Procedural ethics for social science research
Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3916710 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Tapscott (0000-0002-0936-5191, University of York, corresponding author), Daniel Rincón Machón (0000-0002-1165-4777, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, UK) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 789-798 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peace Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00223433241249352 |
| OpenAlex | W4401642702 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 33 |
Conflict research is rife with ethical issues, and the field is increasingly reflecting on how to best address these. Recent debates in political science have mainly focused on ethics in practice, leaving questions of procedural ethics to the side. But procedural ethics are important: they are increasingly required across all areas of research, they are the bedrock of institutional approaches to regulating ethics, and they shape ideas about what constitutes ethical research practice. This article introduces the Research Ethics Governance dataset, the first globally comprehensive dataset of national-level ethics regulations. The dataset provides a picture of the status of research ethics regulations and how they pertain to conflict research. While 87% of countries have requirements for ethical review, only 25% extend those regulations to the social sciences. Of countries with no evidence of requirements, nearly half are classed as fragile or conflict-affected states. The data will be useful for scholars concerned with questions of research ethics, as well as those seeking to study the politics of this regulatory structure and its implications for knowledge production
Applied ethics · Corporate governance · Engineering ethics · Field (mathematics) · Information ethics · Management · Meta-ethics · Nursing ethics · Political science · Politics · Research ethics · Sociology · Engineering · Ethics in Clinical Research · Ethics in medical practice · Law
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |