Research and Publication Ethics

Unit 1 PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS & SCIENTIFIC CONDUCT
7 Topics
(a) Introduction to philosophy: definition, nature and scope, concept, branches
(b) Ethics: definition, moral philosophy, nature of moral judgments and reactions
(c) Ethics with respect to science and research
(d) Intellectual honesty and research integrity
(e) Scientific misconducts: Falsification, Fabrication, and Plagiarism (FFP)
(f) Redundant Publications: duplicate and overlapping publications, salami slicing
(g) Selective reporting and misrepresentation of data
Unit 2 PUBLICATION ETHICS
7 Topics
(a) Publication ethics: definition, introduction and importance
(b) Best practices/ standard setting initiatives and guidelines: COPE, WAME, etc.
(c) Conflict of Interest
(d) Publication misconduct: definition, concept, problems that lead to unethical behavior and vice versa, types
(e) Violation of publication ethics, complaints and appeals
(f) Identification of publication misconduct, complaints and appeals
(g) Predatory publication and journals
Unit 3 OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING
4 Topics
(a) Open access publication and initiatives
(b) SHERPA/RoMEO Online resource to check publisher copyright & self-archiving policies
(c) Software tool to identify predatory publications developed by SPPU
(d) Journal finder / journal suggestion tool viz. JANE, Elsevier Journal Finder, Springer Journal Suggestion, etc.
Unit 4 PUBLICATION MISCONDUCT
4 Topics
A. Group Discussions (a) Subject specific ethical issues, FFP, authorship
A. Group Discussions (b) Conflicts of interest
A. Group Discussions (c) Complaints and appeals: examples and fraud from India and abroad
B. Software tools (d) Use of plagiarism software like Turnitin, Urkund and other open source software tools
Unit 5 DATABASES AND RESEARCH METRICS
4 Topics
A. Databases (a) Indexing databases
A. Databases (b) Citation databases: Web of Science, Scopus, etc
B. Research Metrics (c) Impact Factor of journal as per Journal Citation Report, SNIP, SJR, IPP, Cite Score
B. Research Metrics (d) Metrics: h- Index, i10 index, altmetrics
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A. Databases (b) Citation databases: Web of Science, Scopus, etc