Resources

Best Research for Best Health: A New National Health Research Strategy

Clinical Trials Toolkit

Cooksey Review: A Review of UK Health Research Funding

Doing the right thing: outlining the Department for Work and Pensions' approach to ethical and legal issues in social research

Nolan Committee First Report on Standards in Public Life: Summary

Report on the Review of Patient Identifiable Information (Caldicott Committee Report)

Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care

A Review of Appraisal, Disciplinary and Reporting Arrangements for Senior NHS and University Staff with Academic and Clinical Duties (Follet Review)

Select Committee on Science and Technology Documents

Universal Ethical Code for Scientists (Council for Science and Technology)

 

Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986

European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine

Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, concerning Biomedical Research

Guidance on the operation of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986

Human Tissue Act 2004

Ionizing Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2000

Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004

 

Examples of Good Practice: Research Governance Monitoring and Auditing (NHS R&D Forum Research Governance Working Group)

Governance arrangements for NHS Research Ethics Committees

Maintaining High Professional Standards in the Modern NHS: Guidance on Clinical Academics

Model Clinical Trials Agreement

NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework

Research Misconduct and Fraud. NHS R&D Forum: Good Practice Guidance

 

Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Ethics

British Educational Research Association Revised Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research

British Psychological Society Code of Ethics and Conduct

Code of Ethics for Researchers of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

British Society of Criminology Code of Ethics for Researchers in the Field of Criminology

Conducting Research on the Internet: Guidelines for Ethical Practice in Psychological Research Online (BPS)

ESRC Research Ethics Framework

Ethical challenges in study design and informed consent for health research in resource-poor settings (Marshall). TDR 2007

Ethical Evaluation of Research in Finland (National Advisory Board on Research Ethics)

Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subjects Research on the Internet (AAAS)

Guidelines for the ethical conduct of medical research involving children (Paediatrics et al). Arch Dis Child 2000. Subscription required

International Compilation of Human Research Protections (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects (CIOMS)

The Missenden Code of Practice for Ethics and Accountability

National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (Australia)

NERC Ethics Policy

Operational Guidelines for Ethics Committees that Review Biomedical Research (TDR)

A question of method: the ethics of managing conflicts of interest (Hurst and Mauron). EMBO Reports 2008

Report on the Rules Governing Research Ethics (Danish Research Agency)

Report on the Seoul Forum on the Code of Ethics for Scientists and Engineers

Research Ethics: Royal College of Nursing Guidance for Nurses

Social Research Association Ethical Guidelines

Standards for Ethics and Responsibility in Science: An Empirical Study (SCRES)

Statement of Ethical Practice for the British Sociological Association

Statement of Ethical Principals (Royal Academy of Engineering)

World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki

 

ABPI Code of Practice for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Accountability in Science and Research Funding (ESF Workshop)

Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research

BBSRC Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice

Code of Conduct (Market Research Society)

Code of Conduct for Scientists (Science Council of Japan)

European Forum for Good Clinical Practice publications

Freedom, Responsibility and the Universality of Science (ICSU)

Education in the responsible conduct of research. Academic Medicine 2007

The European Charter for Researchers: The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers (EC Community Research)

The European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers: A UK HE Sector Gap Analysis (RCUK & UUK)

Good Professional Practice for Biomedical Scientists (IBMS)

Good Scientific Practice in Research and Scholarship (ESF Policy Briefing)

Guide to Good Practice in Science and Engineering Research (EPSRC)

Guidelines for the Conduct of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)

Guidelines on Good Research Practice (AMRC)

Handbook: Quality Practices in Basic Biomedical Research (TDR)

Integrity in Scientific Research: Principals and Procedures (Swiss Academy of Arts and Sciences)

Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research (U.S. ORI)

Joint Code of Practice for Research (BBSRC/DEFRA/FSA/NERC)

Memorandum on Scientific Integrity: On Standards for Scientific Research and a National Committee for Scientific Integrity (ALLEA/KNAW/NWO/VSNU)

The Netherlands Code of Conduct for Scientific Practice

MRC Good Research Practice

OECD Global Science Forum: Best Practices for Ensuring Scientific Integrity and Preventing Scientific Misconduct

OECD Global Science Forum: Report of the Workshop on Best Practices in International Scientific Cooperation

Principals for strengthening the integrity of clinical research (Korn and Ehringhaus). PLoS Clin Trial 2006

Promoting good research practice (Murray). Statistical Methods in Medical Research 2000. Subscription required

Recommendations of the Commission on Professional Self Regulation in Science (DFG)

Research Integrity: global responsibility to foster common standards (ESF)

Research: The Role and Responsibilities of Doctors (GMC)

Responsible Conduct of Research Education Resource - Bibliography (U.S. ORI)

Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice

Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics (HPC)

Standards of Proficiency: Biomedical Scientists (HPC)

