OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Mitigating global climate change and its environmental impact is a key social responsibility of scientists and should be part of research ethics policies and guidelines	138
On the epistemological and methodological implications of AI co-authorship	90
OHSU Employees’ Opinions of Receipt of Clinical Care and Participation in Clinical Research at Place of Employment	41
The case for affiliation contribution statements	40
Replication and trustworthiness	35
Challenges for enforcing editorial policies on AI-generated papers	27
Inclusive, engaged, and accountable institutional review boards	25
Ethical committee frameworks and processes used to evaluate humanities research require reform: Findings from a UK-wide network consultation	23
Misinterpretation of statistical nonsignificance as a sign of potential bias: Hydroxychloroquine as a case study	22
Exploring scientific misconduct in Morocco based on an analysis of plagiarism perception in a cohort of 1,220 researchers and students	21
Addressing serious and continuing research noncompliance and integrity violations through action plans: Interviews with institutional officials	20
Fake no more: The redemption of ChatGPT in literature reviews	19
Taking it back: A pilot study of a rubric measuring retraction notice quality	19
Retraction according to gender: A descriptive study	18
Reducing tensions and expediting manuscript submission via an authorship agreement for early-career researchers: A pilot study	15
Correction	15
Manifestations of research ethics and integrity leadership in national surveys – cases of Estonia, Finland, Norway, France and the Netherlands	14
A comprehensive ethics and data governance framework for data-intensive health research: Lessons from an Italian cancer research institute	13
Analysis of scientific paper retractions due to data problems: Revealing challenges and countermeasures in data management	13
Inverted U-Shaped relationship between team size and citation impact: Mediating role of responsibility diffusion	13
How (not) to be held accountable in research: A reply to my critics	13
Comparing the performance of Retraction Watch Database, PubMed, and Web of Science in identifying retracted publications in medicine	13
A comprehensive overview of studies that assessed article retractions within the biomedical sciences	12
Procrastination and inconsistency: Expressions of concern for publications with compromised integrity	12
Perceptions of network-level ethics in an engineering research center: Analysis of ethical issues & practices reported by scientific & engineering participants	12

Characteristics of blacklisted journals: Evidence from Chinese-language academic journals	12
Does YouTube promote research ethics and conduct? A content analysis of Youtube Videos and analysis of sentiments through viewers comments	11
Institutional policies on plagiarism management:A comparison of universities in mainland China and Hong Kong	11
Typology of conflict of commitment (COC) in the era of inappropriate foreign influence in research	11
For the “good of the lab”: Insights from three focus groups concerning the ethics of managing a laboratory or research group	11
Status bias in Chinese scholarly publishing: an exploratory study based on mixed methods	11
Creating research ethics and integrity country report cards: Case study from Europe	10
How to write a good embedded ethics letter	10
A structural equation model for cyber academic dishonesty in higher education: Evidence from Taiwan	10
The author expression of concern (AEOC): A proposed formal mechanism to allow authors’ legitimate concerns to be heard, and their rights and voices to be respected	10
How to embed ethics into laboratory research	10
In defense of the ICMJE authorship guideline, a rejoinder to Curzer	10
Retraction (mal)practices of elite marketing and social psychology journals in the Dirk Smeesters’ research misconduct case	9
Superb supervision: A pilot study on training supervisors to convey responsible research practices onto their PhD candidates	9
Rethinking the author name ambiguity problem and beyond: The case of the Chinese context	9
How do researchers perceive research misbehaviors? A case study of Indian researchers	9
Fabrication in a study about honesty: A lost episode of columbo illustrating how forensic statistics is performed	9
Industry effects on evidence: a case study of long-acting injectable antipsychotics	9
COI works both ways: Investigation of misconduct by an independent research integrity organization is the way to go	9
Leadership, management, and team practices in research labs: Development and validation of two new measures	9
‘I don’t believe in the neutrality of research. OK?’ Mapping researchers’ attitudes toward values in science	8
Scientific priorities and relational dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study	8
Are the lists of questionable journals reasonable: A case study of early warning journal lists	8
Mapping nine decades of research integrity studies (1935–2024): A scientometric analysis	8
Disclosing artificial intelligence use in scientific research and publication: When should disclosure be mandatory, optional, or unnecessary?	8
Teaching research integrity as discussed in research integrity codes: A systematic literature review	8
Keeping the health of our home planet in mind as we do research	7
Incorporating replication in higher education: Supervisors’ perspectives and institutional pressures	7
‘Special issue-ization’ as a growth and revenue strategy: Reproduction by the “big five” and the risks for research integrity	7
The consistency of peer-reviewers and the process of commensuration: a comment on Bolek et al. (2022)	7
Reflections on the 2024 Final Rule on Public Health Service Policies on Research Misconduct	7
Publishing in potentially predatory journals: Do universities adopt university leaders’ dishonest behavior?	7
Evolution and characterization of health sciences paper retractions in Brazil and Portugal	6
The research literature is an unsafe workplace	6
Timing and monitoring of financial disclosures in publications: A cross-institutional assessment of financial conflict of interest reports	6
The use of text-matching software’s similarity scores	6
AI, reviewer incentives, and questions raised by García et al.	6
Spin in randomized controlled trials of pharmacology in COVID-19: A systematic review	6
Using AI to write scholarly publications	6
The case for compensating peer reviewers: A response to Moher and Vieira Armond	6
