Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance

Article	Citations
Misinterpretation of statistical nonsignificance as a sign of potential bias: Hydroxychloroquine as a case study	220
Addressing serious and continuing research noncompliance and integrity violations through action plans: Interviews with institutional officials	108
The case for affiliation contribution statements	82
On the epistemological and methodological implications of AI co-authorship	67
Inclusive, engaged, and accountable institutional review boards	52
Taking it back: A pilot study of a rubric measuring retraction notice quality	43
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	39
Ethical committee frameworks and processes used to evaluate humanities research require reform: Findings from a UK-wide network consultation	34
Challenges for enforcing editorial policies on AI-generated papers	29
Fake no more: The redemption of ChatGPT in literature reviews	27
Exploring scientific misconduct in Morocco based on an analysis of plagiarism perception in a cohort of 1,220 researchers and students	27
Accountability in evidence syntheses: On the need for rigorous peer review and reporting guidelines	25
Shared responsibility to address questionable research practices? – A study of perceived efficacy of organizational research integrity policies	25
Correction	25
How (not) to be held accountable in research: A reply to my critics	23
Characteristics of blacklisted journals: Evidence from Chinese-language academic journals	22
Faculty-student differences in authorship perceptions before and after authorship ethics interventions	19
Statement of Retraction: Assessing database accuracy for article retractions: A preliminary study comparing Retraction Watch Database, PubMed, and Web of Science	19
Procrastination and inconsistency: Expressions of concern for publications with compromised integrity	19
A comprehensive ethics and data governance framework for data-intensive health research: Lessons from an Italian cancer research institute	18
Inverted U-Shaped relationship between team size and citation impact: Mediating role of responsibility diffusion	17
Manifestations of research ethics and integrity leadership in national surveys – cases of Estonia, Finland, Norway, France and the Netherlands	16
Analysis of scientific paper retractions due to data problems: Revealing challenges and countermeasures in data management	15
Comparing the performance of Retraction Watch Database, PubMed, and Web of Science in identifying retracted publications in medicine	15
New evidence of weakness and inconsistency in the regulation of research misconduct in Australia	14

A comprehensive overview of studies that assessed article retractions within the biomedical sciences	13
Status bias in Chinese scholarly publishing: an exploratory study based on mixed methods	13
Institutional policies on plagiarism management:A comparison of universities in mainland China and Hong Kong	13
Does YouTube promote research ethics and conduct? A content analysis of Youtube Videos and analysis of sentiments through viewers comments	12
Opening Pandora’s box: Developing reviewer rhetorical sensitivity through retracted articles	12
Perceptions of network-level ethics in an engineering research center: Analysis of ethical issues & practices reported by scientific & engineering participants	11
Comparing companion open access journals to their traditional journal counterparts	11
Creating research ethics and integrity country report cards: Case study from Europe	11
How to embed ethics into laboratory research	10
In defense of the ICMJE authorship guideline, a rejoinder to Curzer	10
AI-based research mentors: Plausible scenarios and ethical issues	10
Possible misplaced perception of moral shame in AI-use disclosure	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
Artificial Intelligence (AI) guidance for authors, peer reviewers, and editors: A content analysis of journal policies	10
Development, validity, and reliability of the pre-attendance conference evaluator (PACE) tool for identifying predatory conferences	10
Typology of conflict of commitment (COC) in the era of inappropriate foreign influence in research	10
How to write a good embedded ethics letter	10
A structural equation model for cyber academic dishonesty in higher education: Evidence from Taiwan	10
Leadership, management, and team practices in research labs: Development and validation of two new measures	9
Retraction (mal)practices of elite marketing and social psychology journals in the Dirk Smeesters’ research misconduct case	9
Rethinking the author name ambiguity problem and beyond: The case of the Chinese context	9
Fabrication in a study about honesty: A lost episode of columbo illustrating how forensic statistics is performed	9
Clarifying polarization in research	9
GAIDeT (Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy): A taxonomy for humans to delegate tasks to generative artificial intelligence in scientific research and publishing	9
COI works both ways: Investigation of misconduct by an independent research integrity organization is the way to go	9
On polarization, incommensurability, and value-laden research. A response to Bjørn Hofmann, 2024	8
The consistency of peer-reviewers and the process of commensuration: a comment on Bolek et al. (2022)	8
Teaching research integrity as discussed in research integrity codes: A systematic literature review	8
Keeping the health of our home planet in mind as we do research	8
Are the lists of questionable journals reasonable: A case study of early warning journal lists	8
