Perspective on reducing errors in research
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Efforts to ensure research integrity has mostly focused on research misconduct. However, the complexity of research operations and processes makes research work also prone to unintentional errors. To safeguard against errors and their consequences, strategies for error reduction, detection, and mitigation can be applied to research work. Nurturing a scientific culture that encourages error disclosure and rectification is essential to reduce the negative consequences of errors. Creating repositories where errors can be reported can enable learning from errors and creation of more robust research processes.
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Strategies for reducing errors in science include time-honored quality assurance and quality improvement techniques, such as auditing data, instruments, and systems; validating and testing instruments that analyze or process data; and investigating and analyzing errors.
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- Authors
- Aboumatar, H., Thompson, C., Garcia-Morales, E., Gurses, A. P., Naqibuddin, M., Saunders, J., Kim, S. W., & AWise, R.
- Affiliations
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Aboumatar, Hanan
- ORCID
- Venue
- Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-09
- Volume
- 23
- Pages
- 100838
- ISSN
- 2451-8654 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8390521
- OpenAlex
- W3193672086
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1
- FWCI
- 2.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
- Keywords
- research errors, error reduction, research integrity, research misconduct, error detection, error mitigation, error disclosure, error reporting, scientific culture, learning from mistakes
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