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Cooperation & Liaison between Universities & Editors (CLUE): Recommendations on Best Practice

CLUE Working Group, View ORCID ProfileElizabeth Wager, View ORCID ProfileSabine Kleinert, View ORCID ProfileMichele Garfinkel, Volker Bahr, View ORCID ProfileKsenija Bazdaric, Michael Farthing, View ORCID ProfileChris Graf, View ORCID ProfileZoë Hammatt, View ORCID ProfileLyn Horn, View ORCID ProfileSusan King, Debra Parrish, View ORCID ProfileBernd Pulverer, View ORCID ProfilePaul Taylor, View ORCID ProfileGerrit van Meer
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/139170
1Sideview, Princes Risborough, UK
Elizabeth Wager
1Sideview, Princes Risborough, UK
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Sabine Kleinert
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Michele Garfinkel
3EMBO, Heidelberg, Germany
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Volker Bahr
4Charite, Berlin, Germany (until 2016, now retired)
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Ksenija Bazdaric
5University of Rijeka, Croatia
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Michael Farthing
6University of Sussex (until 2016, now at University College London), UK
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Chris Graf
7Wiley / Committee on Publication Ethics, UK
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Zoë Hammatt
8Office of Research Integrity, Rockville, MD (until 2016, now at Z Consulting), USA
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Lyn Horn
9Stellenbosch University (now at University of Cape Town), South Africa
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Susan King
10Rockefeller University Press, New York, USA
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Debra Parrish
11Parrish Law Offices, Pittsburgh, USA
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Bernd Pulverer
12EMBO Journal, Heidelberg, Germany
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13RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
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14Utrecht University, Netherlands
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Summary

Journals and research institutions have common interests regarding the trustworthiness of research publications but their specific roles and responsibilities differ. These draft recommendations aim to address issues surrounding cooperation and liaison between journals and institutions about possible and actual problems with reported research. The proposals will be discussed at various meetings including the World Conference on Research Integrity in May 2017. We will also consider comments and suggestions posted on this preprint.

The main recommendations are that:

  • National registers of individuals or departments responsible for research integrity at institutions should be created.

  • Institutions should develop mechanisms for assessing the validity of research reports that are independent from processes to determine whether individual researchers have committed misconduct.

  • Essential research data and peer review records should be retained for at least 10 years.

  • While journals should normally raise concerns with authors in the first instance, they also need criteria to determine when to contact the institution before, or at the same time as, alerting the authors in cases of suspected data fabrication or falsification to prevent the destruction of evidence.

  • Anonymous or pseudonymous allegations made to journals or institutions should be judged on their merit and not dismissed automatically.

  • Institutions should release relevant sections of reports of research trustworthiness or misconduct investigations to all journals that have published research that was the subject of the investigation.

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Cooperation & Liaison between Universities & Editors (CLUE): Recommendations on Best Practice
CLUE Working Group, Elizabeth Wager, Sabine Kleinert, Michele Garfinkel, Volker Bahr, Ksenija Bazdaric, Michael Farthing, Chris Graf, Zoë Hammatt, Lyn Horn, Susan King, Debra Parrish, Bernd Pulverer, Paul Taylor, Gerrit van Meer
bioRxiv 139170; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/139170
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Cooperation & Liaison between Universities & Editors (CLUE): Recommendations on Best Practice
CLUE Working Group, Elizabeth Wager, Sabine Kleinert, Michele Garfinkel, Volker Bahr, Ksenija Bazdaric, Michael Farthing, Chris Graf, Zoë Hammatt, Lyn Horn, Susan King, Debra Parrish, Bernd Pulverer, Paul Taylor, Gerrit van Meer
bioRxiv 139170; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/139170

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