Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Research Ethics for Scientists is about best practices in all the major areas of research management and practice that are common to scientific researchers, especially those in academia. Aimed towards the younger scientist, the book critically examines the key areas that continue to plague even experienced and well-meaning science professionals.

For ease of use, the book is arranged in functional themes and units that every scientist recognizes as crucial for sustained success in science; ideas, people, data, publications and funding. These key themes will help to highlight the elements of successful and ethical research as well as challenging the reader to develop their own ideas of how to conduct themselves within their work.

Tackles the ethical issues of being a scientist rather than the ethical questions raised by science itself

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. xi)
• Acknowledgements and Dedication (p. xiii)
• Chapter 1 Research Ethics: The Best Ethical Practices Produce the Best Science (p. 1)
• Judge yourself (p. 4)
• Morality vs ethics (p. 4)
• Inauspicious beginnings (p. 6)
• How science works (p. 7)
• Summary (p. 9)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 9)
• Chapter 2 How Corrupt is Science? (p. 11)
• Judge yourself (p. 12)
• "Scientists behaving badly" (p. 12)
• Do scientists behave worse with experience? (p. 14)
• Judge yourself (p. 15)
• Crime and punishment (p. 15)
• Judge yourself (p. 17)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 18)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 19)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 19)
• Summary (p. 20)
• Chapter 3 Plagiarise and Perish (p. 21)
• Ideas (p. 23)
• Sentences (p. 23)
• Phrases (p. 23)
• A hoppy example (p. 24)
• What is plagiarism, really? (p. 24)
• Judge yourself (p. 25)
• How many consecutive identical and uncited words constitute plagiarism? (p. 25)
• Self-plagiarism and recycling (p. 26)
• Judge yourself (p. 27)
• Judge yourself (p. 31)
• Tools to discover plagiarism (p. 33)
• Self-plagiarism and ethics revisited (p. 34)
• Judge yourself (p. 34)
• Is plagiarism getting worse? (p. 35)
• The case of the plagiarising graduate student (p. 35)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 36)
• v Judge yourself redux (p. 37)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 37)
• Summary (p. 38)
• Chapter 4 Finding the Perfect Mentor (p. 39)
• Caveat (p. 40)
• Choosing a mentor (p. 40)
• Judge yourself (p. 43)
• Choosing a graduate project (p. 46)
• Judge yourself (p. 47)
• Mentors for assistant professors (p. 47)
• How to train your mentor (p. 52)
• Choosing the right research project: the new graduate student's dilemma (p. 54)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 56)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 56)
• Summary (p. 56)
• Chapter 5 Becoming the Perfect Mentor (p. 57)
• Grants and contracts are a prerequisite to productive science (p. 57)
• Judge yourself (p. 58)
• Publications are the fruit of research (p. 59)
• On a personal level (p. 59)
• Judge yourself (p. 60)
• Common and predictable mistakes scientist make at key stages in their training and careers and how being a good mentor can make improvements (p. 60)
• Questions (p. 70)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 71)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 71)
• Summary (p. 72)
• Chapter 6 Research Misconduct: Fabricating Data (p. 73)
• Why cheat? (p. 74)
• Judge yourself (p. 76)
• The case of Jan Hendrick Schön, "Plastic Fantastic" (p. 76)
• The case of Woo-Suk Hwang: dog cloner, data fabricator (p. 77)
• Judge yourself (p. 78)
• Detection of image and data misrepresentation (p. 78)
• Judge yourself (p. 81)
• Neither here nor there - the curious case of Homme Hellinga (p. 81)
• Judge yourself (p. 83)
• Lessons learnt (p. 83)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 84)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 84)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 84)
• Summary (p. 85)
• Chapter 7 Research Misconduct: Falsification and Whistleblowing (p. 87)
• A "can of worms" indeed: the case of Elizabeth "Betsy" Goodwin (p. 89)
• Judge yourself (p. 91)
• Judge yourself (p. 92)
• Judge yourself (p. 94)
• Judge yourself (p. 98)
• Deal with ethical quandaries informally if possible (p. 99)
• Judge yourself (p. 100)
• Cultivating a culture of openness, integrity, and accountability (p. 100)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 101)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 102)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 102)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 102)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 103)
• Summary (p. 103)
• Chapter 8 Authorship: Who's an Author on a Scientific Paper and Why (p. 105)
• The importance of the scientific publication (p. 106)
• Judge yourself (p. 107)
• Who should be listed as an author on a scientific paper? (p. 107)
• Judge yourself (p. 109)
• How to avoid author quandaries (p. 110)
• Authorship for works other than research papers (p. 111)
• The difference between authorship on scientific papers and inventorship on patents (p. 112)
• Other thoughts on authorship and publications (p. 113)
• Judge yourself (p. 114)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 118)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 118)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 119)
• Summary (p. 119)
• Chapter 9 Grant Proposals: Ethics and Success Intertwined (p. 121)
• Why funding is crucial (p. 121)
• Judge yourself (p. 125)
• Path to success in funding (p. 125)
• Fair play and collaboration (p. 126)
• Judge yourself (p. 126)
• Judge yourself (p. 128)
• Recordkeeping and fiscal responsibility (p. 128)
• Pushing the limits on proposals (p. 129)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 133)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 133)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 134)
• Summary (p. 134)
• Chapter 10 Peer Review and The Ethics of Privileged Information (p. 135)
• The history of peer review (p. 135)
• The nature of journals and the purpose of peer review (p. 136)
• Which papers to review? (p. 140)
• Anonymity (p. 140)
• Judge yourself (p. 141)
• Grant proposals (p. 141)
• Confidentiality and privileged information (p. 142)
• Reviewers (p. 143)
• Judge yourself (p. 143)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 145)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 145)
• Summary (p. 146)
• Chapter 11 Data and Data Management: The Ethics of Data (p. 147)
• Stewardship of data (p. 148)
• Judge yourself (p. 149)
• Judge yourself (p. 153)
• Judge yourself (p. 156)
• The land of in-between: ethics of data presented at professional meetings (p. 156)
• Judge yourself (p. 159)
• Future of data management (p. 160)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 160)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 160)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 161)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 161)
• Summary (p. 161)
• Chapter 12 Conflicts of Interest (p. 163)
• The dynamic landscape of conflicts of interest (p. 164)
• Potential conflicts of interest for university scientists (p. 165)
• Judge yourself (p. 169)
• Conflicts of interest within labs or universities (p. 169)
• Judge yourself (p. 170)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 177)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 177)
• Summary (p. 177)
• Chapter 13 What Kind of Research Science World Do We Want? (p. 179)
• "A culture of discipline and an ethic of entrepreneurship" (p. 180)
• Judge yourself (p. 181)
• Too much pressure? (p. 181)
• Integrity awareness through ethics education (p. 184)
• Accountability (p. 185)
• We scientists (p. 185)
• Judge yourself redux (p. 186)
• Summary (p. 187)
• Appendix (p. 189)
• References (p. 203)
• Index (p. 209)

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