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Ethical Standards and Principles in Scientific Research: Ensuring Credibility, Integrity, and Accountability

An analysis of ethical standards in scientific research and their role in ensuring credibility.

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    Ethics Discuss the importance of ethical standards in scientific research and how you, as a researcher, would apply these standards in the process of conducting your dissertation research. In your response, include specific ethical principles such as plagiarism, informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, and data handling and reporting. Provide a reflection on how these standards will guide your research and ensure its credibility and reliability. Your answer should be no less than 2,500 words.

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    Introduction The credibility of scientific inquiry is defines by the ability of a researcher to adhere to the standards and principles of scientific research in all phases of the research process. Research activities, such as literature review, collection of data, analysis and presentation must be aligned with a code of ethics that governs researchers. Ethical standards and principles are not only important for the approval of a research, but it demonstrates that the researcher preserved the rights of research subjects and avoided ethical misconduct that limits the reliability of research findings, conclusions and recommendations for practical application. In the following sections, I discuss how I will apply the ethical standards and principles to ensure that my research process and the final presentation of the dissertation are credible and reliable. Plagiarism I understand that plagiarism has both negative ethical and legal implications on researchers. Because of this, researchers are mandated to act with integrity in the process of gathering both secondary and primary data and information of their research. In order to avoid plagiarism, I will not take any secondary data that I will obtain from existing publications or documents as my own. I will ensure that my literature review and the authors I cite in the discussion of my research findings are adequately acknowledged. I will not adopt the findings of other researchers and claim that they are my own. Doing this would be against the American Psychological Association ethical standards on research and publication (American Psychological Association, 2015). I will use theoretical frameworks of other researchers and theorists to apply my research findings, but I will recognize them as the originators of the applied theories.

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    I understand that paraphrasing the works of others does not mean that it is my own work. Because of this, I will ensure that both direct quotes and paraphrases are appropriately cited and acknowledged. I will ensure that my dissertation employs both in - text citation and a list of references that is based on APA guidelines. This includes acknowledging the authors(s) of the publication that is cited, the date of publication and the publication within which it was published whether it is a book or journal entry. In this sense, I will allow the readers of my dissertation to seek the original thoughts of the authors I will cite in the relevant publications if they feel it is necessary. Adhering to the ethical standards on research and publication I recognize that research processes are built on the findings of others without violating the ethical rights of ownership to publications or legal rights, such as copyright. Through the guidance of the ethical standards on research and publication, I will contribute knowledge to my area of research without violating the rights of other researchers. I am aware that plagiarism is a form of fraud which has negative ethical and professional implications in academic and scholarly practice. I will therefore ensure that I avoid all forms of plagiarism in my research and writing the dissertation manuscript. I consider honesty as an ethical and personal obligation or commitment rather than just a means of achieving academic objectives. Because of this, my need to produce original work is motivated by personal ethical obligation for both my current research work and future research endeavors. Risk Assessment I understand that risk assessment is one of the important requirements before any scientific research process begins. I will discuss the possible risks of my research with my mentor and establish ways of ensuring that they do not have any negative implications on the research process. I will also report my risk assessment findings in order to ensure that

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    participants are aware of the potential risks of the study before they can decide to give consent for their participation in the research process. Risk assessment is an important aspect of the research proposal process because both researchers and sponsors hold some level of liability or responsibility for the research process and any risks that may arise (Bromley, Mikesell, Jones & Khodyakov, 2015). I will assess risks related to my research such as reputational damage in order to ensure that there are no negative public image implications on correctional facilities and private health care contractors that will be involved in the research process. I will determine if the public perception of the aforementioned organizations is affected by research process. On the basis of this assessment, I will ensure that the ethical standards and principles are met so that the institutions of corrections that will host my research will not have negative effects on their image for hosting unethical research. Furthermore, I will assess risks associated with the approval board, such as reputational damage for approving a research process that is associated ethical misconduct. The assessment of reputational risk assessment is important because it allows researchers to implement effective ethical safeguards against any misconduct in the process of the research that may lead to negative public perceptions on organizations, research funding agencies or approval boards (Honig, Lampel, Siegel & Drnevich, 2014). For instance, the assessment of reputational risk of my research will act as a guideline for implementing strategies of ensuring that the research meets the quality standards that guides IRB Approval. I will also assess the risks associated with the participants. This includes possible prejudice for participating in the research process. Doing this risk assessment is important because it establishes the risks of a research process that must be communicated to participants

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