Good scientific practice

Good scientific practice for publications:

best practice of the German Research Foundation (DFG) regarding methods, results, author/co-authorship.
Publishing Open Access: the MPDL supports Open Access, check the OA Journal finder and/or contact Kirsten at the library - choose the CC-BY license!
Archiving of your publication via the Publication Repository PuRe (MPG) is guaranteed - for data - contact your IT and check the Research Data management page of the library.

The internal peer review process for export control at BGC is described on the Intranet.

Very important for members of the IMPRS Biogeochemistry and IMPRS Chemical Ecology:
Ombudsperson for the MPI chemical ecology is Grit Kunert, please check the Intranet page
Ombudsperson for the MPI Biogeochmistry is Marion Schrumpf.

Some literature and links to important articles and websites:

• MPG: Rules of Conduct for good scientific practice (2021)
• Check for publication integrity before misconduct Nature 577, 167-169 (2020) doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-03959-6 includes the "reappraised" checklist for evaluation of publication integrity
• Andrew Grey, (et. al.): A tool that focuses on papers — not researcher behaviour — can help readers, editors and institutions assess which publications to trust.  Nature 577, 167-169 (2020) (not open access)
• Grifka, J. (2018)  Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis: Korrektes Vorgehen bei Veröffentlichungen. Forschung & Lehre, 25(10), 874-877 (German only)
• Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication:  Report of the Expert Group to the European Commission , Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2019   ISBN978-92-79-97238-6 doi: 10.2777/836532
• DFG good scientific practice page