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Even when scientific misconduct is unintentional, breaking the publishing ethics rules can badly damage your reputation as a researcher. As an author, it is your responsibility to ensure that you publish ethically and maintain the standards of academic publishing. Ethics issue include:
l Duplicate submission. This occurs when an author submits a paper to different publications at the same time. As a result, the paper may appear in multiple journals.
l Research fraud. Falls into two broad categories: 1) Fabrication - making up research data and results and recording or reporting them, and 2) Falsification - manipulating research materials, images, data, equipment, or processes.
l Plagiarism. One of the most common types of publication misconduct, it occurs when an author deliberately uses another’s work without permission, credit, or acknowledgment.
l Authorship. The term “author” is generally agreed to describe someone who has made a significant intellectual contribution to the study. Deliberately excluding an author, or adding someone who does not meet the criteria, is considered a form of misconduct.
l Conflict of interests. As an article author, it is essential to be transparent about competing commitments, interests or loyalties.
l Salami slicing. This term describes the “slicing” of research that would form one meaningful paper into several different papers.
Article Correction, Retraction and Removal Policy
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