The scientific publishing enterprise is strongly reliant on the ethics of the scientific community. Editors and reviewers do their best to identify areas of concern when a paper is subjected to peer-review, but often those best able to indentify ethical problems are the senior and contributing authors. The most common area of ethical concern is authorship, but prior publication publication and plagiarism also occur with some frequency. The talk will highlight common problems encountered by authors, editors and reviewers related to ethical issues. In addition, best practices will be discussed from the viewpont of the submitting author to alleviate possible ethical problems that may arise upon submission of a paper.

Ethics in scientific publication: Observations of an editor and recommended best practices for authors

247th National Meeting (2014)

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