How Journals and Institutions Can Work Together to Promote Responsible Conduct

Author: Eric C. Mah¹
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Affiliations: 1: Interim Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Research Integrity Officer, and Senior Director, Research Compliance, University of California, San Francisco
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• Published 15 December 2014
• aFor the purposes of this discussion, I shall focus only on the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations pertaining to research integrity, which applies to PHS-supported institutions.
  bSee specifically: §93.108 “Disclosure of the identity of respondents and complainants in research misconduct proceedings is limited, to the extent possible, to those who need to know, consistent with a thorough, competent, objective and fair research misconduct proceeding, and as allowed by law.” In addition, “Disclosure is limited to those who have a need to know to carry out a research misconduct proceeding” (45 CFR §93.108). §93.300(d) “Institutions [must]… take all reasonable and practical steps to protect the positions and reputations of good faith complainants, witnesses and committee members and protect them from retaliation by respondents and other institutional members” (45 CFR §93.300[d]). §93.411 “When a final HHS action results in a settlement or research misconduct finding, ORI may: …(b) Identify publications which require correction or retraction and prepare and send a notice to the relevant journal. (c) Publish notice of the research misconduct findings” (45 CFR §93.411).
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• ©2014 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology.
Source: J. Microbiol. Biol. Educ. December 2014 vol. 15 no. 2 143-145. doi:10.1128/jmbe.v15i2.869