Research on Data Fraud and Resource Waste Governance from the Perspective of Global Research Integrity Governance — Institutional Design Based on Automated Encrypted Evidence Storage and Timestamp Technology

Research on Data Fraud and Resource Waste Governance from the Perspective of

Global Research Integrity Governance — Institutional Design Based on Automated

Encrypted Evidence Storage and Timestamp Technology

Abstract

Against the backdrop of global research governance transformation, research

integrity has become a core consensus of the international innovation community. Data fraud, result padding, and ineficient allocation of public research funds have

evolved into systemic problems impeding scientific progress, particularly in

experiment-intensive fields such as biomedicine, physics, chemistry, and life sciences. Two global trends are increasingly clear: the de-quantification of research evaluation

and the full-lifecycle traceability of original data. China has maintained high R&D investment, but the traditional model of manual

archiving, ex-post audit, and paper-based evaluation creates structural vulnerabilities:

data can be altered, records can be backdated, inspections rely on self-reporting, and

supervision is reactive. These flaws lead to substantial explicit waste including funds

and equipment, as well as implicit losses such as distorted research directions, weakened innovation capacity and eroded academic credibility. This paper adopts a global research integrity governance perspective, systematically

reviewing policies, technical standards, and legal practices in the European Union, the

United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and other advanced research regions. Grounded in process control theory, research governance theory, new public

management theory, and full-lifecycle scientific data theory, it constructs a

comprehensive analytical framework covering problem identification, cause analysis,

international experience, system design and implementation strategy. We propose a governance system based on project-specific automated management

software that enables real-time data capture, end-to-end encryption, tamper-proof

timestamping, and hierarchical access control. The core institutional innovation is the

rigid binding of data evidence compliance with project approval, staged funding

disbursement, interim review, final acceptance, and research credit, forming a

closed-loop governance model integrating technical hard constraints and institutional

supervision. The proposed design fundamentally mitigates data fabrication, tampering, selective

archiving, and retrospective record-keeping. It formally recognizes the public

academic value of failed and anomalous data, reduces redundant research, and alignswith international norms including the FAIR Data Principles, DORA Declaration, and

CoARA agreements. Addressing implementation barriers such as habit resistance,

interest conflicts, hardware adaptation, and data security concerns, we develop a

three-phase roadmap: pilot adoption, nationwide rollout and legal institutionalization

with reference to international transitional practices. This study provides a practicable, technically grounded, and internationally aligned

governance solution for Chinas research system. It can efectively curb academic

misconduct, improve the eficiency of public research funds, and enhance global

research credibility, while offering a Chinese-origin model for global research integrity

and scientific data governance. Keywords

Global Research Integrity; Data Fraud; Research Resource Waste; Automated

Encrypted Storage; Tamper-Proof Timestamp; Research Evaluation Reform; Research

Governance; Full-Lifecycle Data Management