Correcting the Scholarly Record for Research Integrity

M. V. Dougherty is the Sr. Ruth Caspar Chair in Philosophy at Ohio Dominican University (USA). He is author of Moral Dilemmas in Medieval Thought: From Gratian to Aquinas (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and has edited Aquinas’s ‘Disputed Questions on Evil’: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Pico della Mirandola: New Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He has authored and co-authored articles on academic plagiarism, and his research interests include the history of ethics and research ethics. Since 2009, he has been involved in securing dozens of retractions, errata, and corrigenda for published articles in the discipline of philosophy and in related fields. His work in generating corrections for academic plagiarism and other authorship violations has been featured on Retraction Watch and on other academic news outlets.

• Preface.- Introduction.- 1. Defining the Scholarly Record.- 2. What is Academic Plagiarism?.- 3. A Test Case for Published Corrections: The Discipline of Philosophy.- 4. Academic Whistleblowing.- 5. Publishing Corrections of the Scholarly Record: Some Test Cases.- 6. Contested Authorship, Self-Plagiarism, and the Scholarly Record.- Conclusion: Beyond the Published Retraction.- Index.

“Dr. Michael Dougherty’s recently published book provides useful frameworks for thinking about correcting the scholarly record once plagiarism has occurred. … The focus on correcting the scholarly record from the perspective of an experienced whistleblower makes Dougherty’s book particularly insightful and useful. … I applaud Dougherty for this informative and courageous book.” (Mark Fox, Publishing Research Quarterly, Vol. 35, 2019)“This is a work of illuminating insights, historical depth, and moral clarity in the pursuit of correcting the record of scholarly research from plagiarism. … This volume will stand up as one of the seminal works on plagiarism in the scholarship of academic research in the humanities … .” (Sheldon Krimsky, Accountability in Research, February, 10, 2019)​“Correcting the Scholarly Record for Research Integrity is both a major contribution to publication ethics in general, and at the same time a path-breaking study of the ethics of philosophy publishing. It should be an obligatory item on reading lists for graduate students in philosophy.” (Sven Ove Hansson, Theoria, Vol. 85 (2), 2019)