Research code of conduct

  • REStud Community Members should undertake all research activities in line with the standards of publication ethics set by the Committee of the Publication Ethics (“COPE”). Further information on the COPE standards can be found All Activities should be conducted with integrity, care, honesty and transparency and REStud Community Members shall follow the below principles when submitting and article or presenting/discussing an article:
    • Plagiarism: plagiarism will not be tolerated by REStud. Contributions by other individuals should be correctly cited with personal contribution truthful and accurate;
    • Intellectual Property: all data and software must be legally obtained. The rights of any copyright agreement or applicable terms and conditions of the data, software or other materials used in research should be complied with;
    • Appropriation: REStud Community Members should not appropriate ideas of others including those of other REStud Community Members;
    • Authorship: co-authorship of an article submitted to REStud should be the result of a scientific contribution and not the result of unethical behaviours including, but not limited to:
      • the result of power relations; or
      • the artificial inflation of someone’s publication record.

All authors should be in agreement with the submission of an article or presentation of such. Co-authors shall be dually responsible for the full content of the article unless otherwise disclosed at the time of submission. Articles should not be submitted if there is an ongoing dispute regarding the authorship.

  • Data and Code: REStud Community Members should not falsify or undertake any fraudulent manipulation of data or of the results obtained from such data. Replication packages must be made available and properly documented in accordance with REStud’s Data and Code Availability policy which can be found here;
  • Co-operation: REStud Community Members must cooperate with researchers trying to reproduce the results of their published paper to the extent that these requests are reasonable;
  • Conflict of Interest: in the event of a conflict of interest, REStud’s policies regarding conflict of interest (which can be found ) should be followed. If a REStud Community Member is unable to undertake their role in an objective manner, they should inform REStud, citing their perceived conflict of interest, even if the conflict is not listed in the policy-dictated conflicts of interest;
  • Impartiality: REStud Community Members should not seek special treatment from editors or referees before, during, or after the evaluation process of an article submission or during any other REStud Activity; and
  • Expertise: REStud Community Members should acknowledge the limits of their expertise when undertaking their roles. Referees should inform editors, or remove themselves from their roles, when they are unable to provide an informed assessment of the work of others. Editors should seek enough recommendation from referees and potentially other editors when the extent of their expertise limits their ability to make informed decisions.