Research ethics offers advice for the responsible conduct of research. In addition, it teaches and monitors faculty conducting research to certify a high ethical standard. The following is a common summary of some ethical principles:

• Honesty: Honestly report data, results, methods and procedures, and publication status. Don’t fabricate, falsify, misrepresent data, etc.
• Objectivity: Strive to avoid bias in experimental design, data analysis, data interpretation, peer review, personnel decisions, grant writing, expert testimony, and other research aspects.
• Integrity: Keep your promises and agreements; act with seriousness; try for consistency of thought and action.
• Carefulness: Escape careless errors and negligence; cautiously and critically inspect your own work and the work of your peers. Keep worthy records of research happenings.
• Openness: Share data, results, ideas, tools, resources. Be open to condemnation and novel ideas.
• Respect for Intellectual Property: Honour copyrights, patents, other forms of intellectual property. Don’t utilize unpublished data, procedures, or results without consent. Provide credit where credit is due. Never plagiarize.
• Confidentiality: Guard confidential communications, like papers or grants submitted for publication, people records, trade or military secrets, and patient records.
• Responsible Publication: Broadcast in order to advance research and scholarship, not to spread just your own career. Stop wasteful and duplicative publication.
• Responsible Mentoring: Support to educate, mentor, and advise students. Encourage their welfare and permit them to make their own assessments.
• Respect for Colleagues: Respect your associates and treat them honestly.
• Social Responsibility: Strive to stimulate social good and prevent or mitigate social harms through research, public education, and advocacy.
• Non-Discrimination: Avoid discrimination against associates or students on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender or other factors that aren’t related to their scientific competence and integrity.
• Competence: Maintain and increase your own professional competence and expertise through lifelong education and learning; take steps to encourage competence in science as a whole.
• Legality: Know and obey relevant rules and institutional and governmental policies.
• Animal Care: Show appropriate respect and care for animals when using them in research. Don’t conduct needless or poorly designed animal experiments.
• Human Subjects Protection: During research on human subjects, reduce destructions and risks and maximize benefits; respect human self-respect, autonomy and confidentiality.