Strengthening the incentives for responsible research practices in Australian health and medical research funding.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Australian health and medical research funders support substantial research efforts, and incentives within grant funding schemes influence researcher behaviour. We aimed to determine to what extent Australian health and medical funders incentivise responsible research practices.

Methods

We conducted an audit of instructions from research grant and fellowship schemes. Eight national research grants and fellowships were purposively sampled to select schemes that awarded the largest amount of funds. The funding scheme instructions were assessed against 9 criteria to determine to what extent they incentivised these responsible research and reporting practices: (1) publicly register study protocols before starting data collection, (2) register analysis protocols before

SUBMITTER: Diong J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8328133 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature