Project: Fostering Transparent and Responsible Conduct of Research: What can Journals do?

Description:
Since their origin in the 17th century, publications in scientific journals have become the foundation of scholarly communication. Yet the publication process itself, duties and responsibilities of editors, and the preparation of manuscripts for submission have gone through many changes. The current drive towards study registration, sharing of protocols, manuscript pre-print, full transparency of reporting and the use of reporting guidelines, data sharing, and study replication, are seen as the future of scientific communication and methods of preventing scientific misconduct and undesirable research practices.

The goals of this project are:

1) Study the current state of publication ethics, research integrity- and transparency-related policies of scholarly Journals (by analysing instructions to authors from a representative sample of journals in the humanities, social, natural, and life sciences);

2) Study the trends and changes in publication ethics, research integrity- and transparency-related policies of scholarly Journals (by conducting a systematic review of all studies indexed in MEDLINE, Web of Science and Scopus that have analysed instructions to authors of journals);

3) Study editors’, authors’ and reviewer’ perceptions and attitudes towards topics related to transparent and responsible conduct of research (by conducting large scale surveys, focus group, web-chats and acceleration room sessions);

4) Make (evidence-based) recommendations of how publishers and journals may implement publication principles and foster the integrity and transparency of research (by summarizing the evidence of the first 3 steps of the project).

Team Members:

Mario Malički
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0698-1930

IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0209-4480

Lex Bouter
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2659-5482

Gerben ter Riet
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2231-7637

Project collaborators:
Ana Jerončić
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1621-1956

Adrian Mulligan
Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Funding
This project was funded by Elsevier.

自17世纪以来，科学期刊的出版物已奠定学术交流的基石。然而，出版流程本身、编辑的职责与责任，以及投稿手稿的准备工作经历了诸多变迁。当前对研究登记、协议共享、稿件预印本、报告全透明度、使用报告指南、数据共享和研究复制的推动，被视为未来科学交流以及预防科学不端行为和不良研究实践的方法。本项目的目标如下：

1) 研究学术期刊在出版伦理、研究诚信与透明度相关政策方面的当前状态（通过分析来自人文、社会科学、自然科学和生命科学领域代表性期刊的作者指南）；

2) 研究学术期刊在出版伦理、研究诚信与透明度相关政策方面的趋势和变化（通过系统回顾MEDLINE、Web of Science和Scopus索引中所有分析期刊作者指南的研究）；

3) 研究编辑、作者和审稿人对透明和负责任研究行为相关主题的看法和态度（通过进行大规模调查、焦点小组、网络聊天和加速室会议）；

4) 提出基于证据的建议，以指导出版商和期刊如何实施出版原则，促进研究的诚信与透明度（通过总结项目前三个步骤的证据）。

团队成员：
Mario Malički
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0698-1930

IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0209-4480

Lex Bouter
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2659-5482

Gerben ter Riet
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2231-7637

项目合作者：
Ana Jerončić
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1621-1956

Adrian Mulligan
Elsevier，阿姆斯特丹，荷兰

资助：
本项目由Elsevier资助。