The Code of Conduct for Academic Practice[Practice [1] contains six principles for proper scientific practice. The preamble to the 2014 version clearly indicates that not only do these standards apply to researchers, but the board of the university or research institute is also obligated to promote compliance to the code. An elaboration on monitoring the quality of data collection, entry, storage and processing is provided under the principle of verifiability. This principle ensures that others are able to check whether the information presented in a publication satisfies the relevant standards of quality and reliability.
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