NORMS OF SCIENCE

Communality, Universalism, Disinterestedness, Organised Scepticism, Originality, Specialism, Advocacy, Governance and Quality.

Briefing Paper: Research Integrity: What it means, Why it is important and How we might
protect it, Science Europe, December 2015 pp 3-6; Ziman, A. et al.; Merton R.K. (1942), A note
on science and democracy. Journal of Legal and Political Sociology, 1: 115-126; Ziman, J.
(2000), Real Science: What it is and what it means, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK
and New York, 412 pp.; Anderson M.S., Ronning E.M., De Vries R. and Martinson B.C. (2010),
Extending the Mertonian Norms: Scientists’ subscription to norms of research. Journal of
Higher Education, 81(3): 366-393.

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