Behind Scientific Honesty Stands Scientific Bravery

Scientific Lectures

Scientific information overload in vision: What is behind?

S s r U t a e r t s s s i o t s a i a c p s a As in any other scientific areas, there is an information overload in Optometry and Visual Sciences due to the increasing number of publications and journals in this area. This situation has been defined with the term infobesity1 or infoxication,2 and it is currently leading to new conflicts and problems that should be solved in order to avoid the c...

Introduction of Scientific Quality Index

The Scientific Quality Index (SQI) was proposed as a qualitative index in 2017 to evaluate the scientific outputs of researchers. In this article, in addition to introducing this index, the results of the most recent researches using this index are mentioned to provide the necessary background for related researches within the country.

Scientific Certificate of Applied Ethics

Applied ethics is a major having a significant role in attracting the attention of the intellectuals and even the public readers regarding the importance of ethical discussions including discussions of the ethical philosophy. However, since only four decades have been passed from the contemporary approach of the scholars of ethics in this field, it is still considered to be a new and evolving d...

Scientific Globish versus scientific English.

The proposed adoption of 'scientific Globish' as a simplified language standard for scholarly communication may appeal to authors who have difficulty with English proficiency. However, Globish might not justify the hopes being pinned on it and might open the door to further deterioration of the quality of English-language scientific writing.