OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Not so fast with fast funding	91
In Defense of the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity: Response to Radder	60
Fabrication in a study about honesty: A lost episode of columbo illustrating how forensic statistics is performed	40
Statement from the outgoing Editor in-Chief to our authors and readers	38
Correction	31
Defining “recklessness” in research misconduct proceedings	22
Development and implementation of research integrity guidance documents: Explorative interviews with research integrity experts	20
OHSU Employees’ Opinions of Receipt of Clinical Care and Participation in Clinical Research at Place of Employment	19
A Quality Checklist for Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Education: A proposal to complement the Predictive Modeling Tool	19
Misinterpretation of statistical nonsignificance as a sign of potential bias: Hydroxychloroquine as a case study	18
Evidence-based literature review, not the meta-analysis: A rejoinder	18
COI works both ways: Investigation of misconduct by an independent research integrity organization is the way to go	17
Recalibrated responses needed to a global research landscape in flux	17
Challenges for enforcing editorial policies on AI-generated papers	16
Perceptions on the role of research integrity officers in French medical schools	15
Bad apples or systematic problem? Is Italy struggling with maintaining high level of research integrity?	15
Retraction (mal)practices of elite marketing and social psychology journals in the Dirk Smeesters’ research misconduct case	15
Correlation between journal metrics-based academic evaluation and researchers’ ethics	14
Are highly ranked dental journals at risk of editorial bias? An examination of information on the reporting of peer-review practices	12
Responding to research misconduct allegations brought against top university officials	12
What is the sensitivity and specificity of the peer review process?	11
Transform DOI system into a science hub	10
The case for affiliation contribution statements	10
Ethical committee frameworks and processes used to evaluate humanities research require reform: Findings from a UK-wide network consultation	9
Training undergraduate students in HIPAA compliance	8

Is academic research and publishing still leaving developing countries behind?	8
Research anomalies in criminology: How serious? How extensive over time? And who was responsible?	8
Taking it back: A pilot study of a rubric measuring retraction notice quality	8
Messing with Merton: The intersection between open science practices and Mertonian values	8
How do researchers perceive research misbehaviors? A case study of Indian researchers	8
The present situation of and challenges in research ethics and integrity promotion: Experiences in East Asia	8
Research integrity guidelines and safeguards in Brazil	7
Industry effects on evidence: a case study of long-acting injectable antipsychotics	7
Knowledge, attitude, opinion, perspective, and agreement of Palestinian medical students on strategies/recommendations to curb plagiarism: A multicenter cross-sectional study	7
Replication and trustworthiness	7
Exploring scientific misconduct in Morocco based on an analysis of plagiarism perception in a cohort of 1,220 researchers and students	7
How can research institutions support responsible supervision and leadership?	7
Superb supervision: A pilot study on training supervisors to convey responsible research practices onto their PhD candidates	7
Is AI my co-author? The ethics of using artificial intelligence in scientific publishing	7
Using ChatGPT to conduct a literature review	6
How often are replication attempts questioned?	6
On the epistemological and methodological implications of AI co-authorship	6
Addressing serious and continuing research noncompliance and integrity violations through action plans: Interviews with institutional officials	6
Modernizing authorship criteria and transparency practices to facilitate open and equitable team science	6
Factors related to the severity of research misconduct administrative actions: An analysis of office of research integrity case summaries from 1993 to 2023	6
Harness editors’ networks of communication to fight publication fraud	6
Inclusive, engaged, and accountable institutional review boards	6
The PubPeer conundrum: Administrative challenges in research misconduct proceedings	6
ChatGPT as an “author”: Bibliometric analysis to assess the validity of authorship	5
Seeking help as a strategy for ethical and professional decision-making in research: Perspectives of researchers from East Asia and the United States	5
Perceptions of publication pressure among Hungarian researchers: Differences across career stage, gender, and scientific field	5
Requiem for impact factors and high publication charges	5
