Publication Ethics and Points to Remember for Publication.pptx

Dr.D.B.Usharani
Asoociate Professor & Head
PG & Research Department of Economics
Ethiraj College for Women , Chennai

1. publication ethics

2. Publication is the most common contemporary form of research outcome . Researcher remain the owner of published work. Research is published in the form of Article, Book or Book chapters, Conference proceeding or Pre-print archive Publication Ethics Publication Ethics are rules of conduct to be followed while publishing results of scientific research or other scholarly work. Generally, it is a standard that protects intellectual property and forbids the re-publication of another's work without proper credit.

3. Authorship and Contributors Conflict of interest Publication misconduct: Plagiarism Research fraud: Fabrication Falsification Salami Slicing Points to Remember for Publication Following members involved in publications: о Authors, o Journal editors, o Peer reviewers, and Publishers

4. Inability to agree with the commands of administrative bodies Lacking moral endorsement. Integrating/including figures from the web without referencing the source. Presenting a paper for publication without assent or on the other hand information on co-authors. Not regarding the protection and privacy of study members. Use of harmful or inconsiderate language by commentators. Creating setback for publication or moral endorsement due to irreconcilable circumstance. Violation of Publication Ethics

5. A librarian Jeffrey Beall at the University of Colorado in Denver, emerged this term “Predatory Journals or Fake Journals” These have different objectives to work such as: o Publishing to make Money o No concern with Quality content o Unable to follow accepted standards o Fake advertisement or false claiming about indexing Predatory Journals

6. Predatory Journals How To Know About Fake Journal o Unstructured web page with a lot of errors o Advertisement to attract authors o Index Copernicus Value is promoted on the website of Prompt publication o No retraction policy o Policy lacking such as open access, paper security on digital platform o Asking manuscript handling charges (Sometime even very low amount to attract number of authors)

7. Preventive measures for Predatory Journals Identify reliable journals through the ' Think.Check.Submit .' website. ( https://thinkchecksubmit.org/ )   Check journal names, ISSN codes, and URLs are genuine ones; confirm any asserted metrics and indexed status. Go to the specific websites of Databases covered journals full details for example title of the journal, ISSN, e-ISSN, publishers address, DOI number and other basic details in very clear manner. Make sure that selected journals to publish research work are covered under databases like Web of Science/ SCOPUS/MEDLINE / DOAJ/ Confirm about the journals freely apparent stages for open review or publishing 'open reports.

8. COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION ETHICS (COPE) Established in 1997 COPE was established  to provide advice and guidance on best practices for dealing with ethical issues in journal publishing. COPE provides advice to editors and publishers on all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular, how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct. Included are the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, Flowcharts on how to handle problems, Cope guidelines, sample letters and a database of cases. Link :https://publicationethics.org/

9. Authors and Contributors: authorship entails responsibility and accountability for the published work. COPE suggested as an author who should contribute as one of following way: Significant contributions to conception and/or design of the work. Acquisition, analysis, and/or interpretation of data generated/ collected during the work Drafting/editing the work or revising it critically and thus contributing important intellectual content. Authorship and Contributors

10. Those who provided only assistance in Writing, Technical editing, Language editing, Proofreading Procurement of funding, General supervision of a research group General administrative support. Who Are Not Entitled As Author Or Co-author: