Planning Grant on Preserving Scientific Integrity in the the Behavioral Sciences

该奖项支持计划委员会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端行为的策略。规划工作将审查先前的研究和有关的努力，考虑如何扩大参与，包括广泛的行为和社会科学学科，并确定问题和活动，将适当地回应它们。计划召开两次委员会会议。第一门课程将发展对行为科学和社会科学中科学不端行为的伦理、法律、方法、编辑和公共政策问题的现状的理解。它将计划第二次会议的工作活动，并为会议之前要做的工作分配任务。在第二次会议上，委员会将制定一项需求评估和一套后续行动和活动的建议。之后，工作人员和委员会成员将共同准备一份报告，该报告将总结当前努力的现状，以尽量减少目标科学中的不当行为，确定当前工作中的差距，并建议进一步采取行动解决问题。该报告将分发给有关的政府机构和官员以及行为和社会科学家和期刊编辑。这个项目关注的是一个重要问题。主要研究人员和计划委员会成员都是非常合格的；策划活动是否适当和可行；赞助机构是非常合适的；结果将为有助于减少行为科学和社会科学中的不当行为的行动提供重要依据。强烈建议提供支持。

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.