Research misconduct in the fields of ethics and philosophy: researchers’ perceptions in Spain Feenstra, Ramon A Delgado López-Cózar, Emilio Domínguez-Pallarés, Daniel Research misconduct ethics philosophy evaluation policy Research policy Research evaluation Scientific fraud self-plagiarism plagiarism citation manipulation This is the Author’s Original Manuscript (AOM) (also called a “preprint”) sent to review to Science and Engineering Ethics on 11/10/2020. The final version of the article was published online at SEE on 21/01/2021. The online version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-021-00278-w Empirical studies have revealed a disturbing prevalence of research misconduct in a wide variety of disciplines, although not, to date, in the areas of ethics and philosophy. This study aims to provide empirical evidence on perceptions of how serious a problem research misconduct is in these two disciplines in Spain, particularly regarding the effects that the model used to evaluate academics’ research performance may have on their ethical behaviour. The methodological triangulation applied in the study combines a questionnaire, a debate at the annual meeting of scientific association, and in-depth interviews. Of the 541 questionnaires sent out, 201 responses were obtained (37.1% of the total sample), with a significant difference in the participation of researchers in philosophy (30.5%) and in ethics (52.8%); 26 researchers took part in the debate and 14 interviews were conducted. The questionnaire results reveal that 91.5% of the respondents considered research misconduct to be on the rise; 63.2% considered at least three of the fraudulent practices referred to in the study to be commonplace, and 84.1% identified two or more such practices. The researchers perceived a high prevalence of duplicate publication (66.5%) and self-plagiarism (59.0%), use of personal influence (57.5%) and citation manipulation (44.0%), in contrast to a low perceived incidence of data falsification or fabrication (10.0%). The debate and the interviews corroborated these data. Researchers associated the spread of these misconducts with the research evaluation model applied in Spain. 2021-02-04T07:27:39Z 2021-02-04T07:27:39Z 2020-10-11 info:eu-repo/semantics/preprint Feenstra, R.A., Delgado López-Cózar, E. & Pallarés-Domínguez, D. (2020) Research Misconduct in the Fields of Ethics and Philosophy: Researchers’ Perceptions in Spain http://hdl.handle.net/10481/66271 10.1007/s11948-021-00278-w eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España