Jegan Roshni, Labib Krishma, Dierickx Kris, Aubert Bonn Noémie, Tijdink Joeri, Marušić Ana, Pizzolato Daniel
Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities, Amsterdam Public Health Institute, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Account Res. 2024 Aug 28:1-20. doi: 10.1080/08989621.2024.2388232.
Research Funding Organizations (RFOs) play an important role in promoting research integrity (RI). Not only do they allocate resources to research institutions and researchers, but they also set and monitor research standards in their funded projects. In spite of their crucial role, there is a paucity of guidance on how RFOs can promote research integrity. As part of the EU-Funded SOPs4RI project, we aimed to address this gap by co-creating guidelines to help RFOs promote RI, engaging a diverse group of stakeholders. Based on a Delphi survey, reviews of evidence and stakeholder interviews, three guideline topics were identified: 1) the selection and evaluation of proposals; 2) monitoring of funded projects; and 3) prevention of unjustified interference. Four sets of co-creation workshops were conducted for each guideline topic, and the input revised and finalized. Understanding these debates could help RFOs from diverse cultural and organizational backgrounds who are developing their own RI guidelines. Therefore, in this paper, we summarize the key results and emphasize the final recommendations. Further, we provide the main points of discussion that occurred during the workshops and explain how they were addressed or resolved in the final guidelines and how they can help in future endeavors to improve funders' practices to foster RI.
研究资助机构（RFOs）在促进研究诚信（RI）方面发挥着重要作用。它们不仅为研究机构和研究人员分配资源，还在其资助项目中设定并监督研究标准。尽管它们发挥着关键作用，但关于RFOs如何促进研究诚信的指导却很少。作为欧盟资助的SOPs4RI项目的一部分，我们旨在通过共同制定指南来帮助RFOs促进研究诚信，从而填补这一空白，我们邀请了不同的利益相关者群体参与其中。基于德尔菲调查、证据审查和利益相关者访谈，确定了三个指南主题：1）提案的选择和评估；2）对资助项目的监督；3）防止不合理干预。针对每个指南主题举办了四组共同创作研讨会，并对意见进行了修订和最终确定。了解这些讨论有助于来自不同文化和组织背景、正在制定自身研究诚信指南的RFOs。因此，在本文中，我们总结了关键结果并强调了最终建议。此外，我们提供了研讨会期间进行的主要讨论要点，并解释了它们在最终指南中是如何得到处理或解决的，以及它们如何有助于未来改进资助者的做法以促进研究诚信的努力。
