About this journal

Accountability in Research is devoted to the examination and critical analysis of practices and systems for promoting integrity in the conduct of research. It provides an interdisciplinary, international forum for the development of ethics, procedures, standards, policies, and concepts to encourage the ethical conduct of research and to enhance the validity of research results.

The journal welcomes original work on advancing research integrity in the form of empirical research, conceptual assessment, and critical analysis in all fields of science, including biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, law, economics, statistics, management studies, public policy, politics, sociology, history, psychology, philosophy, ethics, and information science. The journal seeks to publish research that makes a significant contribution to the literature and advances knowledge of accountability and integrity in research. With some exceptions, the journal is not interested in publishing studies that merely duplicate previous work or are limited in generalizability (e.g., due to problems with statistical design or research focus) or that do not meaningfully contribute to the scholarly literature.

While the journal seeks to advance accountability and integrity in research, it is not a forum for attempting to adjudicate complaints about specific cases involving individual researchers, academic institutions, journals, or research sponsors.

All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double-anonymized (some reviewers opt to have their identity known, however) and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.

Accountability in Research accepts the following types of articles:

• Original Articles
• Letter to the Editor
• Commentary

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Articles

• Should be no more than 6,000 words.
• Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
• Should contain between 2 and 5 keywords.

Letter to the Editor

• Should be confined to responses to important issues addressed in an article published recently in Accountability in Research .
• Should have no or very few references
• Should be no more than 500 words.

Commentary

• Should address a compelling public issue of concern in research or an article published in the journal. A Commentary will be subject to the regular peer review process.
• Should be no more than 1500 words.
• Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
• Should contain between 2 and 5 keywords.

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EDITOR IN CHIEF

Lisa M. Rasmussen, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Philosophy
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001, USA
lrasmuss@uncc.edu

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

David B. Resnik, Ph.D.
Associate Editor for “Normative Ethics” and Letters to the Editor
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
E-mail: resnikd@niehs.nih.gov

Zubin Master, Ph.D.
Associate Editor for Commentaries
Biomedical Ethics Research Program
Mayo Clinic
200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
E-mail: master.zubin@mayo.edu

Alison Antes, Ph.D.
Bioethics Research Center
School of Medicine
Washington University in St. Louis.
St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
E-mail: aantes@wustl.edu

Sam Bruton, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Office of Research Integrity
University of Southern Mississippi,
Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA
E-mail: samuel.bruton@usm.edu

Mohammad Hosseini, Ph.D.
Department of Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics)
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
320 E. Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60010, USA
Email: mohammad.hosseini@northwestern.edu

Kelly Laas, MLIS
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL 60616, USA
E-mail: laas@iit.edu

Kirstin R.W. Matthews, Ph.D.
Baker Institute for Public Policy
Rice University
Houston, TX, 77015-1892, USA
E-mail: krwm@rice.edu

Toby Schonfeld, Ph.D.
National Center for Ethics in Health Care
Washington, DC 20420, USA
E-mail: schonfeldair@gmail.com

EDITORIAL BOARD

Emily Anderson - Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Jason Borenstein - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Michael Davis - Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, IIT Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Kenneth DeVille - Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

Chunyan Ding - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Tu Van Duong - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Kevin C. Elliott - Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Jake Earl - US Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC, USA

Ruiping Fan - City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Daniele Fanelli - Institute for the Study of Science, Technology & Innovation, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Elizabeth Heitman - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

Guangwei Hu - Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, SAR

Kohji Ishihara - The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Francis Kombe - Africa Research Integrity Network, Nairobu, Kenya; EthiXPERT, Pretoria, South Africa

Dorcas Kamaya - KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya; and Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Yonghui Ma - Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Tristan McIntosh - Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

David Moher - Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Sophia J. Pan - National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Tainan City, Taiwan

Trisha Phillips - West Virginia University, Morganton, USA

Dena Plemmons - University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA

Hans Radder - VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jeffrey I. Seeman - University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, USA

Ehsan Shamsi-Gooshki - University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Kristin Shrader-Frechette - Notre Dame, IN, USA

Elise Smith - University of Texas Medical Branch, TX, USA

Kory Trott - University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

Jennifer Wright - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

Qin Zhu - Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA