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The associate dean of research at S\u00e3o Paulo State University (UNESP) created a website with tips on good practices and issues related to scientific integrity. Named Propetips<\/a>, it addresses topics such as plagiarism, excessive use of self-citations, the correct way to attribute authorship of a scientific paper, how to identify predatory journals, and more, in a total of 26 entries to date.<\/p>\n

The task has been led since 2018 by Jos\u00e9 Augusto Chaves Guimar\u00e3es, from the information science department at UNESP\u2019s School of Philosophy and Sciences, Mar\u00edlia campus, who at the time chaired the university\u2019s Institutional Commission for Rankings. \u201cThe original idea was to create a set of guidelines to help UNESP faculty and students achieve greater visibility for their work, such as properly signing and recording institutional affiliations and the importance of registering on ORCID, which makes a researcher\u2019s papers more accessible to the companies responsible for ranking universities,\u201d explains Guimar\u00e3es. The scope of Propetips was soon expanded to offer suggestions on good academic practices, such as giving and receiving scientific reviews, how to choose the best keywords for a paper, and how to write more informative abstracts, in addition to ways of preventing misconduct. \u201cThe tips are short and written in accessible language, and their objective is to inform and encourage appropriate behavior, without the regulatory or punitive angle that guidelines on good practices often take. They are designed to guide researchers through preparatory actions that lead to reflection. I\u2019ve been told that some of the tips are obvious and that all scientists should already know them, but if they were really that obvious, we wouldn\u2019t have so many problems related to poor academic visibility and scientific misconduct,\u201d he says. Guimar\u00e3es says the response to the website has been positive. \u201cI have received emails from professors telling me that they are going to add the tips to the reference list of their disciplines.\u201d\u00a0 The researcher has plans to write about the phenomenon of hyperauthorship, which is the publication of scientific articles with hundreds or even thousands of authors. \u201cIt is a matter of concern, because it is difficult to understand how each individual contributed to the work. It can also open up a means of attributing authorship to people that perhaps should only be included in the acknowledgments.\u201d Recently, the Propetips were incorporated into the strategies of the UNESP Commission for Research Integrity, Ethics, and Practices, established in 2017, which Guimar\u00e3es has recently joined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The associate dean of research at S\u00e3o Paulo State University created a website with tips on good practices and issues related to scientific integrity","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[230],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-393269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-practices","tag-ethics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393990,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393269\/revisions\/393990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393269"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=393269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}