Disentangling the local context—imagined communities and researchers’ sense of belonging

Serge Pascal Johannes M Horbach*, Mads P. Sørensen, Nick Allum, Abigail-Kate Reid

*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

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Abstract

It is generally agreed that researchers’ ‘local context’ matters to the successful implementation of research integrity policies. However, it often remains unclear what the relevant local context is. Is it the institutions and immediate working surroundings of researchers? Or, do we need to pay more attention to researchers’ epistemic communities if we want to understand their ‘local context’? In this paper, we examine this question by using the International Research Integrity Survey with more than 60,000 respondents. Survey responses indicate that academics identify with both their geographical local units (‘polis’) and their more transnational epistemic or scholarly communities (‘cosmos’). Identification with scholarly communities tends to be strongest. We embed the survey results in the academic literature by proposing a theoretical understanding of academics’ ‘local context’ based on Beck’s notion of cosmopolitanism and Durkheim’s concept of solidarity. We conclude with considerations on how to successfully implement research integrity policies.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummerscad017
TidsskriftScience and Public Policy
Vol/bind50
Nummer4
Sider (fra-til)695-706
Antal sider12
ISSN0302-3427
DOI
StatusUdgivet - aug. 2023

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