Why Universities Should Make Misconduct Reports Public

2025/01/01 by Ivan Oransky, Adam Marcus · 2 voices · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Medicine · Decision Sciences · #Academic integrity and plagiarism #Ethics in Clinical Research #Ethics in Business and Education

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/jme.2025.39

Abstract

This paper reflects on the availability of a key document in the research integrity landscape: Reports of institutional and university misconduct investigations. It reviews how universities have typically responded to calls for disclosure, offers suggestions to mitigate concerns, and argues that the failure to release such reports creates a critical evidence gap. It closes with a call for disclosure of such reports as a default.

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Discussions

• Why Universities Should Make Misconduct Reports Public | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge Core doi.org/10.1017/jme.... [bsky, 25 points, 0 comments]
• re reporting research misconduct investigations, it's disappointing that the "full dataset" mentioned in this UKCORI report excludes both identities of institutions & all quantitative data. zenodo.org [bsky, 11 points, 0 comments]

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