Journal Article

The Hong Kong Principles for assessing researchers: Fostering research integrity

Moher, David, Sham, Mai Har, Foeger, Nicole, Coriat, Anne-Marie, Dirnagl, Ulrich, Bouter, Lex, Glasziou, Paul, Barbour, Virginia, Kleinert, Sabine

2020

Overview

For knowledge to benefit research and society, it must be trustworthy. Trustworthy research is robust, rigorous, and transparent at all stages of design, execution, and reporting. Assessment of researchers still rarely includes considerations related to trustworthiness, rigor, and transparency. We have developed the Hong Kong Principles (HKPs) as part of the 6th World Conference on Research Integrity with a specific focus on the need to drive research improvement through ensuring that researchers are explicitly recognized and rewarded for behaviors that strengthen research integrity. We present five principles: responsible research practices; transparent reporting; open science (open research); valuing a diversity of types of research; and recognizing all contributions to research and scholarly activity. For each principle, we provide a rationale for its inclusion and provide examples where these principles are already being adopted.

• Publisher: Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subject: Computer and Information Sciences / Conferences, meetings and seminars / Epidemiology / Ethics, Research / Hong Kong / Humans / Information sharing / Integrity / Laboratory animals / Medical research / Mentoring / Peer Review, Research / Principles / Qualitative research / Reporting / Research and Analysis Methods / Research Personnel / Research Report / Research validity / Researchers / Science Policy / Social Sciences / Society / Trustworthiness