Background We stated in a recent article discussing the federal Office of Research Integrity (ORI) that, were they to actually act as a real audit entity, then their also acting as a consulting function for the same institutions could produce a conflict of interest (COI). (“The Essential Need for Research Misconduct Allegation Audits”, Science and […]
Our manuscript on the importance of employing professional audit principles in the oversight of the U.S. research misconduct investigations, which we originally published in PeerJ Preprints in December 2015, has now been published by Science and Engineering Ethics (“SEE”), a Springer journal. The core of the article remained unchanged from the preprint. At the request […]
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