Scientific publication and preprint

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...

Preprint servers facilitate scientific discourse.

Preprints are scientificmanuscripts posted online before formal peer-review and publication in journals. Preprints have become prominent in scientific publishing, which is increasingly shaped by an emphasis on speed, transparency, and accessibility. Important as they are, those factors are entwined with the journal’s primary role as an arbiter of the rigor and significance of scientific scholar...

Research and scientific publication integrity.

Ethics in Scientific Publication

T principles that govern the ethics of scientific publication are no different than for any other endeavor: complete and accurate reporting and appropriate attribution to the contributions of others. However, as always, “the devil is in the details.” The ethical responsibilities of authors and reviewers are sufficiently important and complex that the editors of the American Chemical Society jou...

[Scientific publication triad].

Considerations are made about the competitiveness, impactedness and internationality as characters required for the scientific publications evaluation in Brazil. The relative merits of this judgement system is appraised in the face of the Third World realities.