RIA

Research Integrity Advisor D-MATL

Upholding research integrity is essential for ensuring trustworthy and high-quality scientific work at ETH Zurich and D-MTEC. The Research Integrity Advisor promotes a strong culture of responsible research through comprehensive education and training initiatives designed for researchers at all career stages, especially doctoral candidates.

The Research Integrity Advisor provides guidance on best practices in data management, authorship protocols, collaborative research frameworks, and conflict of interest identification. The role is designed to support and complement the professorships and labs in their own efforts to uphold high research integrity standards. The Research Integrity Advisor neither replaces these efforts nor intervenes in individual decisions within professorships, but instead provides additional institutional support and resources to strengthen the overall culture of responsible research.

As the D-MATL Research Integrity Advisor (RIA) I'll be happy to listen to your problem, especially if you are a member of the D-MATL. All to be discussed within a personal communication will remain strictly confidential. I am not in the position to make final decisions, but I can try to ask the right questions and contact, in case you prefer this, the other party, to find out if there is some common interest to solve the problem, or to highlight the principles of good scientific practise. Find below a number of documents that may help you in your assessment of the problem. I speak German (native) and English.

Prof. Dr. Martin Kröger, HCP F 48.2

D-MATL Course Catalogue

Research Integrity Culture

ETH Ethics Commission

ETH Reglements and Guidelines

Tip: Program codes written by unemployed students are generally NOT owned by ETH or its research groups. If a code was written within the context of a research project, the group leader should discuss and document the issue of ownership in an early stage of the project.

Authorship

Tip: At the start of a project, create a shared document (overleaf, google docs), invite potential coauthors, create an initial title and order of authors. All potential coauthors should be able to edit this document that should, in the course of time, develop to a full manuscript (including SI). Overleaf allows to track changes and to discuss the roles (including ordering) of author within this document so that all people working on this project are up-to-date at any time, can share their thoughts at any time, and can make sure that their contribution is tracked and documented. People upon the initial list of authors that do not significantly contribute to the contents of the manuscript, or do not contribute to the writing of the manuscript, should be removed from the list of authors. Each person that was initially on the list should have the chance to argue why he/she should stay on the list. Several documents below are available also from the website of the Research Integrity Office (UKRIO).

Further reading

Related ETH-specific documents
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