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Hong Kong Principles (2020)

Five principles for assessing researchers, articulated by Moher and colleagues at the 6th World Conference on Research Integrity in Hong Kong (2019) and published in 2020, designed to incentivise responsible research practices through hiring, promotion, and funding decisions. An institution adheres to the principles if its assessment processes embody all five.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A university revising its promotion criteria to give explicit weight to data-sharing, preregistration, and reproducible-method contributions in addition to publication output.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A hiring committee that ranks candidates strictly by h-index and journal impact factor with no attention to research practice quality.

Editorial commentary

The five principles are: (1) assess responsible research practices, (2) value complete reporting, (3) reward the practice of open science (open research), (4) acknowledge a broad range of research activities (including peer review, mentorship, data stewardship), and (5) recognise essential other tasks like peer review and mentoring. The framework complements DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, 2012) and CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment, 2022) by shifting incentives away from narrow bibliometrics toward integrity-aligned behaviours.

References

Moher, Bouter, Kleinert et al. (2020) 'The Hong Kong Principles for assessing researchers'
Hong Kong Principles (2020)

Also known as

Hong Kong Principles · Hong Kong Principles for Assessing Researchers

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