Raising the bar

Revised concordat will raise standards of research integrity, says Leonie Shanks

The first UK Concordat to Support Research Integrity, published in 2012, defined research integrity as the practice of “maintaining the highest standards of rigour and integrity in all aspects of research”. 

It set out five high-level commitments that researchers, their employers and funders were expected to adhere to, and did much to catalyse progress around research integrity across the UK system.