چکیده:
Scientific journals have a role to further progress science by providing a platform to communicate
new findings and the results of scientific research. Publication of articles is a kind of documentation
and journals are one of the most important tools for documentation. Now a day, the electronic
publication has a major role in the field of science contributing to accessibility. Like other fields, even
publication process has a code of conduct which is called as “publication ethics.” This is a self‑regulatory
mechanism insisting on integrity on the part of authors, peer reviewers, and publishers to establish
higher standards of editorial processing for the research. Violation of publication ethics is a global
problem, and it is due to the scientific misbehavior.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Criteria for Authorship To brief, in academic publishing, authorship of a work is claimed by those whose intellectual contributions other than writing the article; a researcher who comes up with an experimental design and analyzes the data may be considered as an author, even if he had little role in composing the text describing the results.
[6,10] Violation in Authorship Guidelines • By writing the text alone for others research or by funding for the study or helping for publication, or by general supervision of the research group and claiming as an author of the research • "Honorary," "guest," or "gift authorships," which are defined as the awarding of authorship out of respect or friendship, in an attempt to curry favor, and/or to give the paper a greater sense of legitimacy are considered as authorship abuse[5] • "Mutual support" authorships have been defined as an agreement by two or more investigators to place their names on each other’s papers to give the appearance of higher productivity is also a form of violation[5,6] • The United States National Academy of Sciences warns that honorary or gift authorship dilute the credit as the people who actually did the work, inflate the credentials of those so "honored," and make the proper attribution of credit more difficult.
The UCSD reports that knowing acceptance of co‑authorship by investigators without significant contribution to increase their number of publications work made science a "mockery of authorship of scientific manuscripts and is equal to the perpetuation of research fraud.
Standardization in Publication To overcome all these, citations of the articles started as a measure of the "importance" for a research paper in the scientific community, as work of greater significance is likely to be cited more often.