Jacob, M-A (2019) Under repair: a publication ethics and research record in the making. Social Studies of Science, 49 (1). pp. 77-101. ISSN 0306-3127
Abstract
Based on fieldwork in the Committee on Publication Ethics, this paper offers an analysis of the forms of doings that publication ethics in action can take during what is called the ‘Forum’, a space where allegations of dubious research conduct get aired and debated between editors and publishers. This article examines recurring motifs within the review of publication practices whose ethics are called into. These motifs include: the shaping of publication ethics as an expertise that can be standardized across locations and disciplines, the separation of the research record from relations that produce it, and the divisibility of the scientific paper. Together these institute an ethics of repair at the centre of the curative enterprise of the Committee on Publication Ethics. Under the language of correcting the literature the members are working out, along with authors, what the research record should be and, inevitably, what it is. In turn, this article elicits new analytical objects that re-describe publication ethics as a form of expertise, beyond (and despite) the rehearsed axioms of this now well-established professional field.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2019. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Social Studies of Science. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | ethics, publication, repair, research integrity, research misconduct, scholarly communication |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2019 12:25 |
Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2019 16:30 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0306312718824663 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:141728 |