From Sociopathy to the Academic Fraud Pandemic: New Insights upon the Human Factor

Résumé

This reflection revisits an earlier text on the relationship between new generations of researchers and academic fraud, developing it in a broader direction but at the same level of analysis: the human factor, as defined by the psychological and sociological contexts of academic fraud, is the first and most important explanation (but not the only one) for dishonest behaviour in science and academia.