Responsible Research
Contact: Prof. Dr. Maurice Zeegers
Current projects
BMJ – Responsible Publishing
We are partnering with the BMJ to offer a 4-year PhD program in the responsible conduct of publishing scientific research. The BMJ has been at the forefront of innovative thinking and practice in healthcare and is the fourth most highly cited general medical journal in the world. This PhD opportunity is for a self-funded or scholarship-based program with distance-learning. PhD candidates will be supervised by a team of research integrity researchers and BMJ staff on selected topics. Students will also have free access to selected courses. There will be no University tuition fee.
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SPIROS 2024 - Responsible Reporting
SPIROS 2024 - Responsible Reporting.
(Standardized Protocol Items Recommendations for Observational Studies) is a guideline for the minimum content of an observational study protocol. We have defined the scope of the recommendations to cover three main observational study designs: cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies.
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SERCEA - Responsible Governance
A pioneering initiative aimed at reinforcing ethical considerations and responsible conduct in research including clinical trial research across East and Sub-Saharan Africa. With the rapid expansion of (clinical) research in the region, our mission is to ensure that these studies are conducted to the highest research quality standards through the transfer and building of expertise in research ethics, integrity and open science in the sub-Saharan region.
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Recent Publications (with authors from the meta-research team)
- Identification of Retracted Publications and Completeness of Retraction Notices in Public Health (Caitlin Bakker, Maurice Zeegers)
- Systematic review search strategies are poorly reported and not reproducible: a cross-sectional meta-research study (Melissa Rethlefsen, Maurice Zeegers)
- The relationship between methodological quality and the use of retracted publications in evidence syntheses (Caitlin Bakker, Maurice Zeegers)
- In Defense of the Netherlands Research Integrity Code: Response to Radder (Maurice Zeegers)
Current PhD Projects
Standardized Protocol Items Recommendations for Observational Studies (Raman Mahajan)
- The Representation, Identification and Continued Impact of Retracted Publications in Biomedical Literature (Caitlin Bakker)
- The relation between time pressure and research integrity practices in the approval and publication of medical research (Enock Kebenei)
- Development and Implementation of a Research Integrity Code of Conduct in Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya (Kirsten reijbroek)
- The use of artificial intelligence in scientific publications and their peer review (Isamme AlFayyad)