A CASE STUDY ON ETHICAL ISSUES AND THEIR REASONS IN MULTI-AUTHOR SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Damla Güler; Yasin Altın; Ebru Elif Durmaz; Semiyha Tuncel

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A CASE STUDY ON ETHICAL ISSUES AND THEIR REASONS IN MULTI-AUTHOR SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Authors:

Damla Güler | Yasin Altın | Ebru Elif Durmaz | Semiyha Tuncel

Publisher:

Ankara University

Main Topics:

Beden Eğitimi ve Oyun | Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Pedagojisi

Journal:

SPORMETRE Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Bilimleri Dergisi Vol.21 Issue 4, pp.129-144

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2023

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2001306721

pISSN:

1304-284X

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Abstract:

 This research is a case study that aims to identify ethical issues in multi-authored scientific publications and to reveal the causes of these issues. In 2022, 9 academicians 3 female, 6 male working at the Faculty of Sport Sciences at different universities, who had previously participated in multi-authored scientific studies, participated in the research. The ages of the participants range from 30 to 40. In the research, individual in-depth semi-structured interviews were used as data collection tool. Content analysis was conducted for the data obtained from the interviews. As a result of the research, unethical behaviors experienced in multi-author publications were grouped under the theme of creating an author list and under the category of author ranking. The theme of creating the author list includes the categories of gift authorship, honorary authorship, shadow authorship, print authorship and sequential authorship. These categories represent ethical violations while creating the author list. The reasons for ethical issues are expressed in the codes that emerged under the categories of economic, appointment and promotion and other. The participants were asked what kind of measures could be taken to prevent these ethical issues and 5 main suggestions emerged. The main suggestions are to give importance to quality rather than quantity in matters such as appointment and promotion and academic incentives and to make legal arrangements for this, to take role models of people who display ethically appropriate behaviors in the academy, to increase education in terms of ethics and to plan for the distribution of tasks in the planning phase of the research.

 This research is a case study that aims to identify ethical issues in multi-authored scientific publications and to reveal the causes of these issues. In 2022, 9 academicians 3 female, 6 male working at the Faculty of Sport Sciences at different universities, who had previously participated in multi-authored scientific studies, participated in the research. The ages of the participants range from 30 to 40. In the research, individual in-depth semi-structured interviews were used as data collection tool. Content analysis was conducted for the data obtained from the interviews. As a result of the research, unethical behaviors experienced in multi-author publications were grouped under the theme of creating an author list and under the category of author ranking. The theme of creating the author list includes the categories of gift authorship, honorary authorship, shadow authorship, print authorship and sequential authorship. These categories represent ethical violations while creating the author list. The reasons for ethical issues are expressed in the codes that emerged under the categories of economic, appointment and promotion and other. The participants were asked what kind of measures could be taken to prevent these ethical issues and 5 main suggestions emerged. The main suggestions are to give importance to quality rather than quantity in matters such as appointment and promotion and academic incentives and to make legal arrangements for this, to take role models of people who display ethically appropriate behaviors in the academy, to increase education in terms of ethics and to plan for the distribution of tasks in the planning phase of the research.

 This research is a case study that aims to identify ethical issues in multi-authored scientific publications and to reveal the causes of these issues. In 2022, 9 academicians 3 female, 6 male working at the Faculty of Sport Sciences at different universities, who had previously participated in multi-authored scientific studies, participated in the research. The ages of the participants range from 30 to 40. In the research, individual in-depth semi-structured interviews were used as data collection tool. Content analysis was conducted for the data obtained from the interviews. As a result of the research, unethical behaviors experienced in multi-author publications were grouped under the theme of creating an author list and under the category of author ranking. The theme of creating the author list includes the categories of gift authorship, honorary authorship, shadow authorship, print authorship and sequential authorship. These categories represent ethical violations while creating the author list. The reasons for ethical issues are expressed in the codes that emerged under the categories of economic, appointment and promotion and other. The participants were asked what kind of measures could be taken to prevent these ethical issues and 5 main suggestions emerged. The main suggestions are to give importance to quality rather than quantity in matters such as appointment and promotion and academic incentives and to make legal arrangements for this, to take role models of people who display ethically appropriate behaviors in the academy, to increase education in terms of ethics and to plan for the distribution of tasks in the planning phase of the research.

