Naslov
Research misconduct in health and life sciences in Brazil: a closer look at institutions with most retracted publications

Autori
Stavale, Rafaelly ; Izidoro, Graziani ; Guilhem, Dirce ; Pupovac Vanja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Fostering Research Integrity in an Unequal World / - Cape Town, 2022, 145-145

Skup
7th World Conference on Research Integrity

Mjesto i datum
Cape Town, Južnoafrička Republika, 29.05.2022. - 01.06.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
research integrity ; Retracted publications ; healht science ; research ethics ; research integrity guidelines

Sažetak
Objective: A review to gather in a book chapter the available knowledge about research misconduct in health and life sciences in Brazil considering funding institutions and universities: the presence of research integrity offices and available documents and guidelines for best practices in research at universities and research funding institutions. Method: We selected universities with the most authors involved in retracted publications according to our previous systematic review of retracted articles in health and life science by authors affiliated with Brazilian universities. We searched their websites for research integrity guidelines and offices, the same was done to the main Brazilian funding institutions. Results: Ten Universities were analyzed and 5 funding agencies. Of the Universities only 4 had official committees for research integrity, 3 had guidelines for good practices in science and research integrity, 1 had scientific journals with columns for research integrity, and 7 universities had no documents at all. The majority was concentred in the southeast region (n=6), followed by the northeast (n=2), south (n=1), and center east (n=1). The southeast is responsible for most of the scientific production in the country, had more universities involved in misconduct, and has a shortage of research integrity committees and guidelines. Among the funding agencies, we selected the most active institutions with national visibility and participation. Five institutions were selected, three with national activity. Only three had an official institutional office to act in favor of research integrity and good practices integrity and all had some guidelines for responsible practices (n=1), for research integrity (n=3), for aspects of research integrity (n=1) such as declaration anti-plagiarism or order forms of misconduct. For this study we only considered available information at the institution’s website, considering transparency and accessibility to information would pave the way for awareness of guidelines, official research integrity committees, and ongoing investigations. Conclusion: Brazilian Universities and funding institutions have pieces of what should be a more complex, accessible system to promote and sustain research integrity practices. Still, the country is 146 developing more strategies to achieve a better system to foster and monitor integrity by having scientists engaged on the theme. PW8.6 Ethics

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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