College of Education and Human Development

Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Melissa Anderson

  • Professor Emerita

Melissa Anderson

Areas of interest

Research integrity
Scientific misconduct
International research collaborations
Graduate education

Degrees

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, higher education
M.S., University of Iowa, mathematics
B.A., St. Olaf College, mathematics

Biography

Profile

Melissa S. Anderson is professor of higher education and former associate dean of the Graduate School at the University of Minnesota. She is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Her NIH- and NSF-funded research over the past 30 years has been in the areas of research integrity, scientific misconduct, international research collaboration, and academy-industry relations, with particular attention to the research environment. She was principal investigator of a study funded by the NIH on international research collaborations, and co-editor, with Nicholas Steneck, of International Research Collaborations: Much to be Gained, Many Ways to Get in Trouble (Routledge, 2010). She served as co-chair, with Sabine Kleinert, Senior Executive Editor of The Lancet, of the 3rd (Montréal) and 4th (Rio de Janeiro) World Conferences on Research Integrity and as a member of the Executive Board of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation. Professor Anderson chaired the AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility through its recent development and adoption of the AAAS Statement on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility and the related website. She has served on the editorial boards of Science and Engineering Ethics, the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, Research Integrity and Peer Review, the International Journal for Research Integrity, and Accountability in Research. The publication in Nature of the paper "Scientists Behaving Badly" by Martinson, Anderson, and DeVries, was named by Discover as one of the top 100 events in science in the world in 2005. She has served on numerous advisory boards for national and international research surveys. She is also a published poet.

Honors and awards

Robert H. Beck Faculty Teaching Award, Alumni Society of the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development (2005)
Distinguished Teaching Award University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development (1998)

Publications

Anderson, Melissa S. (2018). Shifting perspectives on research integrity. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 13(5), 459-460.

Steneck, Nicholas H., Mayer, Tony, Anderson, Melissa S., and Kleinert, Sabine. (2017). The origin, objectives, and evolution of the World Conferences on Research Integrity. In Linda C. Gundersen (ed.), Scientific Integrity and Ethics, with Application to the Geosciences. New York: Wiley.

Anderson, Melissa S., and Frankel, Mark S. (2017). Origin and development of the 2017 AAAS Statement on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. Published October18, 2017 on the AAAS website.

Anderson, Melissa S., Adam, Jamal A., and Snyder, Seth. Research integrity: International perspectives. (2016). In Tracey Bretag (Ed.), Handbook of Academic Integrity. New York: Springer.

Anderson, Melissa S., and Kleinert, Sabine (Eds.) Proceedings of the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity. (2016). Research Integrity and Peer Review, 1(Supplement 1):9. DOI: 10.1186/s41073-016-0012-9

Anderson, Melissa S., and Bouter, Lex. (2016). Focus track on improving research systems: The role of institutions. In Melissa S. Anderosn and Sabine Kleinert (Eds.). Proceedings of the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity, Research Integrity and Peer Review, 1(Supplement 1):9.

Steneck, Nicholas H., Anderson, Melissa S., Kleinert, Sabine, and Mayer, Tony (Eds.) Integrity in the Global Research Arena. (2015). Hackensack, New Jersey: World Scientific.

Anderson, Melissa S. (2015). Review of Barbara K. Redman: Research Misconduct Policy in Biomedicine: Beyond the Bad-Apple Approach, MIT Press, 2013. Kennedy Review of Ethics Journal. Available at: kiej.georgetown.edu/book-reviews/archive/redman-2013.

Anderson, Melissa S., and Adam, Jamal A. (2014). A proposal for considering research integrity from the perspective of behavioral economics. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education, 15(2), 173-176. Republished in Elliott, Samantha L., Fischer, Beth A., Grinnell, Frederick, and Zigmond, Michael J. (eds.), Perspectives on Research Integrity, (2015), Washington, D.C.: ASM Press, p.167-173.

Anderson, Melissa S. (2014). Global research integrity in relation to the United States' research-integrity infrastructure. Accountability in Research, 21(1), 1-8.

Anderson, Melissa S., Shaw, Marta A., Steneck, Nicholas H., Konkle, Erin, and Kamata, Takehito. (2013). Research integrity and misconduct in the academic profession. In Michael B. Paulsen, ed., Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol.28. New York: Springer, 217-261.

