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Disciplinary proceedings behind her: Cornelia Koppetsch (archive)
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After allegations of plagiarism and violations of scientific work, disciplinary proceedings against sociology professor Cornelia Koppetsch have been concluded.
The Technical University (TU) Darmstadt has issued a disciplinary measure, but did not want to comment on details when asked by SPIEGEL.
For "legal reasons" one could not comment on the type of measure, said the university spokeswoman.
Koppetsch teaches and researches at the TU as a full professor at the Institute for Sociology.
"Multitude of irregularities"
At the end of 2020, a commission of inquiry classified 111 of a total of 117 critical points in two monographs and four articles as plagiarism or violations.
She spoke of a »consistently wrong way of working«.
"The checked fonts do not contain individual, punctual errors," said a press release from the university.
Rather, they show "a large number of irregularities that are widely distributed across all checked texts".
The allegations of plagiarism were raised in the run-up to the awarding of the Bavarian Book Prize in November 2019, for which Koppetsch was nominated.
She is professor for gender relations, education and lifestyle at the TU.
Koppetsch himself commented on the procedure on the website of her institute as follows: The investigative commission found "violations of good scientific practice" in some publications and articles.
"Above all, I would like to apologize in all form to the authors concerned and the public."
According to the commission's report, the TU had emphasized that it was not a question of qualification papers, such as a dissertation, but of publications by an active scientist and professor.
However, this is no reason to relax the rules of good scientific practice.
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