the Pool Clean: Prevention and Management of Misconduct Related Retractions

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"Keeping the Pool Clean: Prevention and Management of Misconduct-Related Retractions" was held on July 20-22 at the Hilton Fort Collins in Fort Collins, Colorado. "Research is iterative and necessitates a clean 'pool' of knowledge." The national conference covered how to handle fraudulent submissions, whistleblowing, retraction notices, ethics, roles and responsibilities, and institutional incentives that cloud the research waters. Presentations were comprised of 16 international speakers including researchers, journal editors, universities, research integrity officers, and those from the ORI, NSF, Science, and Retraction Watch. The event was sponsored by CSU and the Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS), Office of Research Integrity (ORI). This digital collection includes presentations given at the conference.

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Navigating the waters around "wicked problems": perspectives on misconduct from COPE
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-07-21) Pierson, Charon, author
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Whistleblower protection - the law and the reality
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-07-20) Schutjer, Linda, author
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Routine activity theory and research ethics: a criminological approach
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-07-20) Pimple, Kenneth D., author
Research misconduct is often attributed to pressure or bad apples. There is little use of these folk theories because all professional scientists in the United States are always under pressure and, apparently, bad apples are only discovered after misconduct has been committed. These theories do not offer any explanatory or predictive promise because they focus on the multifaceted individual within a multifaceted population. Until the late 20th century, efforts by criminologists trying to understand who become criminals focused on interior, individual qualities, such as temperament or faulty cognition. More recently, two closely related ways of understanding and preventing crime: the more abstract Routine Activity Theory (RAT) informing the more concrete Situational Crime Prevention (SCP). While research misconduct is not technically a crime, they are analogs, and the insights of criminology can fruitfully be applied to the practice of science. In short, we should pay attention to the ways day-to-day routines of doing science make it difficult or easy to commit research misconduct. If only one person – say a graduate student – ever saw raw data, the PI has little chance of recognizing falsification, and a PI who always or randomly scrutinizes raw data will naturally deter most would-be bad actors. In this talk, I will briefly explain RAT and SCP, provide additional examples from criminology and possibly useful examples for science.
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A few thoughts from NSF/OIG
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-07-21) Kroll, Jim, author
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Tools for preventing or identifying misconduct
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-07-20) Hall, Eric, author
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A university perspective on retractions
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-07-20) Rosse, Joe, author
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Retractions: observations of a quality assurance professional
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-07-20) Bens, Catherine, author
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A neuroscientist's view of the retraction notice: is self-reported motivation reliable?
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-07-20) Mason, Peggy, author
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Systemic threats to research integrity require systemic responses
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-07-21) Martinson, Brian C., author
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Cooperations between journals and institutions - the Lancet's experience
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-07-21) Kleinert, Sabine, author
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The Office of Research Integrity perspective on retractions
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-07-21) Kabak, Shara, author
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Finding balance when dealing with allegations
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-07-21) Bradford, Monica, author
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Scientific publishing's Wild West
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-07-20) Marcus, Adam, author

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