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Research integrity inquiry

Status: Closed Opened: 19 Dec 2016 Closed: 3 May 2017
Inquiry scopeThe Committee is undertaking an inquiry on the issues raised in the POSTnote (PDF 431 KB) , and following up the 2011 report (PDF 2.64 MB) . The previous Science and Technology Committee reported on '' Peer review in scientific publications (PDF 2.64 MB) ' in 2011, after which Universities UK coordinated the establishment of a ' Research Integrity Concordat '. The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) has recently published a POSTnote (PDF 431 KB) which discusses trends and developments on fraud, misconduct and mistakes in research and the publication of research results. It indicates that the trend in misconduct/mistakes in publishing is still upwards. There has also been a so-called 'crisis in reproducibility' of research.