Latest from our journals Opinion Share Post What is research integrity ? Matt Hodgkinson, Head of Editorial Policy and Ethics at Hindawi, articulates four pillars honesty, transparency, competence, and credit that capture what research integrity means to him. What is research integrity? This should be an easy question for me after the best part of two decades working in science publishing and the last half a decade dedicated to publication ethics. But as with another umbrella term, “open science”, the area of “research integrity” has many facets. As a panelist on Hindawi’s recent webinar organized with Research Square and the Copyright Clearance Center, this was the first question we faced and it gave me pause while I tried to sum up the essence.