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Should research administrators be regulated as carefully as researchers?
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BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology [Bioessays] 2024 Jun; Vol. 46 (6), pp. e2300196. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 27. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This essay assesses the rationale for regulating research administrators as carefully as they regulate researchers. The reasons for such regulation are identical: protecting scientific integrity, ensuring responsible use of public funds, addressing the lack of effective recourse for victims, creating negative consequences for misbehaving actors, and addressing high incentives for misconduct. Whereas the reasons compelling us to regulate research administrators are obvious, counterarguments to administrative oversight are based on suggestions that the incidence and prevalence of cases of administrative misconduct are too low to warrant formal regulation. I briefly describe examples of the phenomenon drawn from publicly available records. My analysis suggests that the misconduct of research administrators is both serious and worthy of better oversight. Improved oversight of research administration will help steward tax dollars appropriately and enhance the overall integrity of the scientific record and of the free pursuit of knowledge more generally.<br /> (© 2024 Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
- Subjects :
- Humans
Scientific Misconduct
Administrative Personnel
Research
Research Personnel
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1521-1878
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 38537114
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202300196