A Big Thank You for all participants who made the IV BRISPE a really great meeting!
News on the V BRISPE, including the next host, will be available soon!
17-18/11/2016
Universidade Federal
de Goiás (UFG)
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BRAZILIAN MEETING ON RESEARCH INTEGRITY, SCIENCE AND PUBLICATION ETHICS
RESEARCH INTEGRITY: THE ROLE OF MENTORS, EDITORS AND FUNDERS 
Currently, Brazil is facing political and economic hurdles that have posed additional challenges for its educational, scientific and technological systems. Funding for research and development is among these. However, despite these challenges, some priorities that continue to guide Brazil’s scientific endeavours and science policy include fostering a culture of research ethics and integrity at the country’s universities and research centers.
The Brazilian Meeting on Research Integrity, Science and Publication Ethics (BRISPE) has stimulated Brazilian institutions to address research integrity since 2010, (http://www.iibrispe.coppe.ufrj.br/index.php/i-brispe). With increasing engagement of Brazilian mentors, editors and funders, the BRISPE (www.iibrispe.coppe.ufrj.br) has helped to foster a culture of research ethics and integrity in Brazil (http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/2014/09/16/compromisso-acao/), and the meeting is now in its fourth edition. The IV BRISPE will be held on November 17-18, 2016, at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) and aims to strengthen the role Brazil has played locally and also globally in conversations about the responsible conduct of research. These conversations have increasingly been framed by issues related to science and society, public trust in research results, debates over the reliability of the research record, and over gradual changes in the communication and reward systems of science. The IV BRISPE thus invites the participation of researchers, university students, editors, funders, educators, policymakers, and all of those interested in the research enterprise. The theme of this fourth edition of the meeting is "Research Integrity: The Role of Mentors, Editors and Funders". [Portuguese Version]
Alexander Kellner –
PhD, Professor of the Graduate Program in Zoology from the National Museum/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He organized several expeditions in different parts of the world such as Antarctica, the Atacama Desert in Chile, Montana, USA, Patagonia, Argentina and the Kerman region of Iran. He participated in the organization of numerous scientific events, highlighting the first symposium on pterosaurs, held at the American Museum of Natural History (New York) in 1996 and the 31th International Geological Congress, held in Brazil in 2000. He was named Honorary Member of the New York Paleontological Society, Honorary Member of la Sociedad Paleontological de Chile (Santiago) and Associate Researcher at the Palaeontology Division of the American Museum of Natural History (New York) and at the Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (Beijing, China). Dr. Kellner has taken part in several initiatives to improve science communication and the public understanding of science. He is editor-in-chief of the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. 
Daniele Fanelli –
PhD, is Senior Research Scientist at METRICS - Meta-Research Innovation Center, Stanford University. He is one of the first natural scientists who specialized in the study of scientific misconduct, bias and related issues, and has produced some of the largest studies assessing the prevalence of bias across disciplines and countries. His work and opinions are regularly cited in the popular press. Daniele has been involved at various levels with international conferences and initiatives on research integrity. Most recently he became a member of the Research Ethics and Bioethics Advisory Committee of CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy), for which he developed the research integrity guidelines and currently chairs the research misconduct subcommittee. He previously worked at the University of Edinburgh, University of Leuven, London School of Economics, and University of Montreal.
Ivan Oransky –
MD, the vice president and global editorial director of MedPage Today, has taught medical reporting in the Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program since 2002. He is co-founder of Retraction Watch, a site that reports on scientific integrity, fraud, and other issues. The site, now funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, has been called “one of the best innovations in science in recent years” by the former editor in chief of the British Medical Journal.Ivan previously was executive editor of Reuters Health and held editorial positions at Scientific American and The Scientist. A 2012 TEDMED speaker, he is the recipient of the 2015 John P. McGovern Medal for excellence in biomedical communication from the American Medical Writers Association. Ivan, who holds an appointment at the School of Medicine as a clinical assistant professor of medicine, has also taught at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism and has written for publications from Nature to the New York Times. As of October 2013, he serves as vice president of the Association of Health Care Journalists. 
Miguel Roig –
Ph.D is a professor of psychology at the Staten Island campus of St. John’s University. He became interested in the problem of plagiarism in the mid 1990s when he first explored the topic within the context of academic dishonesty. That work led him to expand his examination of plagiarism and of other unethical writing and publication practices in the sciences and in other areas of scholarship. Miguel has lectured widely on these topics, has consulted as a subject matter expert in a number of legal cases and has also written instructional resources on avoiding plagiarism for the US Office of Research Integrity and for the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative. He currently serves on a number of journal editorial boards and is also a member of the board of directors for the Center for Scientific Integrity, the parent organization of Retraction Watch.
