The growing, high-stakes audit culture within the academy has brought about a different kind of publishing crisis

Spooner, Marc (2018) The growing, high-stakes audit culture within the academy has brought about a different kind of publishing crisis. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (05 Nov 2018). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

The spate of high-profile cases of fraudulent publications has revealed a widening replication, or outright deception, crisis in the social sciences. To Marc Spooner, researchers “cooking up” findings and the deliberate faking of science is a result of extreme pressures to publish, brought about by an increasingly pervasive audit culture within the academy.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	10 Jun 2021 11:57
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 11:07
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/110817

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