Scientific integrity issues in environmental toxicology and chemistry: Improving research transparency, reproducibility, and credibility
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
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Abstract
High‐profile reports of detrimental scientific practices leading to retractions in the scientific literature contribute to lack of trust in scientific experts. Although the bulk of these have been in the literature of other disciplines, environmental toxicology and chemistry are not free from problems. While we believe that egregious misconduct such as fraud, fabrication of data, or plagiarism is rare, scientific integrity is much broader than the absence of misconduct. We are more concerned with more commonly encountered and nuanced issues such as poor reliability and bias. We review a range of topics including conflicts of interests, competing interests, some particularly challenging situations, reproducibility, bias, and other attributes of ecotoxicological studies that enhance or detract from scientific credibility. Our vision of scientific integrity encourages a self‐correcting culture that promotes scientific rigor, relevant reproducible research, transparency in competing interests, methods and results, and education.
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Mebane, C.A., Anne Fairbrother, Augspurger, T., Canfield, T.J., Goodfellow, W., Guiney, P., LeHuray, A., Maltby, L., Mayfield, D., McLaughlin, M., Lisa Ortego, Schlekat, T., Scroggins, R.P., Sumpter, J., Tim Verslycke, 2019, Scientific integrity issues in environmental toxicology and chemistry: Improving research transparency, reproducibility, and credibility: Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, v. 15, no. 3, p. 320-344, https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4119.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Scientific integrity issues in environmental toxicology and chemistry: Improving research transparency, reproducibility, and credibility |
| Series title | Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management |
| DOI | 10.1002/ieam.4119 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication Date | January 04, 2019 |
| Year Published | 2019 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Contributing office(s) | Idaho Water Science Center |
| Description | 25 p. |
| First page | 320 |
| Last page | 344 |