A survey carried out at the UJI shows concern about matters related to professional ethics in scientific and technical research



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## A survey carried out at the UJI shows concern about matters related to professional ethics in scientific and technical research

13/01/2022 |
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A survey carried out by the Office for the Promotion and Assessment of Quality (OPAQ), in which 539 members of the research staff of the Universitat Jaume I (52.33% of the total population) participated, shows the concern of this group about matters related to professional ethics in scientific and technical research. More than 80% of those surveyed are concerned about inappropriate practices in their area of knowledge, although the percentage drops to 67.35% when referring to research within the university itself. The use of personal influence for personal gain (41%), abuse of power towards researchers in lower positions (26.53%), lax supervision of doctoral theses (26.35%), duplicate publication (21%), false participation in projects (19.85%) and fraudulent review (19.48%) are the most widely perceived malpractices.

These data are no exception for this type of study. Sociological research has been pointing to this for some time and points to the promotion of the culture known as "public or perish" as a possible cause, i.e. a culture that promotes the curriculum by the weight of the number of publications in high-impact journals and which has generated a debate in academia for some years now. Research staff at the Universitat Jaume I seem to agree with this assessment and point to personal ambitions (48.23%) and the existing scientific evaluation policy in Spain (44.34%) as the main causes of the proliferation of bad practices.

The survey also shows a high awareness among research staff of issues such as open access, gender perspective and integrity in research processes. However, the researchers themselves recognise in their responses a certain lack of training on some of these key points of research ethics, as well as on the Universitat Jaume I's own ethical governance structure. It should be noted that the best known instrument is the ethical code, with 41.93% of respondents indicating this, while the ethical line is the least known, with only 2.60% of respondents identifying it.

Given these data, the Vice-Rector's Office for Research and Transfer, in collaboration with the European project ETHNA System, is going to promote during 2022 the development of the code of good research practices of the UJI, as well as the redefinition of some of its ethical governance structures. This objective, which is framed within the HR Excellence in Research (hrs4r) quality accreditation process and the principles of the European Charter, will be developed through a collaborative process with the participation of experts from the Universitat Jaume I.

The code, which will be approved before the end of the current academic year, will include the commitments of the institution and the research community in areas such as open access, scientific integrity, public commitment and gender equality in research. For its definition, the university will initiate a collaborative process in which experts in each area will be involved.

The results of the survey are published in open access at <https://www.uji.es/serveis/opaq/base/gestio-qualitat/mesurament-resultats/informeeticainvestigacion_21.pdf>

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