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2021-06-01Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.18452/25152
Cycles of invisibility: The limits of transparency in dealing with scientific misconduct
dc.contributor.authorHesselmann, Felicitas
dc.contributor.authorReinhart, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-17T08:55:27Z
dc.date.available2022-08-17T08:55:27Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-01none
dc.date.updated2021-05-20T22:27:09Z
dc.identifier.issn0306-3127
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/25844
dc.descriptionThis publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.none
dc.description.abstractSanctions for plagiarism, falsification and fabrication in research are primarily symbolic. This paper investigates sanctions for scientific misconduct and their preceding investigation processes as visible and legitimate symbols. Using three different data sources (retraction notices, expert interviews, and a survey of scientists), we show that sanctions for scientific misconduct operate within a cycle of visibility, in which sanctions are highly visible, while investigation and decision-making procedures remain mostly invisible. This corresponds to high levels of acceptance of sanctions in the scientific community, but a low acceptance of the respective authorities. Such a punitiveness in turn exacerbates confidentiality concerns, so that authorities become even more secretive. We argue that punitiveness towards scientific misconduct is driven by such a cycle of invisibility.eng
dc.description.sponsorshipBundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectscientific misconducteng
dc.subjectvisibilityeng
dc.subjectsanctionseng
dc.subjectpunitivenesseng
dc.subjecttransparencyeng
dc.subject.ddc300 Sozialwissenschaftennone
dc.titleCycles of invisibility: The limits of transparency in dealing with scientific misconductnone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/25844-9
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18452/25152
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.pages25none
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone
dc.identifier.eissn1460-3659
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1177/0306312720975201none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleSocial Studies of Sciencenone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume51none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue3none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameSAGE Publicationsnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceLondon, Englandnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart414none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend438none
bua.departmentKultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultätnone

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