Ethical Dilemmas in Research Integrity
What would you do if faced with a difficult issue in research integrity? There are no right or wrong answers, but your opinion will surely help others to make their best choice. Browse the dilemmas by category and click to respond with your views about each.











 

Attribution of Mentored Research

You are writing a book chapter describing recent advances in your field.  One of your graduate students made significant progress.  Using ideas that you conceived, he designed and ran experiments without supervision, interpreted the results without assistance, and wrote several important papers that were published citing him as the primary author and you as the only coauthor.  In your book, should you attribute these advances to you first and then him?  To him first and then you?  Or to him and unnamed associates?

K5R says:  In most book chapters that I am familiar with, the authors use "we" or "in our laboratory" or "in collaboration with X, we found...." rather than using one person's name or the author's own name.  Research is always a plural rather than singular effort.


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