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Attempting to Assure Accuracy

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A professor is requested by a journal he is unfamiliar with to review a book on prostitution and crime. He studies the contents of the journal, agrees with its approach, and submits the review. When it is published, he finds that ...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case31

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 15:13

Discovery of Error in One's Own Work

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A sociologist who has just submitted a paper for publication in an edited collection, and only afterwards encounters the work of another sociologist who provides evidence that may refute some facts presented in her paper. What shou...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case61

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 15:53

Proper Credit

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Nancy Singh, a professor at a prestigious university, finally gets the manuscript to a book based on a conference she has been working on accepted by a publisher. Over the few years she has been working on this, her co-editor has no...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case69

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:03

Rights to Authorship

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When a graduate student and a project director work jointly on resolving a question about an ambiguous code, a dispute arises as to if the graduate student should be a co-author, or if he he should only be acknowledged in a footnote...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case70

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:05

Citing Work Known through the Review Process

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: After reviewing a manuscript for publication that is very similar to research she is doing in the United States, Beth Rosen decides after she has completed the review that she would like to have a conversation with the author of the...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case86

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:25

Introducing Students to the Review Process

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: To introduce a graduate student to the review process used for publication in sociology, a student's advisor asks her to look through a number of past reviews of articles he has done, and also to do a co-review with him on a manuscr...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case87

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:27

Teaching, Research and Data Collection

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A professor assigns his students a research assignment each year, and uses the data collected through these projects as the basis for sole authored papers for presentation at national meetings, and for subsequent publication. What e...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case96

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:37

The "Small Circles" Problem

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An editor of a journal has received a paper that deals with an extremely specialized area of sociology. She knows a number of researchers working in that area, but is concerned with the small pool of potential reviewers. Because ev...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case78

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:14

The Role of Editors in Dual Publication

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A professor coming up for tenure is invited to contribute to an edited volume on juvenile delinquency, and after reading the submission the editor of the book realizes that this manuscript is almost exactly the same as a previously ...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case77

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:13

Dual Submissions

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A reviewer receives a paper from a general journal to review, and two days later receives essentially the same paper from a specialty journal to review. She lets both editors of each journal know about this duplication. What should...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case76

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:12

Multiple Submission

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A assistant professor coming up for tenure is told that she really needs one more article accepted into a refereed journal to have a chance. She has one article being reviewed, but despite the editor's assurances, two months pass a...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case73

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:08

Acknowledging the Insights of Reviewers

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An author of a paper to a leading peer-reviewed journal in sociology has his piece reviewed and is asked to revise and resubmit it. The reviewers include a number of pages of commentary and suggestions. In his revision, he draws h...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case85

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:24

Reporting Full Findings

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A junior research professor up for Fourth Year Tenure Review reflect on how publishing two articles about her multi-year research project would strengthen her chance to receive tenure. However, publishing two article based on this ...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case74

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:10

Acknowledging Credit in Professional Work

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An associate professor of sociology assists a biologist in writing a 2.5 million grant proposal. When the proposal is funded, however, the biologist who is the principal investigator on the project does not fulfill his promise of ma...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case72

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:07

Selection of Reviewers -- Competing approaches in a field

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Vern Baron, an editor, receives a paper in a sub-field that is divided into competing approaches. Followers of a given approach rarely cite work using the other and vice versa, and if they do, it is to dispute its validity. Should t...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case80

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:18

Citation of Sources and Use of Materials in Teaching

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A professor of sociology draws his lectures from textbooks not assigned for his students to read. Should he cite these sources? Includes expert commentary....
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case95

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:36

Establishing Mutually Acceptable Agreements

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A graduate student completing her Ph.D in sociology has completed her dissertation which applies some of her advisor's theoretical developments and collects other primary data to further test and refine a number of his formulations....
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case71

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:06

Appropriateness of a Paper for Publication in a Journal

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The editor of a sociological journal receives a paper that is obviously inappropriate for the journal she publishes, and she rejects it without sending it to be reviewed. Was the author justified in doing this? Includes expert comm...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case81

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:19

Reviewing the Work of Students

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The editor of a peer-reviewed sociology journal sends a manuscript to be reviewed to a well-known sociologist. He receives a note that the reviewer is the mentor of the student and oversaw the dissertation on which the manuscript is...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case84

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:23

Unauthorized Use of an Advisor

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When a professor is asked to review a paper for publication and realizes she knows very little about the statistical method used in the paper, she asks a graduate student who was familiar with the paper for her evaluation. The prof...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case88

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:28

Dual Submission -- Expansion of Ideas

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An author submits a substantive paper to a general journal, and at the same time submits a somewhat expanded version of its methods section to a methodology journal without notifying the authors. An expert on the topic, asked to re...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case75

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:11

Research Misconduct Policies of Social Science Journals and Impact Factor

Authors: Patrone, Daniel ; Peddada, Shyamal ; Resnik, David B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: In this study, the authors gathered data on the misconduct policies of social science journals and combined it with the data from a previous study on journal misconduct policies. Consistent with our earlier finding, impact factor of...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1080/08989621003641181

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-20 16:36

Adventures in Collaborative Science: A Case Study for Performance and Discussion

Authors: Pimple, Kenneth D.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Chris and Pat, two graduate students working on a interdisciplinary team who are studying race relations in a small rural town think that their advisor has made up quotations for an interviewee and published them in a paper....
Year: 1999
URL: http://mypage.iu.edu/~pimple/adventures.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-12 13:08

Prolonged Period of Getting a Submission Reviewed

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An editor of a journal has an extremely difficult time getting reviewers for a paper, and the reviewers she does get take a long time in reviewing the paper. After nine months, the author complains that a tenure decision is forthcom...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case83

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:22

Appropriateness of Reviewing an Obviously Poor Paper

Authors: American Sociological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An editor of a journal receives a submission that is clearly below the standards of the journal. What is the editor's responsibility to the paper's author? To reviewers? Includes expert commentary....
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.asanet.org/ethics/detail.cfm?id=Case82

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-19 16:20