Planning Grant on Preserving Scientific Integrity in the the Behavioral Sciences

该奖项支持规划委员会的努力，以考虑行为和社会科学期刊编辑可能有助于减少其科学中的不当行为的策略。规划工作将审查先前的研究和相关努力，考虑如何扩大参与范围，以包括广泛的行为和社会科学学科，并确定将适当应对的问题和活动。计划召开两次委员会会议。第一个课程将发展对行为和社会科学中科学不端行为的伦理、法律、方法论、编辑和公共政策问题的现状的理解。它将规划第二次会议的工作活动，并为会议前要完成的工作分配任务。在第二次会议上，委员会将制定一项需求评估和一套应遵循的行动和活动建议。之后，工作人员和委员会成员将共同编写一份报告，总结将目标科学中的不当行为减少到最低限度的努力的当前状况，找出当前努力中的差距，并建议采取进一步行动来解决问题。该报告将分发给相关政府机构和官员，以及行为和社会科学家以及期刊编辑。这个项目聚焦于一个重要的问题。主要调查人员和规划委员会成员的资质非常好；规划活动是适当和可行的；主办组织非常合适；结果将为有助于减少行为和社会科学不端行为的行动提供重要依据。强烈建议您提供支持。

This award supports a planning committee effort to consider strategies by which behavioral and social science journal editors might help to reduce misconduct in their sciences. The planning effort will examine prior research and related efforts, consider how to broaden involvement to include a wide range of behavioral and social science disciplines, and define the problems and activities that would respond to them appropriately. Two committee meetings are planned. The first will develop an understanding of the current status of ethical, legal, methodological, editorial and public policy issues with respect to scientific misconduct in the behavioral and social sciences. It will plan the work activities for the second meeting and make assignments for work to be done preceding that meeting. At the second meeting, the committee will develop a needs assessment and a set of recommendations for action and activities that should follow. Afterwards, staff and committee members will work together to prepare a report that will summarize the current status of efforts to minimize misconduct in the target sciences, identify gaps in the current effort, and recommend further actions to address the problems. The report will be disseminated to relevant governmental agencies and officials and to behavioral and social scientists and journal editors. This project focuses on an important issue. The principal investigators and planning committee members are very well qualified; planning activities are appropriate and feasible; the sponsoring organization is very appropriate; results will provide an important basis for actions that can help to reduce misconduct in the behavioral and social sciences. Support is highly recommended.