Standards of Scientific Conduct: Disciplinary Differences.

ABSTRACT: Teaching of responsible conduct of research is largely predicated on the assumption that there are accepted standards of conduct that can be taught. However there is little evidence of consensus in the scientific community about such standards, at least for the practices of authorship, collaboration, and data management. To assess whether such differences in standards are based on disciplinary differences, a survey, described previously, addressing standards, practices, and perceptions about teaching and learning was distributed in November 2010 to US faculty from 50 graduate programs for the biomedical disciplines of microbiology, neuroscience, nursing, and psychology. Despite evidence of statistically significant differences across the four disciplines, actual differences were quite smal

SUBMITTER: Kalichman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4375091 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature