Guidelines & Information

• Digital imaging ethics guidelines
  by Lantz CR, Douglas W, Cromey MS - Cellular Imaging Facility Core, University of Arizona

• Image manipulation: CSI - cell biology
  Pearson H
  One of the initial articles bringing up the issue of image manipulation and scientific misconduct.
   
• Montreal statement on research integrity

• Wikipedia on scientific misconduct
   
• Code of Academic Integrity and Good Practice in the Conduct of Research of the University of Basel (Decreed by the Senate of the University of Basel on 2 November 2011)
  
  Faculty Confidants of the University of Basel (to contact in the case of Misconduct in Research)
   

Research Integrity Institutions

• Office of Research Integrity (ORI)

• European Network of Research Ethics and Research Integrity (ENRI)

• European Forum For Good Clinical Practice

Interactive Movie on Research Misconduct

• The LAB - Avoiding Research Misconduct
  In "The Lab: Avoiding Research Misconduct" you become the lead characters in an interactive movie and make decisions about integrity in research that can have long-term consequences. The simulation addresses Responsible Conduct of Research topics such as avoiding research misconduct, mentorship responsibilities, handling of data, responsible authorship, and questionable research practices.
• The Research Clinic
  In "The Research Clinic" you get to become a principal investigator, a clinical research coordinator, a research assistant, and an institutional review board (IRB) chair in a hospital and make decisions that affects the outcome of the story.

Recent Examples of Research Misconduct

• Retraction Watch - daily updated blog about current cases of scientific misconduct.
• PubPeer - a forum to discuss the problems of unreproducible, misleading, misconceived or fraudulent work.

• "Famous Examples" of Research Misconduct:
  1. The case of Olivier Voinnet (ETH & CNRS, 2015 ongoing)
     Also look at the details discussed on PubPeer
  2. The case of Haruko Obokata (2014)
  3. The case of Diederik Stapel (2011) - "The mind of a con man" form the NYT
  4. The case of Woo Suk Hwang and his co-author Gerald Schatten (2006)

Conferences on Research Integrity

• World Conferences on Research Integrity

Forensic tools

• ORI forensic tools
• Forensically - online image forensics tool
• InspectJ by Holger Lorentz (Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg)
  • Laborjournal Artikel über InspectJ