Research Misconduct in Chinese Universities
Towards an Emotional Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6432047 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xinqu Zhang (0000-0002-6212-4880, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1953-1970 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Academic Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1570-1727 • E-ISSN: 1572-8544 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10805-025-09636-w |
| OpenAlex | W4409877631 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 61 |
Studies about the causes of research misconduct focus on a limited range, and negative emotions are an omitted but critical area. By utilizing theories from sociology and criminology of emotions, the current study adopts an emotional aspect to analyze researchers’ academic integrity issues in Chinese universities. Particularly, it examines how working stress, caused by the aggressive implementation of national policies for chasing more influential academic publications in top domestic and international journals, influences faculty members’ emotional feelings, arguing that due to worries about job security and a lack of means to release negative emotions, some scholars may choose to engage in misconduct to cope with, seeing it as reasonable and acceptable. The author adopts a qualitative approach (i.e., in-depth interviews and content analysis of official documents) for data collection and analysis. This study contributes to the study of research misconduct because it provides an emotional aspect to analyze the causes of such deviance in academics. It does not aim to defend wrongdoers’ breaching academic integrity; it provides a new angle to analyze the causes of research integrity issues
Criminology · Misconduct · Political science · Scientific Misconduct · Deception detection and forensic psychology · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
The Cognitive Structure of Emotions
Job Stress, Employee Health, and Organizational Effectiveness
The dynamic architecture of emotion
Variety is the spice of life
Interactive Effects of Personality and Perceptions of the Work Situation on Workplace Deviance.
Appraisal Theories of Emotion
The dimensionality of counterproductivity
Appraisal Theory
Appraisal Considered as a Process of Multilevel Sequential Checking
Health Psychology
Appraisal Theory Overview, Assumptions, Varieties, Controversies
Core affect and the psychological construction of emotion.
Coping
The Importance of What We Care About
Research misconduct in China
Building on the Foundation of General Strain Theory
Counterproductive work behavior
Conducting In-Depth Interviews via Mobile Phone with Persons with Common Mental Disorders and Multimorbidity
Social influences on the emotion process
Self-efficacy and Self-control Mediate the Relationship Between Negative Emotions and Attitudes Toward Plagiarism
Guilt, Shame and Academic Misconduct
The politics of higher education in China
An Introduction to the Social Psychology of Insults in Organizations
Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency
Toward an integrative approach to the study of stress
Coping with job stress and burnout in the human services
Structure of Emotions
Emotions are social
A Revised Strain Theory of Delinquency
Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure
When Criminal Coping is Likely
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |