Data Management

Authors: National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case addresses issues of peer review, the need for more explicit guidelines and the ethical dilemmas faced by reviewers when avoiding conflicts of interest and maintaining confidentiality. Commentaries Included Online...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/2963/rescases/gradres/gradresv2/review.aspx

Authors: Goldfarb, Theodore ; Pritchard, Michael S.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In the 1930s and 1940s, Robert A. Millikan was the most famous U.S. scientist of his time. He had won the Nobel Prize in 1924, largely due to his important and innovative measurement, carried out around 1910, of the charge on the el...
Year: 2000
URL: http://onlineethics.org/CMS/edu/precol/scienceclass/sectone/cs2.aspx

Authors: Goldfarb, Theodore ; Pritchard, Michael S.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Describes two real-life cases from the 1980's handling the fabrication of data. The first covers the Darsee case in which a faculty member, considered a rising star at Harvard University, fabricated data in his research on heart med...
Year: 2000
URL: http://onlineethics.org/CMS/edu/precol/scienceclass/sectone/cs1.aspx

Authors: Bebeau, Muriel J.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Professor Marty Brown wants to exclude what he sees as anomalous data from a study he is conducting. Case Study from "Moral Reasoning in Scientific Research" published by the Poynter Center at Indiana University, Bloomington in De...
Year: 1995
URL: http://poynter.indiana.edu/mr/mr-brown.pdf

Authors: Krulwich, Terry Ann
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Scenairo that discusses proper use of data and record keeping policies in a lab....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/2963/rescases/msindex/msrecord.aspx

Authors: Stern, Judy E. ; Elliott, Deni ; Institute for the Study of Applied Ethics ; Professional
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This volume of essays covers most major areas of responsible conduct of research, including sections on authorship, experiments involving human and animal subjects, data management and ownership, and professional responsiblity. Each...
Year: 1997

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Authors: Drazen, Jeffrey M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article seeks to answer the question of who owns the data collected in a clinical trial, the sponsor of the trial, the researchers, or the human research subjects? In the author's opinion, data from both publicly and privately ...
Year: 2002
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-002-0062-x

Authors: Browning, Tyson R.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The author presents three interviews –two with researchers and one with a representative from industry–discussion instances where researchers are pressured to release results prematurely. Based on these interviews, the author makes...
Year: 1995
DOI: 10.1007/BF02583259

Authors: Bird, Stephanie J. ; Housman, David E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The author discusses the role trust plays in research, including its role between colleagues, the public's trust in the integrity of science, and how internal and external pressures influence the development of trust in scientific r...
Year: 1995
DOI: 10.1007/BF02583255

Authors: Archer, Simon
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: After describing and illustrating what is meant by creative accounting, the author examines and rejects arguments that this practice is not a form of lying. It then examines the ethical issues raised by creative accounting, in light...
Year: 1996
DOI: 10.1007/BF02639318

Authors: Andersen, Daniel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: In 1992, The Danish Medical Research Council established a national committee on scientific dishonesty and charged it with handling cases of scientific misconduct and developing preventnative initiatives. The article discusses the ...
Year: 2000
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-000-0019-x

Authors: Woodward, Richard S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Safety testing of biological pharmaceuticals is often carried out by contract testing laboratories which perform these tests on behalf of the drug's developer. These laboratories are confronted with a number of ethical issues relate...
Year: 1995
DOI: 10.1007/BF02628803

Authors: Wilson, Kenneth ; Griffin, Angel ; Resnik, David B. ; Schreier, Alan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: In order to gain a better idea about the the frequency and kinds of problems that occur in the area of recording keeping in scientific research, the authors interviewed Research Integrity Officers (RIOs) at 90 major research univer...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1080/08989620601126017

Authors: Tikk, Arvo
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The article looks at possible areas of conflict of interest that can take place in Estonia's clinical trials. The author also briefly discusses Estonia's current position with regard to regulating genetic information and the commenc...
Year: 2002
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-002-0050-1

Authors: Pritchard, Michael S. ; Cutler, Gale
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Jack Jacobs, an engineering co-op student from a State University, "fudges" the data, causing catastrophic failure....
Year: 1992
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/12510.aspx

Authors: Hall, John
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When a newspaper weighs its reporting responsibilities, where do law-enforcement priorities fit in?...
Year: 1989
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/aiding-law-enforcement/stop-this-is-a-warning/

Authors: Sieber, Joan E. ; Trumbo, Bruce E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Adequate citation of data sets is crucial to the encouragement of data sharing, to the integrity and cost-effectiveness of science and to easy access to the work of others. The citation behavior of social scientists who have publish...
Year: 1995
DOI: 10.1007/BF02628694

Authors: Schrag, Brian ; Love-Gregory, Latisha ; Muskavitch, Karen M. T.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This case is part of a series of case studies used as an exercise within a program on research ethics education. The case involves research on genetic birth defects in a culturally distinct, closed religious community in which elder...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-003-0037-6

Authors: Syracuse University, Professional Development Programs of the Graduate School
Publication Type: Audiovisual
Abstract: This is a series of seventeen short video case studies covering different areas of responsible conduct of research. The case studies are meant to help foster informal discussions about issues of academic and research integrity betw...
Year: 2002
URL: http://gradschpdprograms.syr.edu/resources/videos.php

Authors: Pascal, Chris B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Management of the research data is an extremely important responsibility of the principal investigator (PI) and other members of the research team. Without accurate data, no worthwhile conclusions can be drawn from the research stud...
Year: 2006

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Authors: Welin, Stellan ; Munthe, Christian
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The ideal of scientific openness, i.e., the idea that scientific information should be freely accessible to interested parties, is strongly supported throughout the scientific community. At the same time, however, this ideal does no...
Year: 1996
DOI: 10.1007/BF02583928

Authors: Shipp, Allan C. ; Korenman, Stanley G.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A lab technician is instructed by his supervisor to disregard a portion of the data set he has just produced, and told that it will not be included in the write-up of the research results....
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/DSRA3.htm

Authors: Shipp, Allan C. ; Korenman, Stanley G.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In preparation of a progress report to her funder, a researcher instructs her graduate student to include photographs which give an impression of more success than has actually been achieved....
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/DSRA4.htm

Authors: Korenman, Stanley G. ; Shipp, Allan C.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A post-doctoral fellow is coerced by her advisor to submit an abstract for a national neurosciences meeting before she feels she is ready....
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/ReportingPreliminaryResults.htm

Authors: Shipp, Allan C. ; Korenman, Stanley G.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A professor overhears a discussion about an article about to be published and uses what he learns to improve his own research....
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/UseConfidentialInfoD3.htm