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Authorship , Publishing , Retraction of Publication as Topic , Authorship/standards , Publishing/economics , Publishing/ethics , Publishing/legislation & jurisprudence , Publishing/standards , Periodicals as Topic/economics , Periodicals as Topic/ethics , Periodicals as Topic/legislation & jurisprudence , Periodicals as Topic/statistics & numerical dataSubject(s)
Artificial Intelligence , Publishing , Science , Writing , Artificial Intelligence/ethics , Artificial Intelligence/legislation & jurisprudence , Artificial Intelligence/trends , Ethics, Research , Publishing/ethics , Publishing/legislation & jurisprudence , Publishing/standards , Science/ethics , Science/methods , Science/standards , Writing/standards , Authorship/standardsSubject(s)
Copyright/legislation & jurisprudence , Internet/legislation & jurisprudence , Publishing/legislation & jurisprudence , Research Report/legislation & jurisprudence , Science/education , Science/legislation & jurisprudence , India , Periodicals as Topic/economics , Research Personnel/education , Societies, Scientific/legislation & jurisprudence , StudentsSubject(s)
Biomedical Research/economics , Biomedical Research/ethics , Clinical Trials as Topic/economics , Clinical Trials as Topic/ethics , Conflict of Interest/economics , Research Support as Topic/economics , Research Support as Topic/ethics , Bias , Biomedical Research/legislation & jurisprudence , Conflict of Interest/legislation & jurisprudence , Drug and Narcotic Control/legislation & jurisprudence , Europe , Humans , Information Dissemination/ethics , Information Dissemination/legislation & jurisprudence , Patents as Topic/ethics , Patents as Topic/legislation & jurisprudence , Publishing/economics , Publishing/ethics , Publishing/legislation & jurisprudence , Research Support as Topic/legislation & jurisprudence , United StatesSubject(s)
Dermatology , International Cooperation/history , Publishing/organization & administration , Societies, Medical/organization & administration , Asia , Congresses as Topic , Copyright/economics , Copyright/history , Copyright/legislation & jurisprudence , Dermatologists/education , Europe , History, 21st Century , Humans , International Cooperation/legislation & jurisprudence , Publishing/ethics , Publishing/history , Publishing/legislation & jurisprudence , Societies, Medical/ethics , Societies, Medical/history , Societies, Medical/legislation & jurisprudence , United StatesSubject(s)
Dermatology , Publishing/organization & administration , Societies, Medical/organization & administration , Congresses as Topic , Copyright/economics , Copyright/history , Copyright/legislation & jurisprudence , Governing Board , History, 21st Century , International Cooperation/history , International Cooperation/legislation & jurisprudence , Patents as Topic/history , Patents as Topic/legislation & jurisprudence , Publishing/ethics , Publishing/history , Publishing/legislation & jurisprudence , Societies, Medical/history , Societies, Medical/legislation & jurisprudenceSubject(s)
Copyright/history , Dermatology , International Cooperation/legislation & jurisprudence , Publishing/legislation & jurisprudence , Societies, Medical/legislation & jurisprudence , Copyright/economics , Copyright/legislation & jurisprudence , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , International Cooperation/history , Patents as Topic/history , Patents as Topic/legislation & jurisprudence , Publishing/economics , Publishing/history , Publishing/organization & administration , Societies, Medical/historySubject(s)
Gastroenterology , Liver Diseases , Periodicals as Topic , Publishing , Quality Improvement , Research/standards , Editorial Policies , Government Regulation , Humans , Journal Impact Factor , Periodicals as Topic/standards , Periodicals as Topic/trends , Publishing/legislation & jurisprudence , Publishing/organization & administration , Publishing/standards , Quality Improvement/organization & administration , Quality Improvement/trends , Reproducibility of ResultsSubject(s)
Authorship/standards , Copyright/ethics , Periodicals as Topic/standards , Plagiarism , Brazil , Conflict of Interest , Copyright/legislation & jurisprudence , Editorial Policies , Humans , Open Access Publishing , Periodicals as Topic/ethics , Periodicals as Topic/legislation & jurisprudence , Publishing/ethics , Publishing/legislation & jurisprudence , Publishing/standardsSubject(s)
Periodicals as Topic/legislation & jurisprudence , Periodicals as Topic/standards , Publishing/legislation & jurisprudence , Publishing/standards , Research/legislation & jurisprudence , Research/standards , India , Periodicals as Topic/supply & distribution , Research Personnel/standards , Universities/standardsABSTRACT
Do you remember the first (or 40th) time you received notification that a manuscript you submitted to a journal was accepted? Did you dance around your office, yell so loudly that the person in the office next door came to check on you, and/or immediately post the news to Facebook and Twitter to ensure that your success would be broadcast to all your friends and relatives? And did you then download the required forms and merrily sign them before scanning or faxing them back to the journal? Like many of you, I have done all of the above.
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Copyright , Editorial Policies , Periodicals as Topic/legislation & jurisprudence , Academic Dissertations as Topic , Authorship , Copyright/legislation & jurisprudence , Duplicate Publications as Topic , Oncology Nursing , Publishing/legislation & jurisprudence , Publishing/standards , SoftwareSubject(s)
Jurisprudence , Medicine/trends , Balkan Peninsula , Humans , Publishing/legislation & jurisprudenceSubject(s)
Atherosclerosis , Biomedical Research/legislation & jurisprudence , Cardiology/legislation & jurisprudence , Open Access Publishing/legislation & jurisprudence , Periodicals as Topic , Biomedical Research/economics , Biomedical Research/organization & administration , Cardiology/economics , Cardiology/organization & administration , Cost Allocation , Editorial Policies , Europe , Health Policy , Humans , Open Access Publishing/economics , Publishing/economics , Publishing/legislation & jurisprudence , Research Personnel/economicsABSTRACT
A recent National Academy report on research integrity noted that policies are not evidence-based, with no formal entity responsible to attend to this deficit. Here we describe four areas of research misconduct (RM) regulations governing Public Health Service funded research that are empirically and/or ethically questionable. Policies for human subject protection, RM and conflict of interest are not harmonized, making it extremely difficult to deal with complex cases which often contain allegations in all of these areas. Second, detection of RM has depended entirely on whistleblowers in spite of evidence of significant under-reporting. Third, the scientific record is far from cleansed of the effects of falsified/fabricated work through current mechanisms of retraction. Finally, lack of fairness in the regulations may reflect lack of a Belmont Report-like document to guide ethics of RM policy. These issues are likely common in other countries. RM regulations should be harmonized with related regulations and their effectiveness tracked, open access to data for independent replication and improved statistical tests are an essential supplement to whistleblowers, correction of the scientific record will require a major effort, and further ethical analysis and guidance are as important as is empirical study for the improvement of RM regulations. Further consideration should be given to assigning current regulations for human subjects protection, RM and conflict of interest to a single authority and to the further development of a Belmont-like report of essential principles, for RM.