Integrity and Intellectual Honesty Questions

Assessment of ethical and professional standards in research. Topics include acknowledging limitations and uncertainty, giving proper credit to collaborators, authorship norms, disclosure of conflicts of interest, transparent reporting of negative results, correcting or retracting mistaken work, handling suspected data problems, and enforcing reproducibility and data integrity. Interviewers probe how candidates balance pressure to publish with scientific rigor and how they create or support an honest research culture.