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.

We read with interest the informative case report regarding the role of thrombolysis in massive pulmonary embolus (PE) in the Irish Medical Journal by Nagi and Hayes 1 . We agree with the authors that the role of thrombolysis in PE is still unclear. The article does, however, raise several important issues regarding the use of diagnostic images in medical literature without direct input from a ...

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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=...