Responsible Record Keeping Practices: Standards & Practices of Funded Researchers

负责任的记录保存实践：标准

基本信息

批准号：
7288139
负责人：
Kenneth Ray Wilson
金额：
$ 14.25万
依托单位：
EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2007
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2007-09-01 至 2010-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The integrity of research requires that research studies be verifiable and replicable. Good research records make this possible. Recent studies, including our own, have suggested that there is a large gap between recognized standards for good research records and actual practice among working scientists. In our prior studies we focused on record keeping practices involved in research misconduct investigations. Record keeping problems were often discovered during misconduct investigations and specific types of record keeping problems were identified. These results could be limited to researchers being investigated or it could be an indication of a wider problem. To answer this question, this project will compare specific ideal practices (standards) with the actual practices of record keeping of 600 PHS funded scientists from a variety of fields. Our prior work has identified (confirmed with focus groups of working scientists) a number of specific record keeping practices which are generally applicable across fields. This has allowed us to develop a questionnaire at the level of research group leaders (Schreier, Wilson and Resnik, 2006) that can be answered meaningfully by a diverse group of researchers. By comparing what researchers report actually happens in their research with the standards they would recommend to new researchers (ideal standards), we will be able to identify those standards to which researchers routinely adhere and those that are more problematic. We will also assess the extent and type of time consuming problems that deviations from ideal standards create for researchers. Since the results will be generally applicable to academic research, they should provide practical guidance to concerned researchers, RCR educators & policy makers. Finally we examine the transmission of good record keeping practices between scientific generations. Respondents will be asked to identify post-docs and graduate students they are mentoring. By comparing the view of the mentors with the views of their mentees, we will be able to assess if the system of transmitting standards is working at the point where it should be strongest (top researchers with their top students). In our prior studies we interviewed 96 research integrity officials from major research universities, and presented the results to four focus groups of active and diverse faculty researchers. This has allowed us to develop 1) a set of Best Practices for record keeping, 2) measures of real practices and ideal record keeping standards meaningful to researchers in diverse academic disciplines and 3) a research design that makes our proposed study compatible with the daily routines of active federally funded researchers.

描述（由申请人提供）：研究的完整性要求研究研究是可验证和可复制的。良好的研究记录使这成为可能。最近的研究，包括我们自己的研究，表明，公认的良好研究记录标准与工作科学家的实际实践之间存在很大差距。在先前的研究中，我们专注于记录涉及研究不当行为调查的实践。在不当行为调查中经常发现记录保存问题，并确定了特定类型的记录保留问题。这些结果可能仅限于正在研究的研究人员，也可能表明了更广泛的问题。为了回答这个问题，该项目将将特定的理想实践（标准）与600名PHS资助的科学家的实际实践进行比较。我们先前的工作已经确定（与工作科学家的焦点小组确认）许多特定的记录保存实践通常适用于各个领域。这使我们能够在研究小组领导者（Schreier，Wilson和Resnik，2006年）中开发问卷调查，该问卷可以由多样化的研究人员有意义地回答。通过将研究人员报告中实际发生的报告与他们建议的标准（理想标准）进行比较，我们将能够确定研究人员常规遵守的标准以及那些更有问题的标准。我们还将评估偏离理想标准为研究人员造成的耗时问题的程度和类型。由于结果通常适用于学术研究，因此他们应向有关的研究人员，RCR教育者和政策制定者提供实用指导。最后，我们研究了科学一代之间良好记录的保存实践的传播。将要求受访者识别他们正在指导的研究生和研究生。通过将导师的观点与受训者的看法进行比较，我们将能够评估传输标准系统是否在应有的地点（顶级研究人员和顶级学生）的那一刻起作用。在先前的研究中，我们采访了来自主要研究型大学的96位研究诚信官员，并将结果介绍给了四个活跃和多样化的教师研究人员的焦点小组。这使我们能够开发1）一组用于记录的最佳实践，2）真实实践的度量和理想的记录保持标准对不同学科的研究人员有意义； 3）研究设计，使我们的拟议研究与积极的联邦资助研究人员的日常工作兼容。