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Data Ethics: Who Is Responsible for Data Privacy and Security in life sciences?
In life sciences, ethical data plays a fundamental role in the publication process, from initial idea to final peer-reviewed manuscript. Transformative research that sheds light on the causes of disease demands transparency and reproducible results in order to be validated. For example, in biomedicine, insights about complex diseases such as cancer require many years of testing new hypotheses and approaches before they can be put into widespread use. However, rigorous ethical review is also essential for ensuring that investigators are not unnecessarily exposing subjects to risks and that investigations are carried out according to appropriate scientific principles. Every journal must therefore have an explicit policy on publishing ethically responsible research. In this blog post we will cover key questions regarding how journals should handle ethical data in their publication processes.
What is ethical data?
Ethical data: To publish research data is to publish what has been done. Ethicists and legal experts debate about what can and cannot be published, both with regard to the data itself and the way that it has been conducted. Both the results and the method of obtaining them are recorded. However, some studies are too sensitive and confidential to publish, while…
