OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Mitigating global climate change and its environmental impact is a key social responsibility of scientists and should be part of research ethics policies and guidelines	148
On the epistemological and methodological implications of AI co-authorship	90
OHSU Employees’ Opinions of Receipt of Clinical Care and Participation in Clinical Research at Place of Employment	42
The case for affiliation contribution statements	41
Inclusive, engaged, and accountable institutional review boards	39
Ethical committee frameworks and processes used to evaluate humanities research require reform: Findings from a UK-wide network consultation	27
Addressing serious and continuing research noncompliance and integrity violations through action plans: Interviews with institutional officials	23
Taking it back: A pilot study of a rubric measuring retraction notice quality	23
Misinterpretation of statistical nonsignificance as a sign of potential bias: Hydroxychloroquine as a case study	23
Exploring scientific misconduct in Morocco based on an analysis of plagiarism perception in a cohort of 1,220 researchers and students	23
Challenges for enforcing editorial policies on AI-generated papers	20
Correction	19
Retraction according to gender: A descriptive study	18
Fake no more: The redemption of ChatGPT in literature reviews	15
Reducing tensions and expediting manuscript submission via an authorship agreement for early-career researchers: A pilot study	15
Inverted U-Shaped relationship between team size and citation impact: Mediating role of responsibility diffusion	14
Characteristics of blacklisted journals: Evidence from Chinese-language academic journals	14
How (not) to be held accountable in research: A reply to my critics	14
Procrastination and inconsistency: Expressions of concern for publications with compromised integrity	14
Manifestations of research ethics and integrity leadership in national surveys – cases of Estonia, Finland, Norway, France and the Netherlands	14
Comparing the performance of Retraction Watch Database, PubMed, and Web of Science in identifying retracted publications in medicine	14
Analysis of scientific paper retractions due to data problems: Revealing challenges and countermeasures in data management	13
A comprehensive ethics and data governance framework for data-intensive health research: Lessons from an Italian cancer research institute	13
Status bias in Chinese scholarly publishing: an exploratory study based on mixed methods	12
Does YouTube promote research ethics and conduct? A content analysis of Youtube Videos and analysis of sentiments through viewers comments	12

Perceptions of network-level ethics in an engineering research center: Analysis of ethical issues & practices reported by scientific & engineering participants	12
Institutional policies on plagiarism management:A comparison of universities in mainland China and Hong Kong	12
For the “good of the lab”: Insights from three focus groups concerning the ethics of managing a laboratory or research group	11
How to write a good embedded ethics letter	11
A comprehensive overview of studies that assessed article retractions within the biomedical sciences	11
Typology of conflict of commitment (COC) in the era of inappropriate foreign influence in research	11
Creating research ethics and integrity country report cards: Case study from Europe	10
How to embed ethics into laboratory research	10
The author expression of concern (AEOC): A proposed formal mechanism to allow authors’ legitimate concerns to be heard, and their rights and voices to be respected	10
In defense of the ICMJE authorship guideline, a rejoinder to Curzer	10
GAIDeT (Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy): A taxonomy for humans to delegate tasks to generative artificial intelligence in scientific research and publishing	10
Fabrication in a study about honesty: A lost episode of columbo illustrating how forensic statistics is performed	9
Leadership, management, and team practices in research labs: Development and validation of two new measures	9
Superb supervision: A pilot study on training supervisors to convey responsible research practices onto their PhD candidates	9
How do researchers perceive research misbehaviors? A case study of Indian researchers	9
AI-based research mentors: Plausible scenarios and ethical issues	9
A structural equation model for cyber academic dishonesty in higher education: Evidence from Taiwan	9
Retraction (mal)practices of elite marketing and social psychology journals in the Dirk Smeesters’ research misconduct case	9
Industry effects on evidence: a case study of long-acting injectable antipsychotics	9
Rethinking the author name ambiguity problem and beyond: The case of the Chinese context	9
COI works both ways: Investigation of misconduct by an independent research integrity organization is the way to go	9
Scientific priorities and relational dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study	8
‘I don’t believe in the neutrality of research. OK?’ Mapping researchers’ attitudes toward values in science	8
Mapping nine decades of research integrity studies (1935–2024): A scientometric analysis	8
Teaching research integrity as discussed in research integrity codes: A systematic literature review	8
Are the lists of questionable journals reasonable: A case study of early warning journal lists	8
The consistency of peer-reviewers and the process of commensuration: a comment on Bolek et al. (2022)	8
Publishing in potentially predatory journals: Do universities adopt university leaders’ dishonest behavior?	7
Reflections on the 2024 Final Rule on Public Health Service Policies on Research Misconduct	7
Incorporating replication in higher education: Supervisors’ perspectives and institutional pressures	7
Disclosing artificial intelligence use in scientific research and publication: When should disclosure be mandatory, optional, or unnecessary?	7
Keeping the health of our home planet in mind as we do research	7
‘Special issue-ization’ as a growth and revenue strategy: Reproduction by the “big five” and the risks for research integrity	7
Evolution and characterization of health sciences paper retractions in Brazil and Portugal	6
Timing and monitoring of financial disclosures in publications: A cross-institutional assessment of financial conflict of interest reports	6
AI, reviewer incentives, and questions raised by García et al.	6
The case for compensating peer reviewers: A response to Moher and Vieira Armond	6
Nonfinancial conflict of interest in peer-review: Some notes for discussion	6
