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Promoting Research Excellence - Workshop Series

Purpose

In partnership with the OSU Edmon Low Library, the Division of the Vice President for Research has launched a new series of workshops, Promoting Research Excellence (“PRE”) for OSU faculty. The overarching theme of the series is research integrity from inception through dissemination, addressing issues that arise during the life cycle of a research study and providing suggestions for best practices.

 

The intent of the workshop series, Promoting Research Excellence is to build a community of practice on being a successful scholar in an academic environment – which squarely aligns the OSU strategy to become the PREeminent land-grant university.

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Topics

These workshops will provide education and training on topics such as...

  • Data management (e.g., How to Write a Good Data Management Plan for a Grant Application)
  • Effective research collaboration (e.g., How to Avoid Authorship Disputes)
  • How to articulate your scholarly impact (e.g., How to Identify a Suitable Journal for Publication; Is Open Science a Friend or Foe?)
  • Using generative AI ethically and responsibly (e.g., Ethical (?) Uses of Generative AI to Support Your Research)
  • Sessions for early career faculty and graduate students (e.g., Safety Issues in Research – Safeguarding Individuals, Teams, and Projects)

Format and Audience

Workshops will be offered once a month via Zoom during the academic year (August – May). (Note: Sessions will not be recorded.)

While the series is intended for faculty, graduate students are welcome to attend sessions.

 

Fall 2025 Schedule

From Contribution to Credit: Navigating Authorship and Contributorship

Authorship credit is defined and awarded in diverse ways, varying across disciplines, journals, and even research teams. This workshop will explore the spectrum of scholarly contributions and examine various frameworks, such as rubrics and taxonomies like the CRediT system, that can help research teams think through questions of authorship and contributor recognition earlier, rather than later, in the process . We'll explore the evolving concept of contributorship as an alternative or supplement to traditional authorship models, and consider processes for making authorship decisions more transparent and equitable. Rather than offering prescriptive answers, this session will provide attendees with tools for reflection and frameworks for discussion, while recognizing that these determinations ultimately depend on disciplinary norms, collaborative relationships, and specific project contexts.

 

How to Have Intentional Conversations with Your Students about Authorship Credit: A Faculty Panel

A panel of faculty members will share tips for how to have deliberate discussions in your lab about planned manuscripts and authorship credit. Panelists will share suggestions for setting expectations about authorship, including strategies for explaining how authorship credit works and how order of authors is determined. Recommendations for handling authorship disputes will also be discussed.

  • Presenters: Jeff Hadwiger (Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), Jennifer Jones (Professor, Human Development and Family Science), and Joy Scaria (Associate Professor, Veterinary Pathobiology)

  • Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025

  • Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

  • Location: Online

  • Register: https://okstate.libcal.com/calendar/events/authorship_conversations 

 

Who Did What, When, and Why: Research Recordkeeping with Authorship in Mind

Deciding who to include as authors on an academic publication can be a challenging and sometimes contentious process. This session will overview various aspects of research documentation, from project conceptualization through the drafting and editing phase. It will emphasize recordkeeping strategies to help maintain a paper trail of individual contributions to a project and facilitate authorship determination.

 

Questionable Authorship Practices: Understanding and Addressing the Challenges

Pressures to publish and compete for prestige can give rise to questionable authorship practices that compromise research integrity. These include gift authorship, manipulative affiliations, buying/selling authorship, hyperprolific publishing, and even fictitious authors. Such practices undermine trust in scholarship and can cause undue advantage or harm to researchers’ professional credibility and advancement. This session will survey these practices, examine some underlying causes, and consider approaches to addressing them, such as authorship taxonomies, clear institutional and journal policies, early contributor discussions, and transparent contributor statements.

 

Questions or Suggestions?

Do you have any suggestions for a workshop topic? Would you like to facilitate/lead a workshop? Email vprprograms@okstate.edu .

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