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to present the basic principles and standards of ethics in medical research and publishing, as well as the need for continuing education in the principles and ethics in science and publication in biomedicine. an analysis of relevant materials and documents, sources from the published literature. investing in education of researches and potential researches, already in the level of medical schoo...

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on november 1st  2016, springer nature announced that springer and biomed central are retracting 58 articles published by iran-based authors across seven journals. the decision was made after thorough investigation following receiving allegations of plagiarism, peer review, and authorship manipulation in an effort to mislead the review system (1, 2). not all papers were involved with all of the...

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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=...

the present article is a brief presentation of various aspects of scientific misconduct in medical papers. the best approach for prevention of scientific misconduct in medical journals is the application of accepted codes of publication ethics.

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...