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Series 1. Research Ethics, Why Is It Necessary?

Even though it has been increased the interest of research ethics and progressed research ethics education after Hwang’s scandal in 2005, many researchers have still unconcerned the research ethics and think that it is a kind of restricts which limit researcher’s free research activities. The primary premise of this article is that the research ethics plays an important role to improve researcher, academic community and nation. So I emphasize that according to the integrative approach for an establishment of a desirable research ethics the research ethics consciousness of researcher’s and institution or system to support responsible conduct of research (RCR) should be harmonized. In this paper, I discuss some basic contents of research ethics which researcher must understand and fulfill for RCR, such as the backgrounds, concept and principles, scope, importance of research ethics and task for research ethics establishment.

Keywords : Research ethics, Research integrity, Research ethics education, Plagiarism, Social responsibility of researcher