Guilt by association: How scientific misconduct harms prior collaborators
| Autor: | Maikel Pellens, Katrin Hussinger |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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PERCEPTIONS
INNOVATION IMPACT Strategy & innovation [B08] [Business & economic sciences] Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Stigma (botany) Social Sciences Management Science and Operations Research Criminology Stratégie & innovation [B08] [Sciences économiques & de gestion] PANEL Misconduct Business economics Management of Technology and Innovation Business & Economics 0502 economics and business 050207 economics Scientific misconduct Anecdotal evidence media_common ECONOMICS 05 social sciences STIGMA CITATIONS Prior collaborators CRIME Management FRAUD REPLICATION Science studies Psychology 050203 business & management Mechanism (sociology) Reputation |
| Zdroj: | Research Policy. Netherlands: Elsevier (2019). |
| Popis: | Recent highly publicized cases of scientific misconduct have raised concerns about its consequences for academic careers. Previous and anecdotal evidence suggests that these reach far beyond the fraudulent scientist and (his or) her career, affecting coauthors and institutions. Here we show that the negative effects of scientific misconduct spill over to uninvolved prior collaborators: compared to a control group, prior collaborators of misconducting scientists, who have no connection to the misconduct case, are cited 8–9% less often afterwards. We suggest that the mechanism underlying this phenomenon is stigmatization by mere association. The result suggests that scientific misconduct generates large indirect costs in the form of mistrust towards a wider range of research findings than was previously assumed. The far-reaching fallout of misconduct implies that potential whistleblowers might be disinclined to make their concerns public in order to protect their own reputation and career. ispartof: RESEARCH POLICY vol:48 issue:2 pages:516-530 status: published |
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