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Explaining variance in perceived research misbehavior: results from a survey among academic researchers in Amsterdam
BACKGROUND: Concerns about research misbehavior in academic science have sparked interest in the factors that may explain research misbehavior. Often three clusters of factors are distinguished: individual factors, climate factors and publication factors. Our research question was: to what extent ca...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8094603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33941288 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41073-021-00110-w |
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author | Haven, Tamarinde Tijdink, Joeri Martinson, Brian Bouter, Lex Oort, Frans |
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description | BACKGROUND: Concerns about research misbehavior in academic science have sparked interest in the factors that may explain research misbehavior. Often three clusters of factors are distinguished: individual factors, climate factors and publication factors. Our research question was: to what extent can individual, climate and publication factors explain the variance in frequently perceived research misbehaviors? METHODS: From May 2017 until July 2017, we conducted a survey study among academic researchers in Amsterdam. The survey included three measurement instruments that we previously reported individual results of and here we integrate these findings. RESULTS: One thousand two hundred ninety-eight researchers completed the survey (response rate: 17%). Results showed that individual, climate and publication factors combined explained 34% of variance in perceived frequency of research misbehavior. Individual factors explained 7%, climate factors explained 22% and publication factors 16%. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that the perceptions of the research climate play a substantial role in explaining variance in research misbehavior. This suggests that efforts to improve departmental norms might have a salutary effect on behavior. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s41073-021-00110-w. |
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spelling | pubmed-80946032021-05-05 Explaining variance in perceived research misbehavior: results from a survey among academic researchers in Amsterdam Haven, Tamarinde Tijdink, Joeri Martinson, Brian Bouter, Lex Oort, Frans Res Integr Peer Rev Research BACKGROUND: Concerns about research misbehavior in academic science have sparked interest in the factors that may explain research misbehavior. Often three clusters of factors are distinguished: individual factors, climate factors and publication factors. Our research question was: to what extent can individual, climate and publication factors explain the variance in frequently perceived research misbehaviors? METHODS: From May 2017 until July 2017, we conducted a survey study among academic researchers in Amsterdam. The survey included three measurement instruments that we previously reported individual results of and here we integrate these findings. RESULTS: One thousand two hundred ninety-eight researchers completed the survey (response rate: 17%). Results showed that individual, climate and publication factors combined explained 34% of variance in perceived frequency of research misbehavior. Individual factors explained 7%, climate factors explained 22% and publication factors 16%. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that the perceptions of the research climate play a substantial role in explaining variance in research misbehavior. This suggests that efforts to improve departmental norms might have a salutary effect on behavior. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s41073-021-00110-w. BioMed Central 2021-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8094603/ /pubmed/33941288 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41073-021-00110-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Haven, Tamarinde Tijdink, Joeri Martinson, Brian Bouter, Lex Oort, Frans Explaining variance in perceived research misbehavior: results from a survey among academic researchers in Amsterdam |
title | Explaining variance in perceived research misbehavior: results from a survey among academic researchers in Amsterdam |
title_full | Explaining variance in perceived research misbehavior: results from a survey among academic researchers in Amsterdam |
title_fullStr | Explaining variance in perceived research misbehavior: results from a survey among academic researchers in Amsterdam |
title_full_unstemmed | Explaining variance in perceived research misbehavior: results from a survey among academic researchers in Amsterdam |
title_short | Explaining variance in perceived research misbehavior: results from a survey among academic researchers in Amsterdam |
title_sort | explaining variance in perceived research misbehavior: results from a survey among academic researchers in amsterdam |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8094603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33941288 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41073-021-00110-w |
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