Mortimer For those in the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine at Adelaide University who are facing concerns around research ethics, Jenny is one of your Research Integrity Advisors (RIA) and is continuing in this role. Please feel free to contact her for a confidential discussion. Details of the Adelaide University Research Integrity Policy can be found on the Research Integrity portal.
This page is intended as a repository of articles around ethics in research, data management, good research practice and scientific reproducibility. Suggestions for additions and comments are, of course, welcome! Jenny's interest in this comes from her role as a Young Scientist at the World Economic Forum in 2016/17, where the cohort was tasked with developing a Code of Ethics for researchers.
Problems with statistics in science — and how to fix it
Starting with "talk to a statistician":
Preparing data for publication
- Some of Jenny's favourite guidance comes from the Plant Cell and Plant Physiology Instructions for Authors — regularly updated, with excellent advice on image preparation.
- A guide to error bars in experimental biology
- Adhering to the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles for data release is critical — see Making Data FAIR
Ethical guidelines
- The Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines from the Center for Open Science for standards in publishing (published in Science, 2015, 348:1422)
Publication best practices
- This guide from Wiley outlines their view on best practice in publishing, guided by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). Worth reading if you're involved in editing and reviewing — and to understand what best practice should look like from your journals.