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Identification of essential virtues addressed in ethics and research integrity training: a scoping review

Objective: Most approaches to ethics and research integrity (ERI) training are principle-based, but it has been argued that approaches focusing on compliance but neglecting researchers’ moral and value development fail to equip them for the complexities of real life research and situations not covered by rules and codes. The European project VIRT2UE takes a primarily virtue ethics approach to research integrity in order to develop a train- the-trainer learning programme enabling contextualized ERI teaching across Europe. The aim of this study is to identify gaps in the virtue-based research training, to clarify key scientific virtues and to report on the types of evidence that address scientific virtues in ERI training. Method: We will conduct a scoping review of the academic literature dealing with virtues addressed in ERI training. In order to include any existing literature which evaluated or reported on scientific virtues addressed in ERI training, we developed a search strategy based on the following concepts: 1) research integrity, 2) research ethics, 3) principles of European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, 3) scientific virtues. We will include experimental, quasiexperimental, controlled before and after, before and after, and interrupted time series studies published in Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, ERIC, and PsycINFO. Two independent reviewers will assess documents for eligibility, initially reviewing titles and abstracts, and then the full text of those deemed eligible. We will follow the methodology and guidance for the conduct of scoping reviews developed by members of the Joanna Briggs Institute and members of five Joanna Briggs Collaborating Centres. Results: At this stage, we conducted the preliminary search of Medline which retrieved 7898 articles. Title and abstract screening excluded 7829 articles, leaving 69 article for full text analysis. The same search will be adapted to other 4 data bases and the full set of selected article will be included in the synthesis of evidence. Conclusion:The results of this scoping review will inform the future efforts in scientific virtue training by providing evidence regarding which virtues should be stimulated and developed in training for good research practice.

research integrity ; research ethics ; virtue ethics ; training ; education

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