1. Technology, Research Ethics Seminar 1 Group 3: Ping Sui;Marc Girons Lopez; Erika Jansson ; Jie Yang; Zeeshan Khaliq

2. Marc Hydrology Erika Environmental Toxicology Zeeshan Bioinformatics Jie Organic Chemitry Ping Analytical Chemistry Animal model Environment pollution Collaboration Publishing Research Result

3. Transmission of new knowledge to the wider society

4. Novelty vs replicability “Learning something new advances that goal [of science]; reaffirming something known does not”. “replication studies were not included as examples of research encouraged for submission in the editorial policy” – Replication studies were deemed “not newsworthy” and a “waste of space” Marc Girons Lopez, Hydrology

5. Novelty vs replicability But… – Many published results have uncertain truth value – Publishing a result does not make it true! Replication is a means of increasing the confidence in the truth value of a claim Without replication studies, when false results get published they are difficult to expel Marc Girons Lopez, Hydrology

6. Authors’ responsibility Who should be listed as an author and who should not be? An person providing you expertize/analyses that strenghen the results in the paper but is in other aspects not involved? Master-students? Erika Jansson, Environmental Toxicology Erika Jansson, Environmental Toxicology

7. Authors’ responsibility Who are responsible for the content of the paper? Are everyone equally responsible? Should all authors of a paper be able to defend the work? Erika Jansson, Environmental Toxicology Erika Jansson, Environmental Toxicology

8. 1.original publication in online journal 2.supplementary publication Jie Yang, Organic Chemitry Electronic publishing

9. Advantages: 1. quickly present results and easily accessible 2. available to ‘poor’ researchers Disadvantages: cost of electronic publishing Open access to publication Jie Yang, Organic Chemitry

10. Publication as a measure of worth There is usually a temptation to break down research in smaller parts The goal is to publish each part separately in order to get more publications Is it a good research practice? – Not unless you have concrete reasons to do so – Because it make the whole research difficult to understand Zeeshan Khaliq, Bioinformatics

11. Publication as a measure of worth What’s a good research practice? A good practice is to try to publish the results as a whole. Otherwise, you must have clear reasons for it and must give cross references The quality of the research should be evaluated rather than the quantity It can be achieved by counting citations rather than number of publications Zeeshan Khaliq, Bioinformatics

12. Summary Publication should transmit new knowledge to the wider society Novelty and positive results are vital for publish ability, not for truth. The practices varies regarding the inclusive criteria and the order of authorship on the paper. A large number of publications does not make a researcher better than another in terms of research. The quality of research does.