Methodological Artefacts, Data Manipulation and Fraud in Economics and Social Science

Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Guest Editorial -- Abhandlungen / Original Papers -- The Production of Historical "Facts": How the Wrong Number of Participants in the Leipzig Monday Demonstration on October 9,1989 Became a Convention / Opp, Karl-Dieter -- "True Believers" or Numerical Terrorism at the Nuclear Power Plant / Krämer, Walter / Arminger, Gerhard -- One-eyed Epidemiologie Dummies at Nuclear Power Plants / Greiser, Eberhard -- Are Most Published Research Findings False? / Diekmann, Andreas -- What Fuels Publication Bias? / Auspurg, Katrin / Hinz, Thomas -- The Identification and Prevention of Publication Bias in the Social Sciences and Economics / Weiß, Bernd / Wagner, Michael -- Benford's Law as an Instrument for Fraud Detection in Surveys Using the Data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) / Schräpler, Jörg-Peter -- When Does the Second-Digit Benford's Law-Test Signal an Election Fraud? / Shikano, Susumu / Mack, Verena -- Difficulties Detecting Fraud? The Use of Benford's Law on Regression Tables / Bauer, Johannes / Gross, Jochen -- Plagiarism in Student Papers: Prevalence Estimates Using Special Techniques for Sensitive Questions / Coutts, Elisabeth / Jann, Ben / Krumpal, Ivar / Näher, Anatol-Fiete -- Pitfalls of International Comparative Research: Taking Acquiescence into Account / Franzen, Axel / Vogl, Dominikus -- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews / Alfarano, Simone / Kifmann, Mathias / Brühn, Tim / Paha, Johannes -- Backmatter