Potentially Dangerous Mistakes in Publication Ethics: Unethical Authorship

Authorship inflation is unethical.

I thank Dr. Kakuk for his response to my article. Unfortunately, he seems to have misunderstood my arguments. He claims that I “fail to differentiate the problem of authorship from the problem of IFs usage”. In fact, I never actually directly linked these two problems, except to say that both trap researchers in a prisoner’s dilemma. Kakuk also claims that “The inappropriate usage of IF is not ...

Integrity in authorship and publication.

I n recent years, seemingly frequent examples of problems related to the integrity of authorship and publication have plagued the medical literature. These issues have been primarily related to the appropriateness of authorship (including ghostwriting and so-called " guest authorship " of manuscripts), duplicate publication of articles, plagiarism, scientific misconduct in the form of falsifica...

Common Mistakes in Manuscripts Submitted for Publication.

The MOJ prefers structured abstracts for original papers and unstructured abstracts for case reports. References and illustrations should not be included in the abstract. Introduction The purpose of this section is for authors to briefly introduce the subject including the aim of the study. An introduction without any references is not acceptable as references are essential for readers to verif...

Publication Ethics: A Case Series with Recommendations According to Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Ethical misconduct is not a new issue in the history of science and literature. However, ethical misconducts in science have grown considerably in the modern era which is due to emphasis on the scientific proliferation in research institutes and gauging scientists according to their publications. In the current case series, several misconducts occurring over the previous years in Mashhad Univer...

Publication ethics