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Historicizing the crisis of scientific misconduct in Indian science
A flurry of discussions about plagiarism and predatory publications in recent times has brought the issue of scientific misconduct in India to the fore. The debate has framed scientific misconduct in India as a recent phenomenon. This article questions that framing, which rests on the current tenden...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7885089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32567389 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0073275320930908 |
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description | A flurry of discussions about plagiarism and predatory publications in recent times has brought the issue of scientific misconduct in India to the fore. The debate has framed scientific misconduct in India as a recent phenomenon. This article questions that framing, which rests on the current tendency to define and police scientific misconduct as a matter of individual behavior. Without ignoring the role of individuals, this article contextualizes their actions by calling attention to the conduct of the institutions, as well as social and political structures that are historically responsible for governing the practice of science in India since the colonial period. Scientific (mis)conduct, in other words, is here examined as a historical phenomenon borne of the interaction between individuals’ aspirations and the systems that impose, measure, and reward scientific output in particular ways. Importantly, historicizing scientific misconduct in this way also underscores scientist-driven initiatives and regulatory interventions that have placed India at the leading edge of reform. With the formal establishment of the Society for Scientific Values in 1986, Indian scientists became the first national community worldwide to monitor research integrity in an institutionally organized way. |
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spelling | pubmed-78850892021-03-10 Historicizing the crisis of scientific misconduct in Indian science Shahare, Mahendra Roberts, Lissa L. Hist Sci Articles A flurry of discussions about plagiarism and predatory publications in recent times has brought the issue of scientific misconduct in India to the fore. The debate has framed scientific misconduct in India as a recent phenomenon. This article questions that framing, which rests on the current tendency to define and police scientific misconduct as a matter of individual behavior. Without ignoring the role of individuals, this article contextualizes their actions by calling attention to the conduct of the institutions, as well as social and political structures that are historically responsible for governing the practice of science in India since the colonial period. Scientific (mis)conduct, in other words, is here examined as a historical phenomenon borne of the interaction between individuals’ aspirations and the systems that impose, measure, and reward scientific output in particular ways. Importantly, historicizing scientific misconduct in this way also underscores scientist-driven initiatives and regulatory interventions that have placed India at the leading edge of reform. With the formal establishment of the Society for Scientific Values in 1986, Indian scientists became the first national community worldwide to monitor research integrity in an institutionally organized way. SAGE Publications 2020-06-20 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7885089/ /pubmed/32567389 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0073275320930908 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
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title | Historicizing the crisis of scientific misconduct in Indian science |
title_full | Historicizing the crisis of scientific misconduct in Indian science |
title_fullStr | Historicizing the crisis of scientific misconduct in Indian science |
title_full_unstemmed | Historicizing the crisis of scientific misconduct in Indian science |
title_short | Historicizing the crisis of scientific misconduct in Indian science |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7885089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32567389 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0073275320930908 |
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