With little guidance offered to institutions and professional societies on how they should do their part in improving research integrity, "[h]ow researchers reading this [g]uide behave will heavily depend on that advice they are given by supervisors and peers on doing what they should do and responding to challenges".
Researchers in this sector believed that patents had a positive effect on subsequent innovations (by fostering R&D investment and information sharing among researchers and improving research productivity).
In this article, we review and critique the venture creation literature that has examined the role of the individual, with an eye toward identifying under-researched topics and improving research designs.
[Uhum2] Finally, a fifth theme addressed improving research methods and processes, such as improvements in the measurement of mental health and psychosocial well-being (e.g., psychiatric diagnostic procedures and appropriate indicators of well-being), as well as questions on how to improve MHPSS evaluation.
Research ethics committees face numerous obstacles to achieving their goal of improving research participant protection.
Gerald Koocher of Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues are developing an ethics manual for researchers; Koocher sees the document as potentially improving research integrity.
Reporting guidelines are easily perceived by researchers as bureaucratic exercises rather than means of improving research and reporting.
The MOS Strategic Projects Group focuses on improving research communication strategies among interdisciplinary research teams and between researchers and lay audiences.
The process and outcomes of peer review may be analyzed along two dimensions: 1) identifying scientific or technical content that is useful to other researchers (i.e., its "screening" function), and 2) improving research articles as tools for communication (i.e., its "improving" function).
YARD connects researchers, curators, and publishers through a single pipeline for the purpose of improving research transparency, reproducibility, and long-term use.
Sociologists appreciate his work on improving research methods in sociology.