Views on ethical issues in research labs: A university-wide survey	5
Cancer researchers’ experiences with and perceptions of research data sharing: Results of a cross-sectional survey	5
Scientific priorities and relational dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study	5
Jumping with a parachute – is promoting research integrity meaningful?	5
Scholarship, not politics	5
On the (ab)use of special issues in scholarly journals	5
Can research integrity prevail in the market? Lessons from commissioned research organizations	5
Research integrity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of health science researchers at an Academic Health Science Center	5
Teaching research integrity as discussed in research integrity codes: A systematic literature review	4
Do authors need an Ombudsperson to resolve peer-review issues?	4
‘I don’t believe in the neutrality of research. OK?’ Mapping researchers’ attitudes toward values in science	4
Transferring rejected manuscripts to other journals: A good practice?	4
Development of consensus on essential virtues for ethics and research integrity training using a modified Delphi approach	4
Is requiring Research Integrity Advisors a useful policy for improving research integrity? A census of advisors in Australia	4
Research funders play an important role in fostering research integrity and responsible internationalization in a multipolar world	4
The letter as a forum to embed ethics into the scientific literature	4
Retraction according to gender: A descriptive study	4
Crossing disciplinary boundaries: An ethnographic exploration of academic publishing invitations	4
Transparency in research: An analysis of ChatGPT usage acknowledgment by authors across disciplines and geographies	4
The consistency of peer-reviewers and the process of commensuration: a comment on Bolek et al. (2022)	4
Chore or desire? Students’ response to online lessons in scientific integrity	4
Research integrity and the regulatory-industrial complex	4
Scientific misconduct: A cross-sectional study of the perceptions, attitudes and experiences of Spanish researchers	4

Reducing tensions and expediting manuscript submission via an authorship agreement for early-career researchers: A pilot study	4
Evolution of retracted publications in the medical sciences: Citations analysis, bibliometrics, and altmetrics trends	4
‘Special issue-ization’ as a growth and revenue strategy: Reproduction by the “big five” and the risks for research integrity	4
How to combine rules and commitment in fostering research integrity?	4
Correction	3
Postprints-to-preprints linkage to enhance access to scientific literature	3
Opening up a discussion on the native speaker myth in science	3
De-naturalizing the “predatory”: A study of “bogus” publications at public sector universities in Pakistan	3
Procrastination and inconsistency: Expressions of concern for publications with compromised integrity	3
Editorial	3
Are the lists of questionable journals reasonable: A case study of early warning journal lists	3
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	3
The impact of affiliation naming proximity on the retrieval efficiency of Chinese universities-affiliated retractions in the Retraction Watch Database	3
Evolution and characterization of health sciences paper retractions in Brazil and Portugal	3
Deploying an ethics needs assessment to inform a navigational tool for research compliance pathways at a provincial Canadian health authority	3
A tale of two formats: Graduate students’ perceptions and preferences of interactivity in Responsible conduct of research education	3
Keeping the health of our home planet in mind as we do research	3
The consistency of peer-reviewers: Assessment of separate parts of the manuscripts vs final recommendations	3
Reviewer acknowledgment lists as data: Low-hanging fruit for analysis	3
Research data mismanagement – from questionable research practice to research misconduct	2
Unethical medical treatment and research in US territories	2
Characteristics of blacklisted journals: Evidence from Chinese-language academic journals	2
New term for ethnoracial discrimination in science	2
Training, networking, and support infrastructure for ombudspersons for good research practice: A survey of the status quo in the Berlin research area	2
Why do some academics so often publish (letters) outside their field?	2
Inverted U-Shaped relationship between team size and citation impact: Mediating role of responsibility diffusion	2
How (not) to be held accountable in research: A reply to my critics	2
Impact of mentoring on the implementation of the quality management system in clinical laboratories in Burkina Faso, West Africa	2
Incorporating replication in higher education: Supervisors’ perspectives and institutional pressures	2
