research ethics

• Honesty: Do not fabricate, falsify, or misrepresent data. Do not deceive colleagues, research sponsors, or the public.
• Objectivity: Strive to avoid bias
• Integrity: strive for consistency of thought and action.
• Carefulness: carefully and critically examine your own work and the work of your peers.
• Openness: Share data, results, ideas, tools, and resources.
• Transparency: Disclose methods, materials, assumptions, analyses, and other information needed to evaluate your research.
• Accountability Take responsibility for your part in research and be prepared to give an account
• Intellectual Property: Do not use unpublished data, methods, or results without permission.
• Confidentiality: Protect confidential communications, such as papers or grants submitted for publication, personnel records, trade or military secrets, and patient records.
• Responsible Publication: Publish in order to advance research and scholarship, not to advance just your own career.
• Responsible Mentoring: Help to educate, mentor, and advise students and allow them to make their own decisions.
• Respect for Colleagues: Respect your colleagues and treat them fairly
• Social Responsibility: Strive to promote social good and prevent or mitigate social harms through research, public education, and advocacy.
• Non-Discrimination: Avoid discrimination against colleagues or students on the basis or other factors not related to scientific competence and integrity.
• Competence: Maintain and improve your own professional competence and expertise through lifelong education and learning
• Legality: Know and obey relevant laws and institutional and governmental policies.
• Animal Care: Show proper respect and care for animals when using them in research.
• Human Subjects Protection: When conducting research on human subjects, minimize harms take special precautions with vulnerable populations; and strive to distribute the benefits and burdens of research fairly.