Promoting Research Integrity

Beyond "compliance": the role of institutional culture in promoting research integrity.

PURPOSE To contribute data to conceptual explorations of the role of institutional culture in promoting research ethics and integrity. METHOD The authors highlight relevant themes that emerged from a multimodal needs assessment conducted under the Johns Hopkins Clinical Translational Science Award regarding ethical issues encountered in the conduct of clinical and translational research. Qual...

Promoting scientific integrity in nursing research. Part I: Current approaches in doctoral programs.

Schools of nursing with doctoral programs were surveyed to determine current approaches and elicit suggestions for institutional- and professional-level strategies to promote scientific integrity. Results from 38 schools are reported in a two-part series. Part 1 reports findings concerning formal and informal instruction about responsible science and the standards, norms, and guidelines being u...

Mobile Agents Integrity Research

Mobile agents are an important technology in e-commerce systems and offer new possibilities for the e-commerce applications. This paper examines some mobile agent integrity protocols and proposes a new protecting protocol of mobile agent integrity. It can defend most known attacks, provides encryption transmission and route secrecy of mobile agents.

Professional integrity in clinical research.

In response to public concern over abuses in human medical experimentation, the dominant approach to the ethics of clinical research during the past 30 years has been regulation, particularly via institutional review board review and approval of scientific protocols and written consent forms. However, the effectiveness of regulatory mechanisms in ensuring the ethical conduct of clinical researc...

Research and scientific publication integrity.