A Delphi survey on attitudes to serious research misconduct: Exploring convergence vs. polarization of views of research “sleuths” and research integrity experts	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
Reflections on the 2024 Final Rule on Public Health Service Policies on Research Misconduct	8
Toward an “ecosystems” approach to responsible conduct of research (RCR): A multi-stakeholder framework for collaborative accountability and policy recommendations on research integrity	8
Scientific priorities and relational dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study	8
‘Special issue-ization’ as a growth and revenue strategy: Reproduction by the “big five” and the risks for research integrity	8
Disclosing artificial intelligence use in scientific research and publication: When should disclosure be mandatory, optional, or unnecessary?	8
Incorporating replication in higher education: Supervisors’ perspectives and institutional pressures	7
AI, reviewer incentives, and questions raised by García et al.	7
Limits of ethical non-human subjects research in an applied setting	7
Using AI to write scholarly publications	7
The research literature is an unsafe workplace	7
The case for compensating peer reviewers: A response to Moher and Vieira Armond	7
It takes two flints to start a fire: A focus group study into PhD supervision for responsible research	7
Timing and monitoring of financial disclosures in publications: A cross-institutional assessment of financial conflict of interest reports	7
Spin in randomized controlled trials of pharmacology in COVID-19: A systematic review	7
“Dear Editor, may I speak with you?“	7
Evaluating the effectiveness of a Delphi-validated educational video in enhancing awareness and understanding of predatory journals among residents and medical students	6
Ethics tools for strengthening ethics review: A scoping Review	6

The case for universal artificial intelligence declaration on the precedent of conflict of interest	6
More ethics in the laboratory, please! Scientists’ perspectives on ethics in the preclinical phase	6
Self-plagiarism: A retrospective study of its prevalence and patterns across scientific disciplines	6
The punishment intensity for research misconduct and its related factors: An exploratory study on hospitals in Mainland China	6
On “intent” in research misconduct	6
Group authorship, an excellent opportunity laced with ethical, legal and technical challenges	6
Student views on the culture of STEM research laboratories: Results from an interview study	6
Can ChatGPT be trusted to provide reliable estimates?	6
The trinity of good research: Distinguishing between research integrity, ethics, and governance	5
Bad apples or systematic problem? Is Italy struggling with maintaining high level of research integrity?	5
Identificatory underpinnings of ethical research behavior for graduate students: Evidence from a baseline sample of a university research ethics training program	5
Harness editors’ networks of communication to fight publication fraud	5
Consequences of undisclosed conflicts of interest in academic publishing	5
Polarization in research or mere dissent – a need for better demarcation	5
What is the sensitivity and specificity of the peer review process?	5
From disclosure to evidence: Toward auditable AI use and contribution provenance	5
Correction	5
Responding to research misconduct allegations brought against top university officials	5
Researching retraction: Do we need more rules or more honesty?	5
In Defense of the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity: Response to Radder	5
Improving diversity in research: Successes and limitations of research team education in fostering inclusive recruitment practices and community voice	5
Emerging ethical duties in AI-mediated research: A case of data sovereignty in applying cross-national regulation	5
Research integrity in Spain: Great expectations, mediocre results	5
Is AI my co-author? The ethics of using artificial intelligence in scientific publishing	5
The PubPeer conundrum: Administrative challenges in research misconduct proceedings	5
Registration of research on research integrity is still not common: Findings from the Hong Kong, Cape Town, and Athens editions of the World Conference on Research Integrity	4
Closing the paper mines	4
The justified limits of transparency in research misconduct reports	4
Ranking-based sanctions for retraction-afflicted elite researchers	4
Importance of considering historical contexts when selecting terminology for questionable journal list names	4
Maintaining ethics, Integrity, and accountability: Best practices for reporting a meta-analysis	4
How (not) to be held accountable in research: The case of the Dutch integrity code	4
Development of consensus on essential virtues for ethics and research integrity training using a modified Delphi approach	4
Evolution of retracted publications in the medical sciences: Citations analysis, bibliometrics, and altmetrics trends	4
Is requiring Research Integrity Advisors a useful policy for improving research integrity? A census of advisors in Australia	4
Are there accurate and legitimate ways to machine-quantify predatoriness, or an urgent need for an automated online tool?	4
A practitioner-centered policy roadmap for ethical computational social science in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland	4
Why research integrity matters and how it can be improved	4
Research data mismanagement – from questionable research practice to research misconduct	4
Cancer researchers’ experiences with and perceptions of research data sharing: Results of a cross-sectional survey	4
