Hamed Karami, Director General of the Office of Inspection and Response to Complaints of the Ministry of Science, in an interview with Mehr reporter, said about the entry of the Office of Inspection and Response to Complaints of the Ministry of Science into the issue of research violations: a series of complaints that we have, and the number of them is also significant, are research complaints. is External regulatory bodies monitor compliance with the general laws of the country; As the inspection of the Ministry of Science, we tried to conduct a specialized inspection and the inspection was in the field of our problems.
Stating that based on the estimates, our first priority was research topics, he said: The Law of Prevention and Combating Fraud is an important law that has assigned cultural and media tasks to the Ministry of Science, as well as legal tasks and research tasks. For this reason, we corresponded with both the research and legal assistant units to learn about the ministry’s performance today and then take the next steps.
In some universities, the research ethics committee has not been established
The Director General of the Office of Inspection and Complaints of the Ministry of Science said about the actions taken in this field: Unfortunately, in some universities, ethics committees in research have not been formed, or if they are formed, they do not hold meetings regularly or do not take the legal actions that they should take, which of course Their problems are few, but we have to face them.
He explained about the legal follow-up of unauthorized actions in this area: In the legal department, special judicial officers should be appointed by the legal center of the Ministry of Science to follow up on these issues, and we are following up on this issue in order to perform well in the field of research health and research ethics. to be
In response to the question of what kind of research complaints are raised, Kerami explained: Most of the complaints are that two colleagues, who may be two faculty members, or a faculty member and a student, or an independent researcher, have violated research ethics. They didn’t comply or sometimes they had customized, unrealistic, etc. articles.
He emphasized: If we can solve these issues by accounting, it will reduce the number of these issues.
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