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The Cape Town Statement on fairness, equity and diversity in research

The benefits of scientific collaboration are too often skewed towards wealthier countries. Bioethicists and others present guidance on how stakeholders such as researchers can change this.
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  1. Lyn Horn

    1. Lyn Horn is a bioethicist and director of the Office of Research Integrity at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

  2. Sandra Alba

    1. Sandra Alba is an epidemiologist at KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam.

  3. Gowri Gopalakrishna

    1. Gowri Gopalakrishna is an epidemiologist and policy scientist at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

  4. Sabine Kleinert

    1. Sabine Kleinert is a senior executive editor at The Lancet, Munich, Germany.

  5. Francis Kombe

    1. Francis Kombe is a founding member of the African Research Integrity Network and a Wellcome Trust research fellow in Nairobi.

  6. James V. Lavery

    1. James V. Lavery is the Conrad N. Hilton Chair in Global Health Ethics, professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health in Rollins School of Public Health, and faculty of the Center for Ethics at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

  7. Retha G. Visagie

    1. Retha G. Visagie is the manager of the Office of Research Integrity at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.

Two male and one female students read books at a table in a library

Libraries in many institutions in low- and middle-income countries cannot finance a broad range of journal subscriptions. Credit: Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto/Getty

As awareness has grown about fraud and misconduct in science, the World Conferences on Research Integrity have become a leading forum for the discussion and study of ways to promote responsible behaviour in research. Since the first meeting in 2007, which was held in Lisbon, the events have helped to establish an academic field focused on research integrity.

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Nature 615, 790-793 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00855-y

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