Appropriate ways of curbing the incidence of scientific misconduct.
1.Set standards for supervision of all testing as a mitigation measure is a critical that leadership
sets expectations of every member of a research team regarding the need for transparency among
team members particularly in a research setting.
2.Establishing and ensuring policies governing academic research are adhered to-effected by
ensuring everyone in the research environment knows they have a role in protecting research
integrity. Additionally, when people trust when their concerns will be hard and acted upon they
are more likely to be willing to share feedback internally for investigations rather than
outsourcing agencies.
3.Process rigor enforcement – making sure that each researcher and assistant understands the
level of detail needed and potentially provided examples of samples book entries for members
within the research community to view.
4.Creating the right environment- as a mitigation measure we ought to take time to evaluate our
institution research and grant access processes based on these best practices and work quickly to
close any gaps. This preparation will help protect the quality of the research conducted as well as
the reputation of the institution.
5. Integrating technology in detecting acts of misconduct- violations such as plagiarism ought to
be countered by use of plagiarism detection software flags most instances of unoriginal text,
allowing you to quickly identify missing citations.
6. Creating awareness about the responsible conduct of research; this can ideally be met through
a series of activities from, training students, faculty researcher to use plagiarism detection tools
and reference management tools to establishing an institutional mechanism through educational
and training to facilitate responsible conduct of research, plagiarism deterrence and dissertation.
7. Institutionalization of investigative procedures for handling cases of alleged misconduct is
often a recommended measure to counter scientific misconduct –fair and public investigate
procedures provide a structure for judging the facts of the case so that appropriate penalties can
actually be met out.
8. The extent to which sanctions prevent further incidents of scientific misconduct still lies as an
empirical question. Institutional investigational procedures, monetary disincentives, firing the
guilty party, may actually have a preventive effect by endangering second thoughts about
committing misconduct.
9. Paraphrasing, for instance as a violation can be countered by making sure that we change the
words and how sentences are put together. Clearly outlining which arguments of our essays are
based on other people’s hard work and whose work we have used goes a long way in curbing the
malpractice.