Collection
Research Ethics in Emerging Economies and Developing Countries
Much has been written in the US and the EU about the impacts of systematic expectations and pressures on the production of scientific knowledge and more specifically, increasing scientific output as publications. Some of the scholarship in research ethics has emerged against the backdrop of malpractice, research misconduct and other problematic responses to such pressure. Much less is known, however, about how these pressures and their consequences are manifest in emerging economies and developing nations. While universities are playing an increasingly important role in these countries, performance indicators such as an expected number of publications per year in respected venues (i.e. those with high impact factors) are being increasingly used to assess the performance of individual researchers for important promotion decisions, such as tenure track or tenured. Little is known about the impact of such heightened performance standards to the levels currently known in the North-American, European and other universities high on the world ranking lists. With this Topical Collection, we invite submissions from researchers in these countries which explore how systematic national, institutional or other pressures are being exercised and the impact of such pressures on research practice.
Editors
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Dena Plemmons
Dena Plemmons is an anthropologist by training, but in the last decade has focused her research agenda in the area of research integrity. She has taught research ethics from undergraduates to physicians and faculty, and across disciplines. She has consistently been funded, as PI and co-PI through both NIH and NSF, for her research, which includes curriculum development in research ethics, and investigations into both common and best practices in areas of science and research, both nationally and internationally.
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Behman Taebi
Behnam Taebi is Professor of Energy & Climate Ethics and Scientific Director of the Safety & Security Institute at Delft University of Technology. Taebi studied Material Science and Engineering (2006) and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Technology (2010). He was further affiliated with Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University (2014-2020).