Stewards of Integrity: Institutional Approaches to Promote and Safeguard Good Research Practice in Europe (ESF Survey Report)

Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare (Evans, Thornton and Chalmers)

Wellcome Trust Guidelines on Good Research Practice

Why clinical research needs medical audit (Proctor). Quality and Safety in Health Care 1993. Subscription required

 

How to handle authorship disputes: a guide for new researchers (Albert and Wager). The COPE Report 2003

COPE Flowcharts

COPE Guidelines on Good Publication Practice

CSE White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications

Enhancing the quality and transparency of health research (Groves). BMJ 2008

Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research (ACS)

Good Publication Practice Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Companies

Peer Review: The Challenges for Humanities and the Social Sciences (British Academy Report)

Science and the Public Interest: Communicating the Results of New Scientific Interest to the Public (Royal Society)

The trouble with medical journals (Smith). J R Soc Med 2006

Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals: writing and editing for biomedical publication (ICMJE)

 

Academic Misconduct Benchmarking Research Project Part I: The Range and Spread of Penalties Available for Student Plagiarism (AMBeR Project)

Academic Misconduct Benchmarking Research Project Part II: The Recorded Incidence of Student Plagiarism and the Penalties Applied (AMBeR Project)

Cases of Plagiarism Tried by the United States Office of Research Integrity 1992 - 2005 (Price). Plagiary 2006

Cleaning up the act (Tahir). THE 2008

Consensus Conference on Misconduct in Biomedical Research 1999: Consensus Statement

Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty Annual Reports

Déjà vu - a study of duplicate citations in Medline (Errami et al). Bioinformatics 2008

Guest authorship and ghost writing in publications related to Rofecoxib (Ross et al). JAMA 2008. Subscription required

ICSU CFRS Statement on Promoting the Integrity of Science and the Scientific Record

Impact of covert duplicate publication on meta-analysis: a case study (Tramèr et al). BMJ 1997

Investigating the previous studies of a fraudulent author (Smith). BMJ 2005

Lock, S., Wells, F. and Farthing, M. (eds.) (2001) Fraud and Misconduct in Biomedical Research, 3rd edition. BMJ, London.

The policing of science (Goodman). J R Soc Med 2004

Repairing research integrity (Titus et al). Nature 2008. Subscription required

Report from the investigation commission appointed by Rikshospitalet - Radium Hospitalet MC and the University of Oslo January 18, 2006

Reporting mortality findings in trials of Rofecoxib for Alzheimer's disease or cognitive impairment. A case study based on documents from Rofecoxib litigation. JAMA 2008. Subscription required

Research misconduct ( U.S. National Science Foundation)

Research misconduct: can Australia learn from the UK's stuttering system? (Marcovitch). MJA 2006

Research misconduct: the poisoning of the well (Smith). J R Soc Med 2006

Research misconduct, retraction and cleansing the medical literature: lessons from the Poehlman case (Sox and Rennie). Ann Int Med 2006

Role of systematic reviews in detecting plagiarism: case of Asim Kurjak (Chalmers). BMJ 2006

Sabbagh, K. (1999) A Rum Affair: a true story of botanical fraud. Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London.

Scientific Misconduct and its Prevention (Science Council of Japan)

Scientists behaving badly (Martinson et al). Nature 2005. Subscription required

A survey of newly appointed consultants' attitudes towards research fraud (Geggie). Journal of Medical Ethics 2001. Subscription required

Suspected research fraud: difficulties of getting at the truth (White). BMJ 2005

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Public Health Service Policies on Research Misconduct

What's in a picture? The temptation of image manipulation (Rossner and Yamada). JCB 2004

 

ACAS Code of Practice 1: Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures

Learning from Bristol: Whistleblowing in the NHS

 

Authorship, ghost science, access to data and control of the pharmaceutical scientific literature: who stands behind the word? (Blumsohn). AAAS Professional Ethics Report 2006

Federal Science and the Public Good: Securing the Integrity of Science in Policy Making (Union of Concerned Scientists)

Financial conflict-of-interest policies in clinical research: issues for clinical investigators (Boyd et al). Academic Medicine 2003

From optimism to disillusion about commitment to transparency in the medico-industrial complex (Chalmers). J R Soc Med 2006

Greenhalgh, T. (2006) How to Read a Paper: the basics of evidence-based medicine, 3rd edition. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.

Making sense of non-financial competing interests (PLoS Medicine Editors). PLoS Med 2008

National Institutes of Health: Conflicts of Interest in Extramural Research (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship and research outcome and quality: systematic review (Lexchin et al). BMJ 2003

Protecting Participants and Facilitating Social and Behavioural Sciences Research (Citro et al, eds.)

U.S. ORI Handbook for Institutional Research Integrity Officers

Shared Responsibility, Individual Integrity: Scientists Addressing Conflicts of Interest in Biomedical Research (FASEB)

Why most published research findings are false (Ioannidis). PLoS Med 2005