Berlin Institute of Health at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, QUEST Center for Responsible Research, Berlin, Germany.
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Institut für Ethik, Geschichte und Philosophie der Medizin, Hannover, Germany.
PLoS One. 2022 Jun 24;17(6):e0269492. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269492. eCollection 2022.
Concerns about research waste have fueled debate about incentivizing individual researchers and research institutions to conduct responsible research. We showed stakeholders a proof-of-principle dashboard with quantitative metrics of responsible research practices at University Medical Centers (UMCs). Our research question was: What are stakeholders' views on a dashboard that displays the adoption of responsible research practices on a UMC-level? We recruited stakeholders (UMC leadership, support staff, funders, and experts in responsible research) to participate in online interviews. We applied content analysis to understand what stakeholders considered the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the dashboard and its metrics. Twenty-eight international stakeholders participated in online interviews. Stakeholders considered the dashboard helpful in providing a baseline before designing interventions and appreciated the focus on concrete behaviors. Main weaknesses concerned the lack of an overall narrative justifying the choice of metrics. Stakeholders hoped the dashboard would be supplemented with other metrics in the future but feared that making the dashboard public might put UMCs in a bad light. Our findings furthermore suggest a need for discussion with stakeholders to develop an overarching framework for responsible research evaluation and to get research institutions on board.
人们对研究浪费的担忧引发了关于激励个体研究人员和研究机构开展负责任研究的争论。我们向利益攸关方展示了一个带有大学医学中心（UMC）负责任研究实践的定量指标的原理验证仪表板。我们的研究问题是：利益攸关方对展示 UMC 层面负责任研究实践采用情况的仪表板有何看法？我们招募了利益攸关方（UMC 领导层、支持人员、资助者和负责任研究方面的专家）参与在线访谈。我们应用内容分析法来了解利益攸关方认为仪表板及其指标的优势、劣势、机会和威胁是什么。28 名国际利益攸关方参与了在线访谈。利益攸关方认为仪表板有助于在设计干预措施之前提供基准，并赞赏其对具体行为的关注。主要弱点是缺乏整体叙述来证明指标选择的合理性。利益攸关方希望仪表板将来能补充其他指标，但担心将仪表板公开可能会使 UMC 陷入困境。我们的研究结果还表明，需要与利益攸关方进行讨论，以制定负责任的研究评估的总体框架，并让研究机构参与进来。
