The Notice emphasizes that in order to strengthen the daily education and guidance of the scientific research personnel of the unit, it is necessary to carry out scientific research integrity education at important nodes such as enrollment, promotion of professional titles, and participation in various scientific and technological activities, and evaluate the academic style and scientific research integrity of scientific research personnel during the annual assessment, award and evaluation. Supervise the project team leaders and graduate tutors to strengthen the education and management of scientific research integrity for team members and students.
Strengthen the audit of breakthrough scientific and technological achievements and major scientific and technological progress to be published by the unit to ensure that they are realistic, scientific and rigorous, and urge the project leader, team leader and tutor to strictly check the academic and integrity of the papers to be published to ensure that the published papers are rigorous and standardized and the data are true.
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The "Notice" specifically mentions strengthening the review of breakthrough scientific and technological achievements and major scientific and technological progress to be published by the unit, and urging project leaders, team leaders and tutors to strictly control the academic and integrity of the papers to be published. In addition, establish and strictly implement the scientific research data exchange system to ensure that the original records of scientific research activities of the unit are timely, accurate and complete, and can be queried and traced.
The Notice emphasizes that when applying for scientific research projects and innovation bases (special projects, funds, etc.) of various science and technology plans, all relevant units should make a clear commitment to implementing the main responsibilities determined in this notice. The Ministry of Science and Technology and the Natural Science Foundation of China will take the letter of commitment signed by all relevant units as an important basis for approving relevant scientific and technological activities and bring it into the scope of key verification. Those who make false promises or break their promises will be dealt with according to the provisions of the Rules for the Investigation of Scientific Integrity Cases (Trial) on "deliberately providing false information to obtain approval for scientific research activities" and will be rectified within a time limit.
It is worth noting that the performance of the main responsibility of the relevant units in scientific research style and scientific research integrity construction will be included in the credit record, and those with more problems will be included in the key supervision objects.
People's Network-Ministry of Science and Technology: The number of papers and impact factors cannot be linked to bonuses.