parts: ‘Research ethics,’ ‘Authorship,’ ‘Conflict of interest,’ and ‘Copyright policy.’ Prohibition of redundant publication is mentioned in the ‘Editorial policy’ section of the ‘Editorial and Review Policy’ section. Each manuscript is peer reviewed by three anonymous reviewers selected by the editor and associate editors (‘Peer-review process’ part). General ethical guidelines in HIR are desc...

Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS) in partnership with Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) UK organized a two day Second International Congress on Publication Ethics at Shiraz from December 4-5th 2014. It was held in collaboration with Iranian Medical Journals Commission, Iranian Society of Medical Editors and National Committee for Ethics in Medical Research Dr. Behrooz Astaneh Ch...

سخن سردبیر editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره 13، دی 1393، 924-923       طبقه بندی سوء رفتارهای پژوهشی   classification of research misconduct   محسن رضائیان[1] m. rezaeian   خلافکاری های پژوهشی (research misconduct) مشتمل بر طیف وسیعی از رفتارهای بسیار مخرب تا رفتارهای کمتر مخربی را در بر می گیرد که می توان مهمترین آنها را به شرح زیر طبقه بندی نمود ]2-1[: —جعل داده ها — تحریف داده ...

INTRODUCTION AND AIM To present the basic principles and standards of scientific communication and writing a paper, to indicate the importance of honesty and ethical approach to research and publication of results in scientific journals, as well as the need for continuing education in the principles and ethics in science and publication in biomedicine. METHODS An analysis of relevant material...

As with all research journals, EMHJ has encountered cases of suspected infringement of ethical research conduct and publication, including lack of ethical clearance and/or informed consent of participants when needed and instances of plagiarism and duplicate publication. Our experience in addressing such incidents suggested that in some cases the authors were genuinely unaware of or unfamiliar ...

Numerous biases are believed to affect the scientific literature, but their actual prevalence across disciplines is unknown. To gain a comprehensive picture of the potential imprint of bias in science, we probed for the most commonly postulated bias-related patterns and risk factors, in a large random sample of meta-analyses taken from all disciplines. The magnitude of these biases varied widel...

As with all research journals, EMHJ has encountered cases of suspected infringement of ethical research conduct and publication, including lack of ethical clearance and/or informed consent of participants when needed and instances of plagiarism and duplicate publication. Our experience in addressing such incidents suggested that in some cases the authors were genuinely unaware of or unfamiliar ...

As with all research journals, EMHJ has encountered cases of suspected infringement of ethical research conduct and publication, including lack of ethical clearance and/or informed consent of participants when needed and instances of plagiarism and duplicate publication. Our experience in addressing such incidents suggested that in some cases the authors were genuinely unaware of or unfamiliar ...

OBJECTIVES To study whether systematic reviewers apply procedures to counter-balance some common forms of research malpractice such as not publishing completed research, duplicate publications, or selective reporting of outcomes, and to see whether they identify and report misconduct. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of systematic reviews and survey of their authors. PARTICIPANTS 118 systema...