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In a statement made by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), they adopted the definition of Scientific Integrity as stated below. This policy is currently being reviewed and will be officially published in early 2024." Scientific integrity is the adherence to professional practices, ethical behavior, and the principles of honesty and objectivity when conducting, managing, using the results of, and communicating about science and scientific activities. Inclusivity, transparency, and protection from inappropriate influence are hallmarks of scientific integrity."-HHS  To promote a culture of scientific integrity at HHS, they have outlined their policy in seven specific areas:
Protecting Scientific Processes
Ensuring the Free Flow of Scientific Information
Supporting Policymaking Processes
Ensuring Accountability
Protecting Scientists
Professional Development for Government Scientists
Federal Advisory Committees
As a result of these areas, open science practices can be promoted to protect against bias, plagiarism, and data fabrication, falsification as well as inappropriate influencing, political interference, and censorship.

===== National Institute of Health =====

The National Institute of Health (NIH) is a branch of the HHS. They act as the nation's medical research agency which focuses on making important discoveries that improve health and save lives. The mission of NIH is to provide a fundamental understanding of the nature and behavior of living systems and applying that understanding to improve health, extend life, and reduce illness and disability. The NIH fosters the definition of Scientific Integrity from the HHS Scientific Integrity Policy draft to ensure their scientific findings are objective, creditable, transparent, and readily available to the public. All NIH staff are expected to:

Foster an organizational Culture of Scientific Integrity
Protect the Integrity of the Research Process
Communicate Science with Integrity
Safeguard Scientific Integrity

== See also ==

Academic careerism
Academic integrity
Replication crisis
Research Integrity Risk Index

== References ==

== Bibliography ==

=== Books & Thesis ===
Babbage, Charles (1830). Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831). B. Fellowes.
Merton, Robert K. (1973). The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-52092-6.
Broad, William J.; Wade, Nicholas (1983). Betrayers of the Truth. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-44769-4.
Suber, Peter (2012-07-20). Open Access. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-51763-8.
Rentier, Bernard (2019-03-08). Open Science, the challenge of transparency (1er édition ed.). Académie royale de Belgique.
Pimple, Kenneth D., ed. (2017-05-15). Research Ethics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-90400-1.

=== Reports ===
Pauly, Gerhard (2021). OSCAR open science code of conduct (Report). Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
Henriet, M Pierre; Ouzoulias, M Pierre (2021). Promouvoir et protéger une culture partagée de l'intégrité scientifique (Report). Assemblée nationale.