A Framework for Codification of Values and Ethical Codes of Scientific and Technological Researches

It is expected that researchers pursue their research activities in a manner that is consistent with the professional ethics. Ethical codes represent the most important guidelines for researcher. While the importance of ethical issues/codes is well founded in the scientific research literature, no framework of ethical issues has been addressed and organized adequately. This study employed descriptive qualitative content analysis and open deductive codification to develop a framework of ethical issues from 30 organizations’ ethical codes. All of the organizations were related to scientific and technological research. This paper outlines a framework that addresses and organizes ethical issues in scientific researches. This framework organizes ethical issues within 10 stakeholders and 5 sub processes of research. All ethical research issues can be divided into 50 cells of the framework. In order to guarantee effective ethical decision making, a comprehensive integrative framework is necessary. The suggested framework in this paper can address, organize and integrate ethical issues. Also it provides direction for future collaborative research and has 4 other functionalities.