Publication ethics and etiquette: The golden commandments!

Ethics, ethical comportment, and etiquette.

There has been discussion on how various theories of ethics are similar, how they are different, and how each should be applied. Ethical theory, in general, has been presented in opposition to situation-based ethics and the ethical comportment found in socially based practices. Etiquette is one concept that has entered these debates, only peripherally, as a negative example of what healthcare p...

Ethics and etiquette in neonatal intensive care.

When parents voice their dissatisfaction with the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), it is often not because they think their baby has not received good medical care. Instead, it is often because their needs have not been addressed. Policy statements and pedagogy alike urge professionals to be empathetic, compassionate, honest, and caring. However, these theoretical concepts are generally end...

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

Ethics and scientific publication.

This article summarizes the major categories of ethical violations encountered during submission, review, and publication of scientific articles. We discuss data fabrication and falsification, plagiarism, redundant and duplicate publication, conflict of interest, authorship, animal and human welfare, and reviewer responsibility. In each section, pertinent historical background and citation of r...