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Responsible Research Essays and Articles

• The Authorship List in Science: Junior Physicists' Perceptions of Who Appears and Why
  This article that focuses on how authorship is distributed in everyday research collaborations with perspectives from junior faculty and post-doctoral graduates.

• Trustworthy Research-Editorial Introduction
  This article reviews the history of the research community's discussion of research ethics and surveys recent work on trust from various perspectives.

• Truth and Trustworthiness in Research
  This paper develops an overview of the subject of trustworthiness among researchers. Beginning with the breaches of trust that constitute major wrongdoing in research research misconduct, Whitbeck argues that these are more often examples of lesser betrayals and defections that undermine trust, than they are of outright fraud. Whitbeck also considers trust and trustworthiness among collaborating researchers and a range of intentional and unintentional behaviors that influence the character of these trust relationships, particularly between a supervisor and a supervisee.

• Colloquium on Responding to Allegations of Research Misconduct
  Results from a research ethics colloquium held at Case Western Reserve University in 1999, concerning the Office of Research Integrity, ORI, Policy for responding to allegations of scientific misconduct.

• Some Abstracts of Articles About Scientific Misconduct
  A small collection of abstracts from the 1980s. This page has been retained as part of the historical development of the OEC. It is not up to date.

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