<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Journals and institutions have important complementary roles to play in cases of suspected research and publication misconduct. Journals should take responsibility for everything they publish and should alert institutions to cases of possible serious misconduct but should not attempt to investigate such cases. Institutions should take responsibility for their researchers and for investigating cases of possible misconduct and for ensuring journals are informed if they have published unreliable or misleading articles so that these can be retracted or corrected. Journals and institutions should have policies in place for handling such cases and these policies should respect their different roles.</p></abstract>

Journals and institutions have important complementary roles to play in cases of suspected research and publication misconduct. Journals should take responsibility for everything they publish and should alert institutions to cases of possible serious misconduct but should not attempt to investigate such cases. Institutions should take responsibility for their researchers and for investigating cases of possible misconduct and for ensuring journals are informed if they have published unreliable or misleading articles so that these can be retracted or corrected. Journals and institutions should have policies in place for handling such cases and these policies should respect their different roles.

How Should Journal Editors Respond to Cases of Suspected Misconduct?

PRILOZI

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Journals and institutions have important complementary roles to play in cases of suspected research and publication misconduct. Journals should take...

How Should Journal Editors Respond to Cases of Suspected Misconduct?

Publié en ligne: 01 mars 2015

Pages: 95 - 101

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/prilozi-2015-0014

Mots clés
Publication ethics, research misconduct, scientific journals, paper retraction

© 2015 Elizabeth Wager

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

How Should Journal Editors Respond to Cases of Suspected Misconduct?

Publié en ligne: 01 mars 2015

Pages: 95 - 101

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/prilozi-2015-0014

Mots clésPublication ethics, research misconduct, scientific journals, paper retraction

© 2015 Elizabeth Wager

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Publication ethics, research misconduct, scientific journals, paper retraction