Gjuro Armen Baglivi was one of the most famous medical authorities of the 17th century. Apart from his numerous books and publications, several extensive collections of his correspondence have been preserved and are available in libraries around the world. They provide new information about the 17th century scientific culture and place of Baglivi's work in the scientific European context. Also,...

ranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (IJPBS) recently has faced to some cases of unethical duplicate submissions. These papers were published in another journal before IJPBS decelerate the reviewer’s decisions. This can be classified as self-plagiarism or even redundant publication (1). Almost all journals and publishing guidelines prohibited this act (1-4). However, some author...

In lockstep with the scientific growth across the globe, Middle East countries have made great strides in expanding their scientific horizons in recent years. Indeed, the current success rate in the publication of scientific papers in this region shows a considerable rise by comparison with that even in the recent past. Be that as it may, this ever-increasing pace in the quantity of published r...

Symptoms of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), particularly remorselessness, are frequently introduced in legal settings as a risk factor for future violence in prison, despite a paucity of research on the predictive validity of this disorder. We examined whether an ASPD diagnosis or symptom-criteria counts could prospectively predict any form of institutional misconduct, as well as aggres...

This paper examines how current legislative and regulatory models do not adequately govern the pharmaceutical industry towards ethical scientific conduct. In the context of a highly profit-driven industry, governments need to ensure ethical and legal standards are not only in place for companies but that they are enforceable. We demonstrate with examples from both industrialized and developing ...

Repeated failures to replicate reported experimental results could indicate scientific misconduct or simply result from unintended error. Experiments performed by one individual involving tritiated thymidine, published in two papers in Radiation Research, showed exponential killing of V79 Chinese hamster cells. Two other members of the same laboratory were unable to replicate the published resu...

A detailed review of all 2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012 revealed that only 21.3% of retractions were attributable to error. In contrast, 67.4% of retractions were attributable to misconduct, including fraud or suspected fraud (43.4%), duplicate publication (14.2%), and plagiarism (9.8%). Incomplete, uninformative or misleading r...