 Bu araştırma, çok yazarlı bilimsel yayınlarda yaşanan etik ihlalleri belirlemeyi ve bu ihlallerin nedenlerini ortaya koymayı amaçlayan bir durum çalışmasıdır. Araştırmaya 2022 yılında farklı üniversitelerde Spor Bilimleri Fakültesinde çalışan daha önce çok yazarlı bilimsel çalışmalarda yer almış, 9 akademisyen 3 kadın, 6 erkek katılmıştır. Katılımcıların yaşları 30 ile 40 arasında değişmektedir. Arastırmada veri toplama aracı olarak bireysel derinlemesine yarı yapılandırılmıs gorusme formu kullanılmıştır. Gorusmelerden elde edilen veriler icerik analizi tekniği ile analiz edilmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda çok yazarlı yayınlarda yaşanan etik dışı davranışlar yazar listesi oluşturma teması ve yazar sıralaması kategorisi altında toplanmıştır. Yazar listesi oluşturma temasında armağan yazarlık, onursal yazarlık, gölge yazarlık, baskıyla yazarlık ve sıralı yazarlık kategorileri yer almaktadır. Bu kategoriler yazar listesi oluştururken yaşanan etik ihlalleri temsil etmektedir. Etik ihlallerin nedenleri ise ekonomik, atama ve yükselme ve diğer kategorileri altında ortaya çıkan kodlarla ifade edilmiştir. Bu ihlaller ekonomik kaygılar nedeniyle ortaya çıkabilmektedir. Akademik teşvik alabilmek ve yayın maliyetini düşürmek bu kaygının temel sebepleridir. Katılımcılara bu etik ihlallerin önüne geçebilmek için ne tür önlemlerin alınabileceği sorusu yöneltilmiştir ve başlıca 5 öneri ortaya çıkmıştır. Atama ve yükselme ve akademik teşvik gibi konularda nicelikten ziyade niteliğe önem vermek ve buna yönelik yasal düzenlemelerin yapılması, akademide etik açıdan uygun davranışlar sergileyen kişilerin rol model alınması, etik açıdan eğitimlerin artırılması ve araştırmanın planlama aşamasında görev dağılımına yönelik planlamanın yapılması başlıca öneriler olarak ifade edilmiştir.

Article Details

A CASE STUDY ON ETHICAL ISSUES AND THEIR REASONS IN MULTI-AUTHOR SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Authors:

Damla Güler | Yasin Altın | Ebru Elif Durmaz | Semiyha Tuncel

Publisher:

Ankara University

Main Topics:

Beden Eğitimi ve Oyun | Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Pedagojisi

Journal:

SPORMETRE Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Bilimleri Dergisi Vol.21 Issue 4, pp.129-144

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2023

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2001306721

pISSN:

1304-284X

Ethical issues

Sport sciences

Multi-Author Scientific PublicationsEtik sorunlar

spor bilimleri

çok yazarlı bilimsel çalışmalar

Issues

Article Details

A CASE STUDY ON ETHICAL ISSUES AND THEIR REASONS IN MULTI-AUTHOR SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Authors: Damla Güler | Yasin Altın | Ebru Elif Durmaz | Semiyha Tuncel

Publisher: Ankara University

Main Topics: Beden Eğitimi ve Oyun | Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Pedagojisi

Journal: SPORMETRE Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Bilimleri Dergisi Vol.21 Issue 4, pp.129-144

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 12/2023

Document Language: Turkish

Document ID (Org No.): 2001306721

pISSN: 1304-284X

Ethical issues

Sport sciences

Multi-Author Scientific PublicationsEtik sorunlar

spor bilimleri

çok yazarlı bilimsel çalışmalar

Issues

Authors:

Damla Güler | Yasin Altın | Ebru Elif Durmaz | Semiyha Tuncel

Publisher:

Ankara University

Main Topics:

Beden Eğitimi ve Oyun | Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Pedagojisi

Journal:

SPORMETRE Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Bilimleri Dergisi Vol.21 Issue 4, pp.129-144

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2023

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2001306721

pISSN:

1304-284X