POLICY BRIEF: Data Ethics and Research Integrity

The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science emphasizes creating the scientific data and knowledge openly available, accessible, and reusable for everyone, thereby helping to ensure the well-established values and norms of the academic community and expand their scope. The UNESCO Recommendation stresses that Open Science and research integrity are inseparable. Research integrity and data ethics are deeply intertwined along the full cycle of research and they are highly dependent on the perspective of multiple stakeholders. Therefore, in the context of data ethics, collaborative efforts to support research integrity need to be further strengthened in areas such as transparency, reusability, and overall quality and impact of research in terms of research data collection, management, interpretation, and dissemination.