About the project

Research Misconduct in non-Western Contexts is a research project, which was initiated by a group of scholars from Canada, Kazakhstan, and Switzerland to address the problem of increasing incidence of research misconduct across the globe. 

This problem has many manifestations, including, but not limited to plagiarism, predatory publication, ghost authorship, data manipulation, exploitation of junior scholars, and etc. 

Curbing research misconduct and ensuring ethical compliance in research is vital for the development of global science, for ensuring that research does not produce unnecessary risks for human society and environment, and for equitable distribution of research benefits.

The main purpose of the project is to fill the gap in the existing knowledge about the incidence and drivers of research misconduct in the less investigated countries of the "Global South", where research misconduct is a growing concern.

The project intends to contribute to global scholarship on research ethics and research misconduct by enhancing the existing theories on factors of research misconduct, producing empirical evidence from previously unstudied contexts, and developing recommendations for higher education administrators, publishers, scholarly societies, and policymakers across the globe, which would help to address the problem of growing research misconduct.

The project has been jointly funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Partnership Development Grant), the University of Calgary (Canada), the University of St.Gallen (Switzerland), and SDU University (Kazakhstan).