[ATHENA] Appel à contributions : "Explaining research misconduct: data, hypotheses, and methodological issues" (Nancy, Déc. 2023, France)

[Pierre Edouard Bour <Pierre-Edouard.Bour AT univ-lorraine.fr>]

Chères et chers collègues,

Veuillez trouver ci-dessous l'appel à contributions pour la conférence "Explaining research misconduct: data, hypotheses, and methodological issues", qui se tiendra à Nancy en décembre 2023 et que nous organisons dans le cadre du projet de recherche CRISP.

Les soumissions de toutes les disciplines pertinentes au sein des sciences humaines et sociales, des sciences de la nature et des sciences formelles sont les bienvenues.

N'hésitez pas à diffuser ce message dans les communautés pertinentes.

En vous remerciant de votre attention,

Aurélien Allard (Sorbonne Université, Paris), Cyrille Imbert (Archives Poincaré, Nancy)

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Conference title: "Explaining research misconduct: data, hypotheses, and methodological issues"

Interdisciplinary conference.

 

Date: 6-8 December 2023

Place: Nancy, France

Keynote speakers:

- Hanne Andersen, history and philosophy of science (University of Copenhagen)

- Marjan Bakker, psychology (Methods and Statistics department, Tilburg University)

- Remco Heesen, philosophy of science, formal philosophy (London School of Economics)

- Philippe Mongeon, bibliometry (Dalhousie University)

- Amalya Oliver, sociology (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

 

The purpose of this interdisciplinary conference is to discuss analyses of research integrity violations across scientific fields. It is open to the different approaches from scholarly fields that analyze science, such as the philosophy, epistemology, sociology, psychology, or economics of science, and to all kinds of scientific methods, be they conceptual, empirical, qualitative, or formal.

 

Talks by selected contributors are expected to be given a 30-40 minute slot (presentation + discussion).

Website: https://explain-misconduct.sciencesconf.org/

The conference is organized within the framework of the CRISP research project, which is funded by the ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Projet-ANR-20-CE27-0016).

How to submit

Submissions of abstracts are open from April 5 to June 5, 2023.

Please submit both a long (up to 500 words) abstract and a short 100-word abstract in the "Submit an Abstract" section of this site.

We welcome submissions from any relevant discipline across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, or formal sciences.

Call for abstract

 

Questions related to research integrity and the quality of research outputs are paramount in contemporary debates about science. However, academic investigations about these issues suffer from a global problem.

 

While the existing literature has identified possible causes of research misconduct, such as pressure to publish or misaligned incentives, there is still a lack of reliable empirical evidence on the relative importance of the identified mechanisms. This lack of credible evidence stems from different reasons. First, while some individual cases are now well-documented, conceptual categories are often recent and derive from texts aimed at developing scientific policies. Second, current empirical studies often focus on particular fields like psychology or the biomedical sciences, and we still lack a global overview of research misconduct across different scientific fields. Third, data are usually rooted in surveys that researchers answer voluntarily by reporting on their own practices, or based on quantitative reviews of retractions. This focus on visible cases probably leaves untouched the vast majority of undisclosed or undetected violations of research integrity.

 

Overall, it is difficult and costly to get robust and unequivocal data about research integrity problems, and the significance of existing data often remains unclear. In brief, there remains a global discrepancy between the scarcity and reliability of empirical information about scientific misconduct and the wealth of potential factors that may encourage, if not generate this phenomenon. Such uncertainties about the prevalence and causes of research integrity violations are all the more preoccupying as novel academic regulations against such violations keep developing at a brisk pace and may have counter-productive effects if they are based on ill-justified views about the causes of departures from good research practices. 

 

In this context, the purpose of this interdisciplinary conference is to discuss analyses of research integrity violations across scientific fields and the methodological problems related to them. It is open to the different approaches from scholarly fields that analyze science, such as the philosophy, epistemology, sociology, psychology, or economics of science, and to all kinds of scientific methods, be they conceptual, empirical, qualitative, or formal.

 

                Contributions
                    addressing methodological questions related to the
                    causal investigation of integrity violations are
                    specifically welcome.

 

Research questions involve, but are not limited to: 

                  -
                    Discussions on the causal analysis of scientific
                    misconduct
                  -
                    Analysis of the individual and collective factors
                    that favor integrity violations
                  -
                      Classifications of scientific deviance and their
                      suitability for causal claims
                  -
                      Differences (if any) between the explanation of RI
                      violations, QRP, and scientific misconduct
                  -
                      Biases in research
                  -
                    Issues related to the reproducibility crisis
                  -
                    Discussions on sample size, statistical power, and
                    related norms
                  -
                    Methodological discussions about norms of good
                    practices across sciences
                  - Explanations
                      of RI violations and misconducts as reported by the
                    media and the political world
                  -
                    Similarities and differences between scientific
                    fields on all the above issues
                  -
                    Differences between private and public science, and
                    regulatory science on all the above issues
                   
                  Scientific
                        committee:
                   
                  
                    -
                      Cyrille
                        Imbert (CNRS, Lorraine University), main
                      organizer

- Aurélien Allard (Sorbonne University), main organizer

- Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne University)

- Olivier Leclerc (CNRS, Nanterre University)

- Jérôme Michalon (CNRS, ENS Lyon)

- Stéphanie Ruphy (ENS Paris)

Contact. See the conference's site.