Jörg Wittkewitz ist Gutachter für empirische Methoden / gute wissenschaftliche Praxis im Auftrag von international tätigen Stiftungen und Forschungsinstitutionen (Good Research Practice / Grant Assessment) gemäß DORA, CoARA; Equator Network sowie GRADE auch mit Bezug auf QRP bzw. unsachgemäße oder schädliche Praktiken in der Forschung (forensic metascience).
Jörg Wittkewitz serves as an expert/reviewer on behalf of international foundations and research institutions (Good Research Practice / Grant Assessment) in accordance with DORA, CoARA, Equator Network, and GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation), including with regard to QRP and improper or harmful practices in research (forensic metascience).
„Questionable research practices (QRPs) are ways of producing, maintaining, sharing, analyzing, or interpreting data that are likely to produce misleading conclusions, typically in the interest of the researcher. QRPs are not normally considered to include research practices that are prohibited or proscribed in the researcher’s field (e.g., fraud, research misconduct). Neither do they include random researcher error (e.g., data loss).“ Nagy T., Hergert J., Elsherif M.M., et al. (2025)
Whether a principle is sound—tends to facilitate approaching an epistemic aim—is an empirical question, answerable only by history of science.
Paul E. Meehl, 1992