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Transparency in conducting and reporting research: A survey of authors, reviewers, and editors across scholarly disciplines
Calls have been made for improving transparency in conducting and reporting research, improving work climates, and preventing detrimental research practices. To assess attitudes and practices regarding these topics, we sent a survey to authors, reviewers, and editors. We received 3,659 (4.9%) respon...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9994678/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36888682 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270054 |
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author | Malički, Mario Aalbersberg, IJsbrand Jan Bouter, Lex Mulligan, Adrian ter Riet, Gerben |
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description | Calls have been made for improving transparency in conducting and reporting research, improving work climates, and preventing detrimental research practices. To assess attitudes and practices regarding these topics, we sent a survey to authors, reviewers, and editors. We received 3,659 (4.9%) responses out of 74,749 delivered emails. We found no significant differences between authors’, reviewers’, and editors’ attitudes towards transparency in conducting and reporting research, or towards their perceptions of work climates. Undeserved authorship was perceived by all groups as the most prevalent detrimental research practice, while fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and not citing prior relevant research, were seen as more prevalent by editors than authors or reviewers. Overall, 20% of respondents admitted sacrificing the quality of their publications for quantity, and 14% reported that funders interfered in their study design or reporting. While survey respondents came from 126 different countries, due to the survey’s overall low response rate our results might not necessarily be generalizable. Nevertheless, results indicate that greater involvement of all stakeholders is needed to align actual practices with current recommendations. |
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spelling | pubmed-99946782023-03-09 Transparency in conducting and reporting research: A survey of authors, reviewers, and editors across scholarly disciplines Malički, Mario Aalbersberg, IJsbrand Jan Bouter, Lex Mulligan, Adrian ter Riet, Gerben PLoS One Research Article Calls have been made for improving transparency in conducting and reporting research, improving work climates, and preventing detrimental research practices. To assess attitudes and practices regarding these topics, we sent a survey to authors, reviewers, and editors. We received 3,659 (4.9%) responses out of 74,749 delivered emails. We found no significant differences between authors’, reviewers’, and editors’ attitudes towards transparency in conducting and reporting research, or towards their perceptions of work climates. Undeserved authorship was perceived by all groups as the most prevalent detrimental research practice, while fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and not citing prior relevant research, were seen as more prevalent by editors than authors or reviewers. Overall, 20% of respondents admitted sacrificing the quality of their publications for quantity, and 14% reported that funders interfered in their study design or reporting. While survey respondents came from 126 different countries, due to the survey’s overall low response rate our results might not necessarily be generalizable. Nevertheless, results indicate that greater involvement of all stakeholders is needed to align actual practices with current recommendations. Public Library of Science 2023-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9994678/ /pubmed/36888682 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270054 Text en © 2023 Malički et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Malički, Mario Aalbersberg, IJsbrand Jan Bouter, Lex Mulligan, Adrian ter Riet, Gerben Transparency in conducting and reporting research: A survey of authors, reviewers, and editors across scholarly disciplines |
title | Transparency in conducting and reporting research: A survey of authors, reviewers, and editors across scholarly disciplines |
title_full | Transparency in conducting and reporting research: A survey of authors, reviewers, and editors across scholarly disciplines |
title_fullStr | Transparency in conducting and reporting research: A survey of authors, reviewers, and editors across scholarly disciplines |
title_full_unstemmed | Transparency in conducting and reporting research: A survey of authors, reviewers, and editors across scholarly disciplines |
title_short | Transparency in conducting and reporting research: A survey of authors, reviewers, and editors across scholarly disciplines |
title_sort | transparency in conducting and reporting research: a survey of authors, reviewers, and editors across scholarly disciplines |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9994678/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36888682 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270054 |
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