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Research and Publication Ethics
Research and Publication Ethics
1
Some areas of research ethics:
1. Research misconduct (falsification,
fabrication and plagiarism)
2. Collaboration issues (authorship, data
ownership and management)
3. Conflict of interest
4. Peer review
5. Funding sources
6. Animal subject research
Data Fabrication
First author
Corresponding author
Other author(s)
First author
Contributed most to the work including the
writing of the manuscript
• Experimental design
• Bulk of the experiments
• Data analysis
• Writing of the paper.
Corresponding author
The corresponding author is in most cases the principal
investigator/ senior author
• Design of the work
• Supervises experiments
• Verify the results
• Data interpretation
• Takes primary responsibility for communication the
manuscript to journal, peer review, and publication
process.
Gift (guest) and Ghost Authorship
under review.