Using AI to write scholarly publications	6
Spin in randomized controlled trials of pharmacology in COVID-19: A systematic review	6
The use of text-matching software’s similarity scores	6
The research literature is an unsafe workplace	6
Time-based changes in authorship trend in research-intensive universities in Malaysia	5
Group authorship, an excellent opportunity laced with ethical, legal and technical challenges	5
“Dear Editor, may I speak with you?“	5
It takes two flints to start a fire: A focus group study into PhD supervision for responsible research	5
The punishment intensity for research misconduct and its related factors: An exploratory study on hospitals in Mainland China	5
Evaluating the effectiveness of a Delphi-validated educational video in enhancing awareness and understanding of predatory journals among residents and medical students	5
Limits of ethical non-human subjects research in an applied setting	5
Student views on the culture of STEM research laboratories: Results from an interview study	5

More ethics in the laboratory, please! Scientists’ perspectives on ethics in the preclinical phase	5
Self-plagiarism: A retrospective study of its prevalence and patterns across scientific disciplines	5
The trinity of good research: Distinguishing between research integrity, ethics, and governance	4
On “intent” in research misconduct	4
Can ChatGPT be trusted to provide reliable estimates?	4
Responding to research misconduct allegations brought against top university officials	4
Harness editors’ networks of communication to fight publication fraud	4
The case for universal artificial intelligence declaration on the precedent of conflict of interest	4
Research integrity in Spain: Great expectations, mediocre results	4
Bad apples or systematic problem? Is Italy struggling with maintaining high level of research integrity?	4
In Defense of the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity: Response to Radder	4
From disclosure to evidence: Toward auditable AI use and contribution provenance	4
What is the sensitivity and specificity of the peer review process?	4
Is AI my co-author? The ethics of using artificial intelligence in scientific publishing	4
The PubPeer conundrum: Administrative challenges in research misconduct proceedings	4
Research data mismanagement – from questionable research practice to research misconduct	3
Are there accurate and legitimate ways to machine-quantify predatoriness, or an urgent need for an automated online tool?	3
A policy toolkit for authorship and dissemination policies may benefit NIH research consortia	3
Importance of considering historical contexts when selecting terminology for questionable journal list names	3
Why research integrity matters and how it can be improved	3
Is requiring Research Integrity Advisors a useful policy for improving research integrity? A census of advisors in Australia	3
Evolution of retracted publications in the medical sciences: Citations analysis, bibliometrics, and altmetrics trends	3
Ranking-based sanctions for retraction-afflicted elite researchers	3
Perceptions of publication pressure among Hungarian researchers: Differences across career stage, gender, and scientific field	3
How (not) to be held accountable in research: The case of the Dutch integrity code	3
Assessment criteria for research misconduct: Taiwanese researchers’ perceptions	3
Using co-creation methods for research integrity guideline development – how, what, why and when?	3
The justified limits of transparency in research misconduct reports	3
The consistency of peer-reviewers: Assessment of separate parts of the manuscripts vs final recommendations	3
Development of consensus on essential virtues for ethics and research integrity training using a modified Delphi approach	3
In Memoriam Dr. Sheldon Krimsky	3
A practitioner-centered policy roadmap for ethical computational social science in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland	3
Extent of publishing in predatory journals by academics in higher education institutions in Zimbabwe: A case study of a university	3
Maintaining ethics, Integrity, and accountability: Best practices for reporting a meta-analysis	3
The definition of research misconduct should be stated in the abstract when reporting research on research misconduct	3
Cancer researchers’ experiences with and perceptions of research data sharing: Results of a cross-sectional survey	3
Author academic influence and manuscript acceptance: Evidence from peer review in cell press journals	2
Perception of organizational climate by university staff and students in medicine and humanities: A qualitative study	2
Assessment of the knowledge and attitudes of the Iranian medical faculty toward plagiarism	2
The core epistemic responsibilities of universities: Results from a Delphi study	2
AI, originality, and attribution: Researchers’ perspectives on distinguishing contributions	2
Self-retraction as redemption: Forgiveness for repentant authors	2
How can research institutions support responsible supervision and leadership?	2
Training undergraduate students in HIPAA compliance	2
Correction	2
Status of animal experimentation in nutrition and dietetic research: Policies of 100 leading journals and new approach methodologies	2
Correction	2
AI vs academia: Experimental study on AI text detectors’ accuracy in behavioral health academic writing	2
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding plagiarism of postgraduate students in Myanmar	2
Evidence-based literature review, not the meta-analysis: A rejoinder	2
On the (ab)use of special issues in scholarly journals	2
Developing, implementing, and transferring a faculty-led RCR training program	2
Research anomalies in criminology: How serious? How extensive over time? And who was responsible?	2
Citation bias, diversity, and ethics	2
Open minds, tied hands: Awareness, behavior, and reasoning on open science and irresponsible research behavior	2
Why and how to incorporate issues of race/ethnicity and gender in research integrity education	2
Peer reviewer fatigue, or peer reviewer refusal?	2
Appropriate inclusion of adult research participants with intellectual disability: an in-depth review of guidelines and policy statements	2
Perspectives on non-financial conflicts of interest in health-related journals: A scoping review	2
A data mining-based study on academic publication retractions in the 21st Century	2
Messing with Merton: The intersection between open science practices and Mertonian values	2
Not so fast with fast funding	2