Book Overview
Research and Publication Ethics: Principles, Practices and Professional Integrity provide a comprehensive framework for understanding and applying ethical principles throughout the research and scholarly publishing lifecycle. The book examines the foundations of research ethics, research integrity, responsible conduct of research, and the ethical responsibilities of researchers, institutions, editors, reviewers, and publishers. It addresses major forms of research misconduct, including fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, duplicate publication, self-plagiarism, data manipulation, inappropriate authorship, and citation manipulation. The book further explores ethical research design, data collection and management, informed consent, confidentiality, research involving human participants and animals, institutional ethics committees, conflicts of interest, authorship practices, peer review, corrections, retractions, and post-publication responsibilities.