Guidelines needed for the use of AI in the preparation or review of IRB, IBC, and IACUC applications	4
How to categorize citation irregularities: A proposal based on an exploration of the literature	4
The definition of research misconduct should be stated in the abstract when reporting research on research misconduct	4
Using co-creation methods for research integrity guideline development – how, what, why and when?	4
Why and how to incorporate issues of race/ethnicity and gender in research integrity education	3
The core epistemic responsibilities of universities: Results from a Delphi study	3
AI, originality, and attribution: Researchers’ perspectives on distinguishing contributions	3
Citation bias, diversity, and ethics	3
Evidence-based literature review, not the meta-analysis: A rejoinder	3
Appropriate inclusion of adult research participants with intellectual disability: an in-depth review of guidelines and policy statements	3
Author academic influence and manuscript acceptance: Evidence from peer review in cell press journals	3
A policy toolkit for authorship and dissemination policies may benefit NIH research consortia	3
Open minds, tied hands: Awareness, behavior, and reasoning on open science and irresponsible research behavior	3
Perspectives on non-financial conflicts of interest in health-related journals: A scoping review	3
Research anomalies in criminology: How serious? How extensive over time? And who was responsible?	3
Correction	3
AI vs academia: Experimental study on AI text detectors’ accuracy in behavioral health academic writing	3
Extent of publishing in predatory journals by academics in higher education institutions in Zimbabwe: A case study of a university	3
Status of animal experimentation in nutrition and dietetic research: Policies of 100 leading journals and new approach methodologies	3
Self-retraction as redemption: Forgiveness for repentant authors	3
Perception of organizational climate by university staff and students in medicine and humanities: A qualitative study	3
Not so fast with fast funding	3
Peer reviewer fatigue, or peer reviewer refusal?	3
Managing manuscripts with potential dual-use research of concern: A thematic analysis of life science journal policies	2
On and off-the-record correction practices: A survey-based study of how chemistry researchers react to errors	2
Correction	2
Psychiatry vs. medicine editor-in-chiefs’ research publications in their own journals before, during, and after their tenures – An exploratory study	2
Write your paper on the motherland?	2
Polarization in research: What is it, why is it problematic, and how can it be addressed?	2
Publishing important work that lacks validity or reproducibility – pushing frontiers or corrupting science?	2
The association of gender, experience, and academic rank in peer-reviewed manuscript evaluation	2
Is it plagiarism if the material was previously published by a third party?	2
Do authors need an Ombudsperson to resolve peer-review issues?	2
How to combine rules and commitment in fostering research integrity?	2
A study on ethical review processes of local ethics committees for animal experimentation in Türkiye*	2
Randomised clinical trials integrity and patient, carer and public involvement: A scoping umbrella review	2
Two economies of medical knowledge: The publishing oligopoly and the clinical trial shadow profession	2
A data mining-based study on academic publication retractions in the 21st Century	2
Correction	2
Assessing the influence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on awareness and behavior in medical research integrity: An online survey study	2

Seniority, authorship order, and severity of punishment in research misconduct – shared/honorary authorships as explanations for an apparent paradox	2
Mismatch in perceptions of the quality of supervision and research data management as an area of concern: Results from a university-wide survey of the research integrity culture at a Belgian universit	2
The impact of affiliation naming proximity on the retrieval efficiency of Chinese universities-affiliated retractions in the Retraction Watch Database	2
Transferring rejected manuscripts to other journals: A good practice?	2
International multi-stakeholder consensus statement on patient, carer and public involvement to enhance clinical trial integrity	2
Scientific misconduct: A cross-sectional study of the perceptions, attitudes and experiences of Spanish researchers	2
Messing with Merton: The intersection between open science practices and Mertonian values	2
Developing, implementing, and transferring a faculty-led RCR training program	2
How can research institutions support responsible supervision and leadership?	2
A tale of two formats: Graduate students’ perceptions and preferences of interactivity in Responsible conduct of research education	2
Truthfulness as the basis for ethical safeguards in deceptive research: An interview study with researchers	2
Reasons for retractions in potential predatory journals	2
De-naturalizing the “predatory”: A study of “bogus” publications at public sector universities in Pakistan	2
Training, networking, and support infrastructure for ombudspersons for good research practice: A survey of the status quo in the Berlin research area	2
Developing faculty research mentors: Influence of experience with diverse mentees, gender, and mentorship training	2
On the (ab)use of special issues in scholarly journals	2
Seeking help as a strategy for ethical and professional decision-making in research: Perspectives of researchers from East Asia and the United States	2