class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide .title[ # Research Ethics ] .author[ ### Dr Thiyanga S. Talagala ] .author[ ### ] --- ## Ethical violations in research/ Research misconduct - Intentional plagiarism - Potential conflict of interest - Unintentional plagiarism - Data falsification - Data fabrication - Duplicate publication --- ## Ways of handling fraud - Rejected - Retracted Example:https://retractionwatch.com/retracted-coronavirus-covid-19-papers/ --- ## Obtain research approval - Ethical Review Board --- ## Sharing data - Include all the data that is **relevant** to your research question - Data sharing: supplementary data, share data in a public domain - Check data sharing guidelines --- ## Ethics in writing - Give credit to others work - Disclose the limits on your information - Use credible sources (Peer-reviewed journals and academic textbooks are considered to be credible sources.) For more information: https://www.kent.edu/stark/ethical-writing-reliable-sources#:~:text=Ethical%20writing%20is%20writing%20with,racist%2C%20homophobic%2C%20etc.) --- ## Salami Slicing - Breaking up a large study into two or more publications --- ## Submitting to journals - Do not submit the paper to multiple journals at the same time. --- ## Other - Authorship order (Before asking for assistance, tell your colleague about the authorship or acknowledgement) - Supervisory authorship - Referencing - Conflict of interest