Tie funding to research integrity

Universities should also establish and post clear rules about authorship, conflicts of interest and data management. For example, when administrators at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, determined that their faculty members were unaware of standard medical authorship rules, such as not allowing guest or ghost authorship, they posted a good set of rules on the web and circulated it to all faculty members. At the end of a year the university plans to follow up with an assessment to see whether the awareness and behaviour of its faculty members have changed.

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