Research Ethics

Updated 17 Sep 2026

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What it is
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  principles and practices for conducting research responsibly toward participants, communities, collaborators, and teh scientific record
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Considerations
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  appropriate consent and permissions
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  proportionate collection of personal or sensitive data
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  controlled access, secure storage, and retention decisions
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  honest reporting, attribution, and dataset-license compliance
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Caution
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  replacing a name with an identifier does not necessarily anonymize a dataset if people remain identifiable or a linking key exists
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  public availability of data does not automatically permit every research use or unrestricted redistribution
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Research integrity
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  do not fabricate results, conceal inconvenient findings, or describe expected results as observations
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Related
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  Privacy
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  Computational Reproducibility

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