The “Monsanto papers” and the nature of ghostwriting and related practices in contemporary peer review scientific literature	2
Further thoughts on Bolek’s analysis of peer review reports	2
The definition of research misconduct should be stated in the abstract when reporting research on research misconduct	2
Improving evidence-based practice through preregistration of applied research: Barriers and recommendations	2
Authorship climate: A new tool for studying ethical issues in authorship	2
Ethical decision-making and role conflict in managing a scientific laboratory	2
AI, reviewer incentives, and questions raised by García et al.	1
Polarization in research: What is it, why is it problematic, and how can it be addressed?	1
In Memoriam Dr. Sheldon Krimsky	1
Open science, the replication crisis, and environmental public health	1
No study is ever flawless: A scoping review of common errors in biomedical manuscripts	1
The research literature is an unsafe workplace	1
Promoting research integrity in funding: Co-creating guidelines for research funding organizations	1
A dramatized method for teaching undergraduate students responsible research conduct	1
The association of gender, experience, and academic rank in peer-reviewed manuscript evaluation	1
Factors influencing the promotion and implementation of research integrity in research performing and research funding organizations: A scoping review	1
Virtue ethics-based research integrity training intervention to change medical students’ attitudes and perceptions of organizational ethical climate: A randomized controlled trial	1
Maintaining ethics, Integrity, and accountability: Best practices for reporting a meta-analysis	1
A policy toolkit for authorship and dissemination policies may benefit NIH research consortia	1
Using co-creation methods for research integrity guideline development – how, what, why and when?	1
Web archives for data collection: An ethics case study	1
Whistleblowing legislation and reporting on research misconduct: A case for mutual learning	1
The landscape of the characteristics, citations, scientific, technological, and altmetrics impacts of retracted papers in hematology	1
Family without kinship – the pluralism of European regulatory research integrity systems and its implications	1
For the “good of the lab”: Insights from three focus groups concerning the ethics of managing a laboratory or research group	1
The use of text-matching software’s similarity scores	1
Current status of approaches of Universities in fostering research ethics in Thailand	1
Conflict of interest as a cognitive bias	1
Status bias in Chinese scholarly publishing: an exploratory study based on mixed methods	1
Identifying the factors influencing plagiarism in higher education: An evidence-based review of the literature	1
Publishing important work that lacks validity or reproducibility – pushing frontiers or corrupting science?	1
A comprehensive ethics and data governance framework for data-intensive health research: Lessons from an Italian cancer research institute	1
Better guidance is needed for editorial expressions of concern	1
Are there accurate and legitimate ways to machine-quantify predatoriness, or an urgent need for an automated online tool?	1
Assessing the acceptability of individual studies that use deception: A systematic review of normative guidance documents	1
Assessment criteria for research misconduct: Taiwanese researchers’ perceptions	1
An active aigiarism declaration for manuscript submission	1
Institutional policies on plagiarism management:A comparison of universities in mainland China and Hong Kong	1
How (not) to be held accountable in research: The case of the Dutch integrity code	1
A comprehensive overview of studies that assessed article retractions within the biomedical sciences	1
Misconduct in research administration: What is it? How widespread is it? And what should we do about it?	1
Are there 34,000 human emotions? Deconstructing patterns of scientific misinformation	1
Assessing the climate for research ethics in labs: Development and validation of a brief measure	1
Incorporating implicit bias into research integrity education: Response to ‘Why and how to incorporate issues of race/ethnicity and gender in research integrity education’	1
Should informed consent and information related to patient recruitment in clinical trials be available to the reader of scientific articles? A case study in dentistry	1
Reflections on the 2024 Final Rule on Public Health Service Policies on Research Misconduct	1
Publishing in potentially predatory journals: Do universities adopt university leaders’ dishonest behavior?	1
Research misconduct and questionable research practices form a continuum	1
“Add-my-name” as a parody of research collaboration among Nigerian researchers	1
Nonfinancial conflict of interest in peer-review: Some notes for discussion	1