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Vigilance Is Needed to Ensure the Quality of Research
Vigilance Is Needed to Ensure the Quality of Research
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Questionable research practices, which include such actions as inappropriate inclusion of an author in a list of authors or maintaining inadequate research records, can erode confidence in the integrity of the research process and waste time and resources. Researchers and their institutions need to discourage these practices through a broad range of formal and informal means, including education, institutional policies and procedures, and peer review.
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Yet as research has become more tightly linked to national needs, the accountability of researchers and research institutions supported with public funds has become an increasingly prominent issue. In defining misconduct in research, different government agencies use (lifferent definitions, and some of these include ambiguous categories into which unconventional but acceptable research practices could fall.
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