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Fostering Research Integrity

A Practical Guide for Research Ethics

  • 1st Edition - September 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Ashima Anand
  • Language: English

Fostering Research Integrity: A Practical Guide to Research Ethics, a new release in Elsevier's new series, Hot Topics in Physiology, addresses the aspects of research inte… Read more

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Description

Fostering Research Integrity: A Practical Guide to Research Ethics, a new release in Elsevier's new series, Hot Topics in Physiology, addresses the aspects of research integrity, international normative instruments governing research integrity, and research practices. Additionally, the book covers emerging issues in ethics such as organoid research, AI, animals research, as well as data sharing and protection. Users will find this resource invaluable to any laboratory who utilizes animals in research—biology, physiology, cell biology, etc. It will also be vital to researchers involved in human research studies—universities and pharmaceuticals and would be vital for anyone doing research in any discipline.

Key features

  • Promotes research integrity and the challenging ethical issues emerging in the life sciences
  • Discusses the current landscape and assists the reader in deciphering ethical issues and perceptions driving regulatory changes
  • Written by global leaders in the field

Readership

Researchers, scientists, and clinicians in biology, physiology and cell biology; as well as undergrads, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows

Table of contents

Section I

1. Research Integrity as a Driver for Research Excellence

2. Benefits from Fostering Scientific and Publication Integrity

3. Maintaining Integrity of Physiological/Life Sciences Research: Cautioning Against Predatory Journals

4. Impact of Bibliometrics on Reproducibility of Biomedical Results

5. Research Security and its Impact on Research Integrity and International Collaborations

6. Integrity and Security in the Global Research Ecosystem

Section II

7 Ethical Considerations Regarding Animal Experimentation

8. Principles Guiding Animal Research Ethics: Unifying the various Rs

Section III

9 Human Subjects Research Practices

10. Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research

11. Ethics of Validating Animal Models for Preclinical Research

12. Ethics of Registering Preclincial Stuides

Section IV

13 Ethical Issues of Conducting Organoid Research

14. AI in Life Science Research

15. Artificial Intelligence and Physiology

16. AI in Life Science Research and Publications: Increasing the Threat of Plagiarism and Data Fabrication

Section V

17 Rules for Organizations to Support Research Data Sharing

18. Barriers and Enablers of Data Sharing by Scientists

19. Ethical Data Sharing

20. Biomedical Data Protection: The Role of Information

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Ashima Anand

Ashima Anand, PhD, is a member and councillor of the Society of Scientific Values, India. She was also a member of the Animal and of the medical research Ethical committees at Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi for several years. As Chair and member of the Ethics Committee of IUPS (the latter since its formation in 2001), she organized two Symposia (1) Promoting Ethical Practices in Physiological Sciences 38th IUPS Congress, Rio de Janeiro and (2) on Animal replacement in Physiological studies: Progress and Validation Problems, during the 39th IUPS Congress, Beijing. Dr. Anand has contributed vastly to the policies and workshops of ICSU’s Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in Science for six years. Besides several publications of her own of DST funded research on mechanisms of breathlessness in health and disease she presented and published in two Proceedings of the World Congresses of Research Integrity (WCRI).

Affiliations and expertise
Principal Investigator, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, India