On the Willingness to Report and the Consequences of Reporting Research Misconduct: The Role of Power Relations.

ABSTRACT: While attention to research integrity has been growing over the past decades, the processes of signalling and denouncing cases of research misconduct remain largely unstudied. In this article, we develop a theoretically and empirically informed understanding of the causes and consequences of reporting research misconduct in terms of power relations. We study the reporting process based on a multinational survey at eight European universities (N = 1126). Using qualitative data that witnesses of research misconduct or of questionable research practices provided, we aim to examine actors' rationales for reporting and not reporting misconduct, how they report it and the perceived consequences of reporting. In particular we study how research seniority, the temporality of work appointments, and

SUBMITTER: Horbach SPJM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7286863 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature