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Autor/in | Horstkotte, Hermann |
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Titel | Promotion unter Verdacht. Wissenschaftliche Plagiate sind ein Reizthema in Deutschland. |
Quelle | In: Letter / Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, 31 (2011) 2, S. 18-19 |
Sprache | deutsch; englische Zusammenfassung |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
Schlagwörter | Deutschland |
Abstract | Mitte Februar 2011 wurde der erste Verdacht gegen den damaligen Bundesverteidigungsminister laut: Er hat seine 2009 veröffentlichte Doktorarbeit teilweise von anderen Autoren abgeschrieben. Vor allem junge Wissenschaftler sind empört. (HoF/Text übernommen). Germany's defence minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg was forced to give up his doctoral title and resigned from hist post after it was discovered that large portions of his PhD were plagiarized. The federal government initially trivialized the case. Young academics were particularly outraged by this. Using electronic search engines, they scoured the dissertation, identified the plagiarized passages and published the results on the internet. This demonstrates that while the Internet is part of the Problem, it can also bea an effective tool to commat it. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG - German Research Foundation) established a complaints committee as early as 1998, called "Ombudsman Research". Committees in charge of monitoring good scientific practices are now in place at many German universities. Such measures for self-regulation in science have paid off. DFG President Matthias Kleiner points out that, "All in all, scientific misconduct is quite rare in Germany."(HoF/text adopted). |
Erfasst von | Institut für Hochschulforschung (HoF) an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg |
Update | 2012/1 |