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Gaps in Ethics Series
The Science and Engineering Research Center
Set in the Science and Engineering Research Center, which specializes in the field of medical-engineering, of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Shuwa University, a fictional school, the story is focused on an associate professor (Dr. Segawa) and a student (Sasayama), with a young researcher and assistant professor (Dr. Maruyama) as an intermediary.
- #Medical-EngineeringCollaboration
- #Fabrication
- #Falsification
- #CollaborativeResearch
- #LabManagement
- #Authorship
- #ResponseToIncidents
Set in the Science and Engineering Research Center, which specializes in the field of medical-engineering, of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Shuwa University, a fictional school, the story is focused on an associate professor (Dr. Segawa) and a student (Sasayama), with a young researcher and assistant professor (Dr. Maruyama) as an intermediary.
- #Medical-EngineeringCollaboration
- #Fabrication
- #Falsification
- #CollaborativeResearch
- #Supervisor-StudentRelationship
- #InformedConsent
- #ResponseToIncidents
Plagiarism
The main character is a university student named Yuko. Ever since her undergraduate days, she has thought of copying and pasting as a tool for efficiently writing reports.
- #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences
- #Plagiarism
- #Copy-Paste
- #IdeaAppropriation
- #Citation
- #SecondarySource
- #UnconsciousMisconduct
The story revolves around three university students who have coauthored an acclaimed collaborative research paper on proteins.
They get a notification saying that their joint paper was under suspicion of plagiarism and that the university's misconduct investigation committee was looking into it.
- #NaturalSciences
- #Plagiarism
- #Citation
- #Co-authoredPaper
- #Self-Plagiarism
- #Authorship
- #ResponsibleResearchCulture
Gray Zones in Research Activities
In the Ikeda lab at Nanyo University, while students work hard to write papers on their own research themes, each member of the lab faces problems related to research ethics issues, such as research data management, authorship, and duplicate submissions.
- #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences
- #QuestionableResearchPractices
- #DuplicateSubmission
- #PersonalInformationProtection
- #DataManagement
- #Self-Plagiarism
Associate Professor Fujita, of Shunsei University, an instructor who cares about her students, has been eagerly providing guidance on research ethics education and the submission of papers.
- #NaturalSciences
- #QuestionableResearchPractices
- #DuplicateSubmission
- #Self-Plagiarism
- #Authorship
- #SalamiSlicing
- #DataManagement
- #ImageEditing
Gray Zones in Research Activities 2
Assoc. Prof. Morishima's laboratory for a researcher or Prof. Tanabe laboratory for a career. Shimizu, who studied psychology at Meiritsu University, joined Morishima's laboratory for her PhD. She conducts a replicated experiment for writing her paper. However, Shimizu couldn't replicate the original results.
- #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences
- #QuestionableResearchPractices
- #DataAnalysis
- #HARKing
- #Reproducibility
- #InformedConsent
- #DataManagement
- #SupervisorStudentRelationship
Prof. Kanzaki, who researched developmental biology in graduate school at Seito University, found hope in joint research with data science. Shimura became in charge of the experiments. The initial results support Prof. Kanzaki's hypothesis, and these made Kanzaki and Shimura pleased. But the initial result became impossible to replicate.
- #NaturalSciences
- #QuestionableResearchPractices
- #DataAnalysis
- #DataManagement
- #FalsePositives
- #CherryPicking
- #Reproducibility
- #CollaborativeResearch
- #SupervisorStudentRelationship
- #ElectronicLabNotebook