Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
An institution adopting the Singapore Statement as the preamble to its research-integrity policy.
Counter-examples
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- Not an instance
A national regulation that creates enforceable obligations, which the Singapore Statement deliberately does not.
Editorial commentary
The Singapore Statement on Research Integrity is a short consensus statement adopted at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, held in Singapore in 2010. It articulates four principles — honesty in all aspects of research, accountability in the conduct of research, professional courtesy and fairness in working with others, and good stewardship of research on behalf of others — and fourteen responsibilities covering integrity in reporting, adherence to regulations, appropriate research methods, careful record-keeping, honest reporting of findings, fair authorship, proper acknowledgement, responsible peer review, disclosure of conflicts of interest, responsible public communication, reporting misconduct, responding appropriately to allegations, sustaining a supportive research environment, and giving due weight to societal considerations.
It deliberately has no signatory mechanism, no enforcement body, and no reporting requirement — unlike, for example, the UK’s Concordat to Support Research Integrity, which is a signed, reporting-based sector commitment. That structural difference is the point: the Singapore Statement was designed as a short, translatable, globally portable reference document that individual institutions, funders, and national codes could adopt, adapt, or cite as a preamble rather than as a binding instrument in itself. A number of national research-integrity codes explicitly draw on it as a foundational reference, including codes developed through separate national consultation processes across universities, funders, and government agencies.
Because it sets out principles and responsibilities rather than a definition of misconduct or a disciplinary process, the Singapore Statement complements rather than replaces jurisdiction-specific frameworks such as the US federal FFP definition (42 CFR Part 93) or the ALLEA European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity — see research misconduct for how those enforceable definitions vary by jurisdiction. Institutions commonly cite the Singapore Statement in the preamble of their own research-integrity policy before setting out their jurisdiction’s actual enforceable rules.
References
- Singapore Statement on Research Integrity (2010), adopted at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity
- UK Concordat to Support Research Integrity (2nd edition, 2021)
Also known as
Singapore Statement · 2010 Singapore Statement
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