فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

 Throughout the evolution of scientific research, various types of populism have been identified. One of the critical terms in the scientific research lexicon is scientific populism, which refers to instances that extend beyond the usual plagiarism. Scientific populism is often associated with scientific immorality and deceptive practices in scientific environments. Given the prevalence of research fraud and immoralities in academic settings, this study aims to introduce and explain the dimensions and characteristics of scientific populism as a new concept. This study employed a qualitative method and was grounded in theory. The research population included the top Iranian researchers listed in the Essential Science Indicators. Participants were selected through sequential snowball sampling, and the data were collected through in-depth interviews. Findings were presented based on the participants’ perception, understanding, and interpretation, causal conditions, intervening conditions, strategies, and the consequences of scientific populism. To this end, the data were divided into codes and themes. The resulting themes were then used to extract related categories and subcategories associated with the phenomenon. Results showed that the process of scientific populism can be understood based on logical principles, because the anomalies in the scientific and academic settings originate from factors such as disbelief in the system of creation, diminution of the principles of research ethics, lack of an intelligent system for detecting violations in scientific productions, dominance of personal interest over regulations and rules, inefficient employment regulations, poor review and assessment protocols in some journals, and resort to scientific immorality to gain promotion.