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...

Dear Editor, I read the recent publication on “Misconduct in Research and Publication” with great interest[1]. I agree that misconduct in research and publication is not uncommon. Nevertheless, it is rarely mentioned. In fact, there are many incorrect conceptions among researchers on publication ethics. The milder examples are attempts to report only the “positive outcomes&rdq...

Although ‘‘a large number of studies have appeared in the literature that report associations of low penetrance genetic variants with disease,’’ as suggested in the recent CEBP editorial (1), hardly any of these reports have been translated into solid results by replication studies, at least for the common cancers. To some extent this is inevitable, as false-positive associations are an inheren...

سخن سردبیر   editorial   مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان   دوره نهم، شماره چهارم ، زمستان 138 9، 248-247     انتشار اضافی   redundant publication     محسن رضائیان [1]   m. rezaeian در سخن سردبیری زمستان 1388 مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان که به موضوع «اخلاق انتشار» ( publication ethics ) پرداخته بود [1]، به مواردی از عدم رعایت اخلاق انتشار توسط نویسندگان یک مقاله از جمله «سرقت علمی» ( plagiari...

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.

biological marker is a term used in many scientific fields and was introduced as a measurable element or a clinical indicator in the abnormal biological processes, pathological condition, or pharmacological intervention. science citation index expanded (sci-e) from database of web of science (wos) was used to extract all publication indexed as a topic of “ biomarkers ” during a period of eleven...