Research Ethics
Other Health Specialties | Philosophy (General) | Research Methods & Evaluation (General)
Research Ethics provides a platform for sharing experiences and analysis of ethical issues that are related to the design, conduct, impact and oversight of research. Through open and transparent narrative and analysis of ethical issues in research, it serves to raise awareness, challenge assumptions and help find solutions for complex ethical issues.
Ethical issues are not limited to a specific discipline or type of research. The Editors welcome submissions from any research field (for instance, biomedical, social science, environmental, information technology, or the arts) and a broad range of methodological approaches (for instance, clinical trials, animal experimentation, qualitative studies, laboratory or desk-based research).
Some examples of the topics addressed in Research Ethics include:
- Ethical issues related to the inclusion of vulnerable populations in research
- Ethics dumping
- Benefit sharing
- Ethical issues related to social media research
- Research integrity and research misconduct
- The education and training of researchers and ethics reviewers
- The development and implementation of governance mechanisms
In addition to these applied ethics issues, the journal also welcomes original theoretical papers that contribute to the debate around the normative underpinnings or ethical frameworks for research ethics.
Research Ethics publishes original papers and review articles as well as informative case studies and offers a home for submissions from authors from around the world. The quality of submitted articles is evaluated independently by double-blind peer review.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Research Ethics is aimed at readers and authors who are interested in ethical issues associated with the design and conduct of research, the regulation of research, the procedures and process of ethical review and issues related to scientific integrity. The journal aims to promote, inspire, host and engage in open and public debate about research ethics on an international scale and to contribute to the education of researchers and reviewers of research.
Research Ethics offers a home for submissions from authors from around the world and publishes original papers and review articles as well as informative case studies. The quality of submitted articles is evaluated independently by double-blind peer review.
Yves Saint James Aquino | University of Wollongong, Australia |
Bridget Haire | University of New South Wales, Australia |
Jane Williams | University of Wollongong, Australia |
Robert James Boyles | De La Salle University, Philippines |
Julie Cook | University of Central Lancashire, UK |
Natalia Hanley | University of Wollongong, Australia |
Melissa McCradden | University of Adelaide, Australia |
Emilia Niemiec | University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
Stuart Rennie | UNC Chapel Hill, United States |
Owen Schaefer | Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore |
Henry Silverman | University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA |
Rebecca Tapscott | University of York, UK |
Emma Tumilty | University of Texas Medical Branch, USA |
Kate Chatfield | University of Central Lancashire, UK |
Zuzana Deans | University of Bristol, UK |
Véronique Delpire | Words & Science, Belgium |
Edward Dove | Maynooth University, Ireland |
Phoebe Friesen | McGill University, Canada |
Mark Israel | Australasian Human Research Ethics Consultancy Services, Australia |
Dirk Lanzerath | University of Bonn, Germany |
Jessica Martin | Newcastle University, UK |
Alan McElligott | City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
Syntia Munung Nchangwi | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
Stuart Nicholls | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada |
Doris Schroeder | University of Central Lancashire, UK |
Sandhya Srinivasan | Mumbai, India |
Samuel Ujewe | Canadian Institutes of Health Research |
Charles Weijer | Western University, Canada |
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