Hans Werner Gottinger

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Hans Werner Gottinger (* 1943 ) is a German economist .

Life

Gottinger studied mathematics and economics in Göttingen and Munich and became a professor in Bielefeld in 1973, where he worked until 1980. In 1979 he was dismissed from his position at the GSF Research Center in Munich because of a forgery in an application for research funding from the EU . He then worked in Oxford for the Institute for Energy Studies and in Oslo at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research . In 1988 he became director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Scientific and Technical Trend Analysis in Euskirchen , but he was fired again in December 1988 due to a suspicion of plagiarism.

During his career, Gottinger published over 100 scientific articles in specialist journals.

Allegations of plagiarism

In a report in the journal Nature , which appeared on August 9, 2007, massive allegations of plagiarism were raised against Gottinger. According to the report, the journal Research Policy withdrew an article by Gottinger from 1993, which he had copied from an article in the Journal of Business in 1980. The magazine also accused him of further plagiarism from 1996 ( copied from 1992 article from Economics of Innovation and New Technology ) and 2002 ( copied from 1997 article from Journal of Environmental Economics and Management ). As a result, Ben Martin, Editor of Research Policy , wanted to contact Gottinger's employer, Maastricht University. It turned out that he was never employed at this university and that the institute that Gottinger had named as the employer since the 1980s did not even exist. A number of other articles and several books by Gottinger are also suspected of being partially or fully copied. Gottinger himself rejected all allegations; it is a "misunderstanding".

In April 2008 new allegations against Gottinger were loud. He was supposed to lead a workshop in Porto for the Belgian organization Eurosis. However, this was canceled after the organizers found out that Gottinger is not - as he stated - a professor at the STRATEC Institute of the Technical University of Munich. The TU Munich announced that it had neither employed Gottinger nor that such a TU institute existed. The journal Nature also reported that 13 plagiarism had been detected in the meantime (“13 confirmed cases”).

Books

  • Foundations of Decision Analysis (published in German: Fundamentals of Decision Theory, 1974)
  • Subjective Probabilities (published in German: Subjective Probabilities, 1974)
  • Decision Theory and Social Ethics, together with W. Leinfellner (1978)
  • Elements of Statistical Analysis (1980)
  • Coping with Complexity: Perspectives for Economics and Management (1983)
  • The Management of Public Programs (published in German: The Management of Public Tasks, 1986)
  • Elements of Statistical Analysis (1986)
  • Artificial Intelligence: A Tool for Management and Business, together with P. Weimann (1990)
  • Economic Models of Solid Waste Management (1991)
  • Hazardous Waste: Economic Risk Reductions (1997)
  • Global Telecommunications and the Internet, together with M. Takashima (1998)
  • Global Environmental Economics (1998)
  • Economies of Network Industries (2003)
  • Innovation, Technology and Hypercompetition (2006).

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academic accused of living on borrowed lines. Nature Volume 448, pp. 632-633, August 9, 2007, doi : 10.1038 / 448632b
  2. ^ " Decorated with foreign feathers" Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 8, 2007
  3. ↑ "The fraudster returns ..." Nature Volume 452, from April 10, 2008, p. 672, doi : 10.1038 / 452672c
personal data
SURNAME Gottinger, Hans Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943