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Representative Recent Publications

Forthcoming:

• “Why and How to Incorporate Issues of Race and Gender in Research Integrity Education.” Accountability in Research (July2023)

• “Trust Architectures in Research,” Res Philosophica 100(4), 497-514, October 2023

• “Authorship agreements benefit researchers and research culture.” Nature Human Behavior November 9, 2023

2023

• Caren Cooper, Vincent Martin, Omega Wilson, and Lisa Rasmussen, “Equitable Data Governance Models for the Participatory Sciences.” Community Science. Published online 5/12/23. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022CSJ000025

• Hosseini, Mohammad; Lisa M. Rasmussen; and David B. Resnik. “Using AI to write scholarly publications,” Accountability in Research. (Editorial.) Published online 1/25/23. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989621.2023.2168535

• Wexler, Anna; Rebekah Choi; Alex Pearlman; and Lisa M. Rasmussen. “Navigating Biosafety Concerns within COVID-19 Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Science: An Ethnographic and Interview Study.” Biosocieties. Published online 3/28/23.

2022

• Guerrini, Christi J., Joanna Kempner, Lisa M. Rasmussen, and Anna Wexler (2022). “Diverse, emergent, disruptive: perspectives on and developments in biomedical citizen science,” Introduction to a Special Collection on biomedical citizen science, Citizen Science: Theory and Practice. https://theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/articles/10.5334/cstp.598/

• Cooper, C. B., Rasmussen, L.M., and Jones, E. D. 2022a. “A Toolkit for Data Ethics in the Participatory Sciences.” Citizen Science Association.https://citizenscience.org/data-ethics/

• Cooper, C. B., Rasmussen, L.M., and Jones, E. D. 2022b. Data Ethics Tutorial. SciStarter.org. (Based on toolkit above.) Available at: https://scistarter.org/training-dataethics

2021

• Christi J. Guerrini, Norah L. Crossnohere, Lisa Rasmussen, John F.P. Bridges (2021). “A best-worst scaling experiment to prioritize concern about ethical issues in citizen science reveals heterogeneity on people-level v. data-level issues.” Scientific Reports 11:19119. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96743-4.

• Caren B. Cooper, Lisa M. Rasmussen, and Elizabeth Jones (2021). “Perspective: The Power (Dynamics) of Open Data in Citizen Science,” Frontiers in Climate 3. Published online July 6, 2021. DOI: 10.3389/fclim.2021.637037

2020

• “Research Ethics in Citizen Science,” invited submission to Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics. Accepted August 2020; in publication process.

• Human Guinea Pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby: A Reprint with Commentaries (Editor). Dordrecht: Springer Nature. June 2020. (Editor)

• “Of Mites and Men: What WWII Scabies Research Can Teach Us About Unregulated Research,” commentary essay in Human Guinea Pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby: A Reprint with Commentaries. Dordrecht: SpringerNature. June 2020.

• “Authorship Policies at US Doctoral Universities: A Review and Recommendations for Future Policies.” Science and Engineering Ethics. Rasmussen, Lisa M., Courtney E. Williams, Mary Hausfield, George C. Banks, and Bailey C. Davis. Online first, November 19, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-020-00273-7

2019

• Confronting Research Misconduct in Citizen Science (Citizen Science: Theory and Practice)

• Special Issue Collection Guest Co-Editor (with Caren Cooper), “Ethical Issues in Citizen Science” (Citizen Science: Theory and Practice)

Grants

2020

• National Science Foundation, ER2 (“Ethical and Responsible Research”). RAPID grant, “Assessing Ethical Challenges in Conducting Do-it-yourself (DIY) Science During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Co-Investigator. Approximately $150,000 awarded July 2020. (#2032598)

• National Science Foundation, ER2 (“Ethical and Responsible Research”). Transformation grant, “Fostering a Culture of Openness and Transparency with Institutional Authorship Policies,” Principal Investigator. Approximately $585,000 awarded July 2020. (#2024200)

2019

• National Science Foundation, CCE STEM (“Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM”). Transformation grant, “Fostering a Culture of Openness and Transparency with Institutional Authorship Policies,” PI, approximately $600,000. Submitted February 2019. Not awarded.

2018

• National Science Foundation, CCE STEM (“Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM”). Standard grant, “Establishing Norms of Data Ethics in Citizen Science,” Co-PI, approximately $400,000. Awarded August 2018. (#1835352)

2017

• National Science Foundation. “Filling the ‘Ethics Gap’ in Citizen Science,” proposal for a conference. $25,000. Awarded January 2017.