Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance is devoted to the examination and critical analysis of systems for maximizing integrity in the conduct of research. It provides an interdisciplinary, international forum for the development of ethics, procedures, standards policies, and concepts to encourage the ethical conduct of research and to enhance the validity of research results. 
The journal welcomes views on advancing the integrity of research in the fields of general  and multidisciplinary sciences, medicine, law, economics, statistics, management studies, public policy, politics, sociology, history, psychology, philosophy, ethics, and information science.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind (some reviewers opt to have their identity known, however) and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.

EDITOR IN CHIEF
Adil E. Shamoo, Ph.D. 
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 
University of Maryland School of Medicine 
Baltimore, Maryland 21201-1503 USA 
Tel: 410-706-3327, Fax: 410-706-3189 
E-mail:  airshamoo@gmail.com
Associate Editor For “Descriptive Ethics” and Book Reviews 
Sheldon Krimsky, Ph.D.
Department of Urban and Environment Policy
Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Tel: 617-627-3394, Fax: 317-627-3377 
E-mail: sheldon.krimsky@tufts.edu
 
Associate Editor For “Normative Ethics”  and Letters to the Editor 
David B. Resnik, Ph.D. 
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA 
Tel: 919-967-5634, Fax: 919-541-3659 
E-mail: resnikd@niehs.nih.gov 

Associate Editor for Commentaries 
Zubin Master, Ph.D. 
Biomedical Ethics Research Program 
Mayo Clinic 
200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA 
Tel: 507-266-1105, Fax: 507-538-0850 
E-mail: master.zubin@mayo.edu 

Associate Editor 
Michael Kalichman, Ph.D. 
Center for Ethics in Science and Technology 
University of California, San Diego 
La Jolla, CA 92093-0612, USA 
Tel: 858-822-2027 
E-mail: mkalichman@ucsd.edu

EDITORIAL BOARD
Joseph Ali - Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 
Sheri Alpert - South Bend, IN, USA 
Alison L. Antes - Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA 
Melissa S. Anderson -  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Jason Borenstein - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 
Ruth H. Chadwick -  Institute for Environment, Philosophy, & Public Policy, Lancaster University, UK 
Michael Davis -  Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, IIT Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA 
Kenneth DeVille -  Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina, USA 
James M. DuBois - Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA 
Kevin C. Elliott - Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan  
Ruiping Fan - City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong 
Daniele Fanelli - Institute for the Study of Science, Technology & Innovation, Edinburgh, United Kingdom 
Elizabeth Heitman - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA 
Kohji Ishihara -  The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, La Jolla, California, USA 
Greg Koski -  Boston, Massachusetts, USA 
Michael D. Mumford  - University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA 
Dena Plemmons - University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Hans Radder - VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Jeffrey I. Seeman - University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, USA 
Michael Selgelid - Monash University, Victoria, Australia 
Kristin Shrader-Frechette -  Notre Dame, Indiana, USA 
Patricia Miller Tereskerz -  Charlottesville, Virginia, USA 
Ibo van de Poel -  Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Garrath Williams - Department of Politics, Philosophy & Religion, Lancaster University, United Kingdom