Unethical Research Practices

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5 Unethical Practices to Avoid While Publishing
Your Research
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Unethical Practices in Scientific Research

• Performing a medical research and documenting the
  findings in a research paper are painstaking and
  time-consuming process. Nevertheless, the
  research authors must conform to the scientific
  ethics at each stage of performing a research and
  documenting its results.
• Ethics, derived from the Greek word ethikos
  are a set of principles for right conduct in a
  particular field.
• They carry a greater significance in the field
  of medical research and publication as these are
  directly related to the suffering humanity.

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• In recent times, there has been a gradual neglect
  towards the ethical principles guiding
  a scientific research paper writing, and its
  publication.
• The misconduct in behavior may be intentional or
  may arise due to ignorance. Whatever be the cause
  of misconduct, the consequence is the same. And
  it not only affects other authors, reviewers, and
  editors, but also the common man.
• As a research author, its absolutely essential
  to abreast yourself with these ethical principles
  and avoid any scientific misconduct.

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Here is a list of 5 common unethical practices
you must avoid while publishing your research
paper
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1.Duplicate Submission

• Submission of your research paper or its
  publication in two or more identical journals
  with or without acknowledgement to another is
  called duplicate submission/publication.

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• Such a practice is done by authors to increase
  their number of publications.
• But, bear in mind! Its unethical as it wastes
  the time of journal reviewers, publication
  resources, and renders no benefit to humanity or
  scientific community.
• You can query multiple journals for submitting
  your research paper, but finally submit to one
  only!

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2.Falsification/Fabrication of
Research Data

• Falsification is the manipulation of the methods
  used in research or its key findings to produce a
  desired outcome. Fabrication is the false
  recording or recording of a fictitious data when
  none exists.

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• Such practices are more common in pharmaceutical
  industry where results are fabricated to promote
  a particular drug in the market, ignoring its
  side-effects.
• Not only unethical and wastage of limited
  research resources, such fabrications have
  negative effects on the physicians clinical
  practice and creates mistrust amongst the
  consumers or general population.

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3.Plagiarism

• Plagiarism is the practice of using others work
  or ideas in your scientific writing without
  giving them due credit and passing them off as
  ones own in publication journals to gain
  recognition. Even using your own text from other
  publications in the current writing without due
  reference is considered plagiarism, more
  specifically called self-plagiarism.

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• If you think you are smart and your plagiarized
  content will escape the eyes of the journal
  editors, you are highly mistaken. Detection of
  plagiarism has become easier with the advent of
  numerous plagiarism checking tools.
• Sometimes plagiarism is not intentional, but
  happens accidentally. However, you can avoid it
  by providing references of all the sources you
  have used for writing your scientific content.
• Always cite the author appropriately whose work
  you use in your research paper, even if they are
  from your past publications.

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4.Authorship Conflict

• As per the International Committee of Medical
  Journal Editor (ICMJE) guidelines, any person who
  contributes to the conception, designing or
  acquisition of research data, analysis of data,
  drafting or revision of the article, and its
  final approval before publication is entitled for
  the authorship of that paper.

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• Following unethical practices surmount to an
  authorship conflict
• Not including the name of the person who
  contributes to the research in any manner.
• Failure to obtain consent from a person whose
  name is cited in the manuscript.
• Adding an extra author or removing the name of an
  existing author before or after publication.
• Citing a person as an author just on the basis of
  seniority, family or professional relationship
  when none of them contributed to the research or
  its writing.
• The conflict can be prevented by deciding the
  authorship in the beginning of the research.
  Thats the reason why journals ask the authors to
  submit their checklist for the criteria of
  authorship.

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5.Conflict of Interest

• Conflict of interest is a situation in which the
  author of the research study may be influenced by
  personal and/or financial considerations to
  affect the quality or the end result of the
  research.
• If any such conflicts of interest arise, be they
  personal, financial or any other, they must be
  disclosed with complete honesty to the editorial
  team.

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• Though our publication support services experts
  guidelines and principles exist to prevent any
  misconduct in research and publication, ideally
  you shouldnt require them.
• Self-restraint and welfare of the fellow members
  of the community must be the sole driving force
  for conducting an honest research and publication.

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