연구윤리교육을 위한 쟁점과 사례 연구 - 인문⋅사회 분야를 중심으로 -

Abstract

Research ethics is an ethical value and norm that researchers must abide by throughout the entire research process. In Korea, since the Ministry of Education enacted 「Guidelines for Securing Research Ethics」 in 2007, awareness and education on this have been strengthened, but research misconduct is continuously increasing. The main reasons for this are overheated research competition, weak punishment for cheating, and hierarchical research practices, but poor research ethics education can also be a problem. In particular, data on research ethics and misconduct are provided mainly in the field of science and engineering, and the amount and scope of the data are vast, so that researchers in the humanities and social fields must read hundreds of pages of data to understand research ethics and misconduct. So this study aims to contribute to practical research ethics education by extracting issues related to research misconduct that have been confused or not accurately understood among researchers in the humanities and social fields and by providing information on them. The cases of research misconduct presented in this study were sampled from the data investigated by the National Research Foundation of Korea. The scope is limited to cases of fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, unfair author indication, and duplicate publication as stipulated by the Ministry of Education Ordinance. Based on the content of the issues and cases raised in this study, the following are suggestions for matters that need to be discussed to strengthen research ethics in the humanities and social fields in the future. First, it is the improvement of the research environment. In order for a culture of research integrity to take root, a research environment in which researchers can resist and report misconduct and abuse of power must be established. Second, it is to establish a strengthened research ethics system to prevent research misconduct. Regulations and penalties for misconduct are not effective due to the ambiguity of the clear guidelines and interpretation of the research ethics regulations currently enforced by each institution. Each university and research institute must publish an enhanced research ethics regulation book and manage the fraud verification system so that it can be operated objectively and fairly. Third, it is a cat of ethical awareness for research integrity through internalization of periodic and continuous education on research ethics. To this end, universities and research institutes should create their own practical manuals and strengthen prevention education so that they can recognize and implement detailed guidelines and ethical principles for research conduct.