Nonfinancial conflict of interest in peer-review: Some notes for discussion	6
Self-plagiarism: A retrospective study of its prevalence and patterns across scientific disciplines	6
It takes two flints to start a fire: A focus group study into PhD supervision for responsible research	5
The punishment intensity for research misconduct and its related factors: An exploratory study on hospitals in Mainland China	5
Student views on the culture of STEM research laboratories: Results from an interview study	5
Time-based changes in authorship trend in research-intensive universities in Malaysia	5
Evaluating the effectiveness of a Delphi-validated educational video in enhancing awareness and understanding of predatory journals among residents and medical students	5
The case for universal artificial intelligence declaration on the precedent of conflict of interest	5
“Dear Editor, may I speak with you?“	5
More ethics in the laboratory, please! Scientists’ perspectives on ethics in the preclinical phase	5

On “intent” in research misconduct	5
Group authorship, an excellent opportunity laced with ethical, legal and technical challenges	5
Limits of ethical non-human subjects research in an applied setting	5
Research integrity in Spain: Great expectations, mediocre results	4
Is AI my co-author? The ethics of using artificial intelligence in scientific publishing	4
Harness editors’ networks of communication to fight publication fraud	4
The justified limits of transparency in research misconduct reports	4
The trinity of good research: Distinguishing between research integrity, ethics, and governance	4
Responding to research misconduct allegations brought against top university officials	4
In Defense of the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity: Response to Radder	4
The PubPeer conundrum: Administrative challenges in research misconduct proceedings	4
Is requiring Research Integrity Advisors a useful policy for improving research integrity? A census of advisors in Australia	4
Bad apples or systematic problem? Is Italy struggling with maintaining high level of research integrity?	4
What is the sensitivity and specificity of the peer review process?	4
Perceptions of publication pressure among Hungarian researchers: Differences across career stage, gender, and scientific field	4
Can ChatGPT be trusted to provide reliable estimates?	4
Development of consensus on essential virtues for ethics and research integrity training using a modified Delphi approach	4
Cancer researchers’ experiences with and perceptions of research data sharing: Results of a cross-sectional survey	3
Maintaining ethics, Integrity, and accountability: Best practices for reporting a meta-analysis	3
In Memoriam Dr. Sheldon Krimsky	3
Using co-creation methods for research integrity guideline development – how, what, why and when?	3
Assessment criteria for research misconduct: Taiwanese researchers’ perceptions	3
Extent of publishing in predatory journals by academics in higher education institutions in Zimbabwe: A case study of a university	3
The core epistemic responsibilities of universities: Results from a Delphi study	3
The consistency of peer-reviewers: Assessment of separate parts of the manuscripts vs final recommendations	3
Are there accurate and legitimate ways to machine-quantify predatoriness, or an urgent need for an automated online tool?	3
A policy toolkit for authorship and dissemination policies may benefit NIH research consortia	3
Evolution of retracted publications in the medical sciences: Citations analysis, bibliometrics, and altmetrics trends	3
Open science, the replication crisis, and environmental public health	3
Why research integrity matters and how it can be improved	3
Peer review experiences of academic chemists in Ph.D. granting institutions in the United States	3
Research data mismanagement – from questionable research practice to research misconduct	3
The definition of research misconduct should be stated in the abstract when reporting research on research misconduct	3
How (not) to be held accountable in research: The case of the Dutch integrity code	3
Importance of considering historical contexts when selecting terminology for questionable journal list names	3
Why do master’s students of humanities and social sciences publish papers in Chinese-language predatory journals? A qualitative study based on Grounded Theory	3
Assessment of the knowledge and attitudes of the Iranian medical faculty toward plagiarism	3
A practitioner-centered policy roadmap for ethical computational social science in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland	3
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding plagiarism of postgraduate students in Myanmar	2
Correction	2
Why and how to incorporate issues of race/ethnicity and gender in research integrity education	2
AI vs academia: Experimental study on AI text detectors’ accuracy in behavioral health academic writing	2
Correction	2
Training undergraduate students in HIPAA compliance	2
AI, originality, and attribution: Researchers’ perspectives on distinguishing contributions	2
Research anomalies in criminology: How serious? How extensive over time? And who was responsible?	2
Citation bias, diversity, and ethics	2
Perception of organizational climate by university staff and students in medicine and humanities: A qualitative study	2
Peer reviewer fatigue, or peer reviewer refusal?	2
Appropriate inclusion of adult research participants with intellectual disability: an in-depth review of guidelines and policy statements	2
Perspectives on non-financial conflicts of interest in health-related journals: A scoping review	2
Transferring rejected manuscripts to other journals: A good practice?	2
A data mining-based study on academic publication retractions in the 21st Century	2
Messing with Merton: The intersection between open science practices and Mertonian values	2
Not so fast with fast funding	2
Open minds, tied hands: Awareness, behavior, and reasoning on open science and irresponsible research behavior	2
Self-retraction as redemption: Forgiveness for repentant authors	2
Author academic influence and manuscript acceptance: Evidence from peer review in cell press journals	2
Status of animal experimentation in nutrition and dietetic research: Policies of 100 leading journals and new approach methodologies	2
Evidence-based literature review, not the meta-analysis: A rejoinder	2
On the (ab)use of special issues in scholarly journals	2
How can research institutions support responsible supervision and leadership?	2
Developing, implementing, and transferring a faculty-led RCR training program	2