Nutrition as a scientific field continues to mushroom over the past 20 years, expanding further through several subdisciplines such as nutrigenomics, molecular nutrition, and nutritional epidemiology. Still, providing relevant and strong evidence-based knowledge in nutritional science appears to face many challenges, from reproducibility problems to issues related to industry-supported research and transparency in conflict of interest.
The main aim of this Research Topic is to address various issues related to the scientific integrity in nutritional science, including methodological factors of replication crisis (and how to handle it), problems with scientific decision making in public health nutrition, ethical issues in human and animal nutritional research, funders’ influence on research design and results reporting, fairness in peer review, etc.
This Research Topic welcomes original articles, systematic reviews, methods articles, reviews and mini-reviews, policy and practice reviews, opinion and perspective papers, and study protocols. Of particular interest will be the articles exploring empirical guidelines addressing scientific decision-making in nutritional science from an epidemiological perspective. The information presented here will provide a foundation for developing a theoretical and practical paradigm of research integrity in nutrition.
Nutrition as a scientific field continues to mushroom over the past 20 years, expanding further through several subdisciplines such as nutrigenomics, molecular nutrition, and nutritional epidemiology. Still, providing relevant and strong evidence-based knowledge in nutritional science appears to face many challenges, from reproducibility problems to issues related to industry-supported research and transparency in conflict of interest.
The main aim of this Research Topic is to address various issues related to the scientific integrity in nutritional science, including methodological factors of replication crisis (and how to handle it), problems with scientific decision making in public health nutrition, ethical issues in human and animal nutritional research, funders’ influence on research design and results reporting, fairness in peer review, etc.
This Research Topic welcomes original articles, systematic reviews, methods articles, reviews and mini-reviews, policy and practice reviews, opinion and perspective papers, and study protocols. Of particular interest will be the articles exploring empirical guidelines addressing scientific decision-making in nutritional science from an epidemiological perspective. The information presented here will provide a foundation for developing a theoretical and practical paradigm of research integrity in nutrition.