Acesso à informação sobre boas práticas em pesquisa: Guia de Ética e integridade científica na Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Abstract

This research highlights the importance of promoting scientific and information integrity, reinforcing ethics in research and ensuring access to information. It also seeks to establish high standards of rigor, transparency, truthfulness, responsibility, and reliability in academic-scientific practices, thereby contributing to the consolidation of a scientific community aligned with regulatory parameters of science. The field of investigation was the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), focusing on the coordinators of Graduate Programs (PPGs), with the aim of understanding the profile of the coordinators and their programs, the institutional practices and initiatives, the needs and challenges faced, the references and good practices adopted, as well as suggestions for the format and accessibility of the final product of this research. The central objective was to contribute to strengthening the culture of ethics and scientific integrity in academic research conducted at UFS through the development of an Ethics and Scientific Integrity Guide, designed to orient responsible practices and promote critical reflection on research conduct. In this sense, this investigation is configured as a Case Study, aimed at understanding the different realities of the selected PPGs, making it possible to approximate the cases and contribute to meeting the needs identified in the academic community. With a qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were used as the main data collection instrument, complemented by an exploratory survey of institutional websites of Brazilian federal universities, in order to analyze ethics guides already implemented. For data analysis, Content Analysis by Laurence Bardin (2011) was applied. The results indicate that the development of the Ethics and Scientific Integrity Guide highlights the need to expand training actions on research ethics at UFS, in line with national and international standards that govern scientific integrity. Furthermore, the absence of a consolidated material in this area reinforces the strategic relevance of such a guide, especially in light of contemporary challenges, such as the misuse of Artificial Intelligence in academic research, which demand clear institutional positions in an increasingly hyperconnected society.