Ethics and Scientific Integrity in Research

Abstract

The improving the state of research ethics among the scientific community requires attention to the necessary infrastructure and quality in research. This chapter considers the training of ethical principles in the research process in curricula as a neglected aspect of research activities and it considers ethics and scientific integrity as the most important aspect of promoting academic excellence. The first step to prevent ethical abuse in research and to internalize scientific excellence in universities considers the formation of values or the formulation of an ethics and scientific integrity charter as the main solution. Therefore, this chapter first considers the reason for ethics and scientific integrity in research and tries to establish a link between these. Then it considers the position of ethics and scientific integrity in research in higher education centers. In the following, the higher education system is faced with two ethical discourses. Finally, it deals with standardization and drawing a vision of the ethics in the higher education system.