Research and Scientific Integrity at UGA

The research programming law assigns to the state the national policy on scientific integrity (Article L211-2 of the Research Code). In this context, public institutions, including universities and research organizations, provide the conditions for meeting the requirements of scientific integrity and establish the necessary systems to promote the values of scientific integrity. Research work, including all public research activities, must comply with the requirements of scientific integrity to ensure their honesty and scientific rigor and to strengthen the trust relationship with society. The presentation will begin by describing the main serious violations of scientific integrity that can affect research activities (such as fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, concealment of conflicts of interest, etc.) before reviewing the bad practices related to data retention and management, and finally recalling the common misconduct in publications (signing a publication without justification, disputes over author order, self-plagiarism, publishing in predatory journals, etc.). In the second part, the speakers will present the systems implemented by UGA, a signatory of the French Charter of Research Ethics (2015), to handle reports of potential violations of scientific integrity.

  • Thematic Session

Speaker

  • François Paysant

    François Paysant

    Scientific Integrity Officer at UGA

    François PAYSANT is a doctor by training, specialized in forensic medicine. He is currently a senior lecturer at UGA, a hospital practitioner, and a researcher at the CERDAP2 Laboratory. After his medical training, he pursued studies in health law. He has successively participated in the work of an animal ethics committee, a research ethics committee, presided over the ethics and deontology commission at the Faculty of Medicine, and is currently a member of UGA's ethics committee, a member of UG... read more

  • Sophie Panel

    Sophie Panel

    Senior Lecturer, Member of the Scientific Integrity Committee at the University of Grenoble Alpes

    Sophie PANEL is a senior lecturer in economics at Sciences Po Grenoble and a researcher at the Pacte Laboratory. After earning her PhD in 2015 from the University of Heidelberg, she worked at Sciences Po Bordeaux, the Research Institute for Strategic Studies at the École Militaire, and the Free University of Brussels. She is the scientific integrity officer at UGA.... read more