Anderson, Melissa S., and Kamata, Takehito. (2013). Scientific research integrity as a matter of transparency. In Transparency International, Global Corruption Report: Education. New York: Routledge, 211-215.

Anderson, Melissa S. (2013). Nasty priority disputes. A review of Prize Fight: The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science, by Morton A. Meyers. Nature Medicine, 19(10), 1205.

Anderson, Melissa S., and Shaw, Marta A. (2012). A framework for examining codes of conduct on research integrity. In Mayer, Tony, and Steneck, Nicholas (Eds.), Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. New Jersey: World Scientific.

Vasconcelos, Sonia, Steneck, Nicholas H., Anderson, Melissa S., Masuda, Hatisaburo, Pinto, Jos, Sorenson, Martha, and Palacios, Marisa. (2012). The new geography of scientific collaborations. EMBO Reports. doi:10.1038/embor.2012.51

Anderson, Melissa S. (2012). Commentary on "Honorary authorship epidemic in scholarly publication? How the current use of citation-based evaluative metrics make (pseudo)honoary authors from honest contributors of every multiauthor article". Journal of Medical Ethics, doi: 10.1136/medethics-2012-100940.

Anderson, Melissa S. (2012). Catch system gamers. Nature, 481, 23.

Anderson, Melissa S. (2011). Toward a global science ethics code.  CTA Knowledge for Development website. Wageningen, Netherlands:  CTA.  (knowledge.cta.int/en/content/view/full/14035)

Anderson, Melissa S., Chiteng Kot, F., Shaw, M. A., Lepkowski, C. C., & De Vries, R. G. (2011). Authorship issues in international research collaborations. American Scientist, 99(3), 204-207.

Anderson, Melissa S., & Steneck, N. H. (2011). The problem of plagiarism. Urologic oncology: Seminars and original investigations, 29(1), 90-94.

Anderson, Melissa S., & Steneck, N. H. (Eds.). (2010). International research collaborations: Much to be gained, many ways to get in trouble. New York: Routledge.

Anderson, Melissa S. (2010). What can be gained and what can go wrong in the context of different national research environments. In M. S. Anderson, & N. H. Steneck (Eds.), International research collaborations: Much to be gained, many ways to get in trouble. New York: Routledge.

Bohnhorst, M. A., McQuaid, M., Tsantir, S. R. B., Amundson, D. M., & Anderson, Melissa S. (2010). Legal and regulatory considerations in international research collaborations. In M. S. Anderson & N. H. Steneck (Eds.), International research collaborations: Much to be gained, many ways to get in trouble. New York: Routledge.

Anderson, Melissa S., & Steneck, N. H. (2010). Realizing gains and staying out of trouble. In M. S. Anderson & N. H. Steneck (Eds.), International research collaborations: Much to be gained, many ways to get in trouble. New York: Routledge.

Anderson, Melissa S., Chiteng Kot, F., Jie, Y., Kamata, T., Kuzhabekova, A., Lepkowski, C. C., Shaw, M. A., Sorenson, M. M., & Vasconcelos, S. M. R. (2010). Differences in national approaches to doctoral education: Implications for international research collaborations. In M. S. Anderson & N. Steneck (Eds.), International research collaborations: Much to be gained, many ways to get in trouble. New York: Routledge.

Martinson, B. C., Crain, A. L., De Vries, R., &  Anderson, Melissa S. (2010). The importance of organizational justice in ensuring research integrity. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 5(3), 67-83.

Anderson, Melissa S. (2010). International research collaborations: Anticipating challenges instead of being surprised.  Europa World of Learning 2011 (61 ed., Vol. 1, pp. 14-18) London: Routledge.

Anderson, Melissa S. (2010). Research misconduct and misbehavior in relation to the research environment. In T. Bertam Gallant (Ed.), Creating the ethical academy: A systems approach to understanding misconduct and empowering change. New York: Routledge.

Anderson, Melissa S., Ronning, E. A., Martinson, B. C., & De Vries, R. (2010). Extending the Mertonian norms: Scientists' subscription to norms of research. Journal of Higher Education.

Martinson, B. C., Crain, A. L., Anderson, Melissa S., & De Vries, R. (2009). Institutions’ expectations for researchers’ self-funding, federal grant holding, and private industry involvement: Manifold drivers of self-interest and researcher behavior. Academic Medicine, 84(11), 1491-1499.

Anderson, Melissa S. (2009). Who is in charge?: Research integrity in the international context. Research Global, 22, 12-13.

