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Representative Recent Publications

• Elise Demeter, George Banks, Andrew McBride, Holly Holladay-Sandidge, Katherine Hall-Hertel, and Lisa Rasmussen. (2026). “Faculty-Student Differences in Authorship Perceptions Before and After Authorship Ethics Interventions,” Accountability in Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2026.2651757

• Lisa M. Rasmussen, Alex Pearlman, Rebekah Choi, and Anna Wexler (2025). “Research Infrastructure Challenges in Non-Establishment Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 10(1): 26, pp. 1–12. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.805

• Elise Demeter, Andrew McBride, Holly Holladay-Sandidge, Lisa M. Rasmussen, George Banks and Katherine Hall-Hertel (2025). “Intervention to Promote Ethical Authorship Practices in Graduate Education,” Science and Engineering Ethics 31(22). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-025-00548-x

• “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.

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.