980003 TS Good Scientific Practice (2011S)

Over the past decades we witnessed a growing debate over issues of misconduct in contemporary research the peak of the iceberg being major fraud cases. Universities and other research institutions have put in place explicit codes of conduct, have installed electronic screening programmes to detect plagiarism and many more. At the same time surveys among the research community have shown that the majority of researchers would admit off-record that they do have arranged data, left out inconvenient results, copied some ´smaller less important´ parts and many other practices of that kind. Yet unfortunately, these problems have often been addressed by introducing formal rules and by isolating the person that `misbehaved´ and by stressing a ´personal(ity) problem´.