Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2020 Oct;15(4):302-319. doi: 10.1177/1556264620927628. Epub 2020 Jul 2.
Research institutions are responsible for promoting research integrity and handling allegations of research misconduct. Due to various cultural and social contexts, institutional policies from different cultural backgrounds exhibit many differences, such as their primary concern and mechanisms for dealing with allegations of research misconduct. This comparative study analyses research misconduct policies from 21 Chinese and 22 European universities. The results show that definitions of research misconduct from all retrieved policies go beyond fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism but include different types of questionable research practices. Their procedures for handling research misconduct differ in, for example, confidentiality and disclosure of conflict of interest. Differences can also be found in their governance approaches ("bottom-up" versus "top-down").
研究机构负责促进研究诚信，并处理研究不端行为的指控。由于各种文化和社会背景的原因，不同文化背景的机构政策存在许多差异，例如它们主要关注的问题和处理研究不端行为指控的机制。本比较研究分析了来自 21 所中国大学和 22 所欧洲大学的研究不端行为政策。结果表明，所有检索到的政策中的研究不端行为定义不仅包括伪造、篡改和抄袭，还包括不同类型的有问题的研究行为。它们处理研究不端行为的程序在例如保密和披露利益冲突方面存在差异。在治理方法（“自下而上”与“自上而下”）上也存在差异。
