ethics is all about a standard accepted by society to distinguish wright and wrong. Do not do that on the repetition of same thing on you , you do not like and make sure from your work society gets benefits
Research ethics concerns the responsibility of researchers to be honest and respectful to all individuals who are affected by their research studies or their reports of the studies’ results. Following important point should be taken consideration in research
a. Researchers do not fabricate data. (They do not make false, deceptive, or fraudulent statements concerning their publications or research findings.)
b. If they discover significant errors in their published data, they take reasonable steps to correct such errors in a correction, re-traction, erratum, or other appropriate publication means.
c. They do not present portions of another’s work or data as their own, even if the other work or data source is cited occasionally.
d. It is important to distinguish between error and fraud
e. Fraud is an explicit effort to falsify or misrepresent data.
f. A safeguard against fraud is peer review, which takes place when a researcher submits a research article for publication.
g. Replication is repetition of a research study using the same basic procedures used in the original to test the accuracy.
Can anyone highlight the Ethical Issues of Research?
Agreed with comments shared by previous researchers / scholars. Want to add also:
Experiment on human beings.
Experiment on animals (some countries / universities also forbid this).
Outsource a portion of research to others & claim it as his / her own research e.g. certain experiments, tools used, data analyses etc.
Adopt / adapt research instrument / questionnaire without asking for consent from original author etc.
Plagiarism.
Tag along as an author of a published article without significant contribution in the research.
Apply biasness when working as a reviewer / editor to review / edit a manuscript - e.g. enforce author(s) to cite the reviewer / editor's works inside the manuscript.
There are several points to highlight. First the intellectual honesty of the author of the investigation. Second, transparency in the use of sources and methodological clarity. Third, Do not hide information. Fourth, if the research has a fieldwork and requires sensitive information that can psychologically or physically affect human beings, it must have an IRB certification. In the same way this certification is necessary if you work with animals. Finally, anyone who reads the research can verify the accuracy of the bibliographical and methodological sources used.
Human subject research Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval which includes informed consent from all the subjects.
Other ethical issues include honest (unbiased) data collection, interpretation and analysis; proper citations of reference material; making sure that the information gained from the research far outweighs any risks involved including tretment of animals