EVALUATION OF ETHICAL IN INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS OF BRAZILIAN SURGICAL JOURNALS

Evaluation of Ethical in Instructions to Authors of Brazilian Surgical Journals

BACKGROUND The instructions to authors are the only means of communication between researchers and the editorial standards of a scientific journal. One of the mandatory items to be contained therein is about the ethical part, to prevent new research to carry out abuses with the enrolled on the research are published and stimulated. AIM To verify the ethical questions on the guidelines of Braz...

Quality of Publication Ethics in the Instructions to the Authors of Iranian Journals of Medical Sciences

Providing a perfect instruction to authors can prevent most potential publication ethics errors. This study was conducted to determine the quality of ethical considerations in the instructions to the authors of Iranian research scientific journals of medical sciences (accredited by the Commission for Accreditation and Improvement of Iranian Medical Journals) in October 2011. Checklist items (n=...

Emerging ethical issues in instructions to authors of high-impact biomedical journals.

Public interest in issues concerning the maintenance of high ethical standards in the conduct of scientific research and its publication has been increasing. Some of the developments in these issues as reflected in the publication of the medical literature are traced here. This paper attempts to determine whether public interest is reflected in the specific requirements for authors for manuscri...

Quality of Publication Ethics in Instructions to Authors

Do Croatian open access journals support ethical research? Content analysis of instructions to authors

INTRODUCTION The aim of our study was to investigate the extent to which Instructions to authors of the Croatian open access (OA) journals are addressing ethical issues. Do biomedical journals differ from the journals from other disciplines in that respect? Our hypothesis was that biomedical journals maintain much higher publication ethics standards. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study looked at...