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Jin: What is good research & Who is good researcher?
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Journal of Korean Academy of Oral Health 2019; 43(2): 41-42.

Published online: 28 June 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11149/jkaoh.2019.43.2.41

What is good research & Who is good researcher?

Bo-Hyoung Jin

Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Korean Academy of Oral Health

Copyright © 2019 by Journal of Korean Academy of Oral Health

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According to the US Department of HHS regulations, 45 CFR part 46.102, research is defined as a systematic investigation covering research development, testing, and evaluation to develop or contribute to general knowledge. A research is termed ‘good’ when it comes up with reliable interpretations based on well-designed experiments and adequate controls.
An ideal researcher, who carries out good research with honesty must aim for sound information transmission, accurate reporting of research results, consideration of every possible error, effective coverage of proper resources, and unbiased objectivity.
Also, researchers should always flexible and receptive to recent information. Under rapidly changing research environment, reporting the research results is becoming more crucial, so the researchers should critically select appropriate information and publish it to the research environment.
Recently, the Journal of Korean Academy of Oral health (JKAOH) has been revising some of the instruction of manuscript to improve the quality of the journal, especially in relation to gender regulations. In the health and life science studies, gender innovation research is actively being carried out to increase academic quality and eliminate gender discrimination. The revised gender-related regulations state that the terminology ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ should be used accurately according to their purposes.
In general, the term ‘sex’ should only be used in biological circumstances, whereas ‘gender’ should be used when describing social, psychological, and cultural issues. Also, in the analysis of the research results, it is necessary to provide a comparative analysis and interpretation of the differences between sex or gender. If the study is carried using only one sex (or gender), the researchers should clearly state appropriate reasons for that.
Gender regulations are based on the fact that the majority of previous research results developed under the male-dominated research environment is not suitable for women. The equal consideration of both gender is the key to any future research in this area. Therefore, the authors of the journals should be tolerant to this change and apply it in the whole research processes: research planning, implementation, analysis, reporting, etc.
Along with gender considerations, actively engaging, cooperative, and tolerant character of researchers is essential to build milestone and correctly drive future research in the field of dental science.
June 2019
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