Marcia McNutt, president of the US National Academy of Sciences, is among a group of research leaders planning to set up a national policy board for research integrity.
“A fractured, inefficient, inconsistent system has built up over the past 70 years to protect research quality and integrity,” McNutt and her four co-authors wrote in an article published in the journal Nature on 11 February. In the article they set out their perceived need for a “research policy board”.
“As experts who have led efforts to improve the US scientific enterprise, we know that it cannot be optimised piecemeal,” they said.
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