Xinhua Credit Wuhan   On November 26 (Reporter Rui Yu) The third "Scientific Research Integrity and Academic Norms" seminar was held at Wuhan University. Experts who attended the seminar believed that academic norms and scientific research integrity were the bottom line of academic research, and the authority of academic supervision should be rebuilt up.

Hongbing Shu, expressed in his speech that Wuhan University had put forward a series of positive and effective measures in addition to adhering to the principle of zero tolerance for academic misconduct, which fully embodied the spirit of "Correct ways for academic research, integrity as virtue" advocated by Wuhan University for hundreds of years, and Wuhan University had been creating a more favorable environment for teachers and students to grow up in the field of scientific research.

Yuguang Wang, Director of Steering Committee of Library Science Teaching in College of Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, believed that academic norms and academic innovation were not contradictory, and the rigidity of writing pattern should be avoided while abiding by the norm.

Feicheng Ma, Senior Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wuhan University, pointed out that the primary intention of educators was to cultivate people by virtue, and scientific research integrity was just an important section of virtue. He hoped that via this kind of seminar, young scholars should pay more attention to scientific research integrity and academic norms.

Mingdong Huang, Associate Dean of Undergraduate School at Wuhan University, put forward that the responsibility of colleges and universities was to educate talents for country and society. Teaching and scientific research were the core of educating talents.

Prof. Jiyuan Ye, School of Information Management at Nanjing University, emphasized that academic norms should run through the whole process of education. There were some problems in the courses of academic norms in colleges and universities, such as the teaching materials need to be improved, the shortage of teachers, and the lack of organic combination of general norms and individual norms. At the same time, he raised some specific countermeasures, such as editing teaching materials of scientific research integrity and academic norms, recording online courses and holding teacher training courses regularly.

Prof. Zizhou Wang, Department of Information Management at Peking University, focused on the academic norms and principles of avoiding plagiarism, signing reasonably, submitting correctly, not writing book reviews for stakeholders, and quoting reasonably.

Xingyu Hou, senior operational director of Research Ethics Committee of Supervision and Auditing Bureau at Chinese Academy of Sciences, suggested that reconstructing the authority of academic supervision was of great significance to improve the supervision system of the state and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. Facts, attitudes and procedures were indispensable in the process of academic supervision. Education and punishment should be carried out equally.

Besides, Peking University - CPVIP Academic Big Data Application Laboratory published The Research Report on Papers with High Citation in First-level Disciplines of Humanities and Social Sciences (2019), which was explained carefully by Prof. Jimin Wang, Department of Information Management at Peking University. This report was mainly based on Chinese journal titles and citation data provided by CPVIP. It analyzed the year of publication, times of citation, institution distribution, journal distribution, fund support and citation network of high-citation papers in first-level disciplines, and presented the distribution and development status of high-citation papers in first-level disciplines comprehensively.

According to the introduction, the seminar was co-sponsored by Steering Committee of Library Science Teaching in College of Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Academic Research Committee of Library Society of China, Department of Information Management of Peking University and School of Information Management of Wuhan University. Nearly 300 representatives from universities and research institutes attended the seminar.

[The original news in Chinese was published at Xinhua Credit]