Louis, K. S., Holdsworth, J., Anderson, Melissa S., & Campbell, E. G. (2008). Everyday ethics in research: Translating authorship guidelines into practice in the bench sciences. Journal of Higher Education, 79(1), 88-112.

Vogeli, C., Yucal, R., Bendavid, E., Jones, L. M., Anderson, Melissa S., Louis, K. S., & Campbell, E. G. (2006). Data withholding and the next generation of scientists: Results of a National Survey. Academic Medicine, 81(2), 128-136.

Martinson, B. C., Anderson, Melissa S., & De Vries, R. (2006). Scientists' perceptions of organizational justice and self-reported misbehaviors. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 1(1), 51-66.

De Vries, R., Anderson, Melissa S., & Martinson, B. C. (2006). Normal misbehavior: Scientists talk about the ethics of research. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 1(1), 43-50.

Martinson, B. C., Anderson, Melissa S., & De Vries, R. (2005). Scientists behaving badly. Nature, 435, 737-738.

Presentations

University of Hong Kong (2019, June)

Conference on Research Integrity and Trustworthy Science, University of Minnesota (2018, (March, 2018)

Webinar: Project on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility: AAAS Statement and Resources. American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017, July)

Expert session on research on research integrity, 5th World Conference on Research Integrity, Amsterdam (2017, May)

Quality Assurance Research Reproducibility Collaborative, University of Minnesota (2017, March)

AAAS Symposium in honor of Mark S. Frankel, Washington, D.C. (2016, November)

4th World Conference on Research Integrity, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2015, June)

Dean dialogue: International issues in graduate research ethics education, Council of Graduate Schools, Portland, Oregon (2014, July)

International Collaborative Research Forum, University of Minnesota (2014, October)

International Seminar on Research Ethics, Plagiarism, and Copyrights, University of Oslo, Oslo, (2014, September)

Seminar on Improving Scientific Practice: Dealing with Human Factors, University of Amsterdam (2014, September)

Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania (2014, March)

3rd World Conference on Research Integrity, Montréal, Canada (2013, May)

Conference on the Office of Research Integrity at 20 Years, Baltimore (2013, April)

Symposium on Research Integrity, Aarhus University, Denmark (2013, April)

Zhejiang University, China (2012, September)

Sino-American Workshop on Research Ethics Education (China Association for Science and Technology and American Association for the Advancement of Science), Hangzhou, China (2012, September)

Mingda Institute, delegation from the Beijing Education Commission (2012, November)

Grand Rounds presentation, University of Minnesota Medical School (2012, August)

EuroScience Open Forum, Dublin (2012, July)

Royal Irish Academy, Dublin (2012, July)

Curie Institute, Paris (2012, April)

Workshop on Plagiarism, All European Academies/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011, December)

Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society (2011, November)

Workshop on Research Practices, Research Ethics and Integrity, and Their Governance, Harvard University (2011, May)

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. (2011, February)

National Science Council of Taiwan / Academia Sinica Workshop on Research Integrity.  Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2010, December)

University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (2010, October)

Science in Question series, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany (2010, October)

Second World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore (2010, July)

Center for Excellence, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany (2010, May)

American Educational Research Association, Denver (2010, April)

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Cincinnati (2010, March)

European Science Foundation / Office of Research Integrity Workshop on Responsible Conduct of Research:  Good Research Practices and Research Integrity Training, Strasbourg, France (2009, October)

University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School and Program in Biological Sciences (2009, October)

Society of Research Administrators, Seattle (2009, October)

National Institutes of Health: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Inter-Institute Bioethics Interest Group; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Scientific Resource Development Team; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Strategic Planning and Evaluation Branch (2009, June)

Joint workshop of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) San Diego (2009, April)

American Educational Research Association, San Diego (2009, April)

Society of Research Administrators, Washington DC (2008, October)

Workshop on Ethics Education and Scientific and Engineering Research: What's Been Learned? What Should Be Done? National Academy of Engineering and National Science Foundation (2008, August)

Conference on Developments in Research and Theory on Higher Education Organization, Athens, Georgia (2008, May)

Fourth International Barcelona Conference of the Global University Network for Innovation, Barcelona, Spain (2008, April)

First Biennial Conference on Responsible Conduct of Research: Education/Instruction/Training, St. Louis (2008, April)

American Educational Research Association, New York (2008, March)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, New York (2007, October)