Prof mgmt

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Amity Business School
Course Title: Professional Ethics
And Social Responsibility For
Sustainability
Credit Units: 2
Course Code : PFE701
Faculty In Charge- Dr Jaideep Kaur

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Amity Business School
Module V: Research Ethics and Academic Integrity
 Best practices in research / standards setting initiatives
and guidelines: COPE, Committee on Publication
Ethics, WAME, World Association of Medical
Editors) etc
 Academic misconducts: Falsification, Fabrication and
Plagiarism (FFP)
 Redundant publications: duplicate and overlapping
publications, salami slicing, Selective reporting and
misrepresentation of data.
 Violation of publications ethics, authorship, and
contributor ship
 Use of plagiarism software like Turnitin, Urkund and
other open source software tools
 Complaints and appeals examples and fraud from India

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Session Objectives
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•To understand the role of COPE and WAME
•To know about the significance of publication
ethics
•To understand the violations in publication
•To evaluate the importance of software like
turnitin
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• The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is
a forum for editors of peer-reviewed journals to
discuss issues related to the integrity of the
scientific record.
• It supports and encourages editors to report,
catalogue and instigate investigations into
ethical problems in the publication process.
• COPE was established as a registered charity in
the United Kingdom in October 2007.
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COPE
•It provides advice to editors and publishers
on all aspects of publication ethics and, in
particular, how to handle cases of research
and publication misconduct.
•It also provides a forum for its members to
discuss individual cases.

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World Association of Medical Editors
The World Association of Medical Editors (abbreviated
WAME, pronounced "whammy") is an international, virtual
organization of editors of medical journals.
A medical journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that
communicates medical information to physicians and other
health professionals.
It was originally founded in 1995 by a group of members of
the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
•WAME has more than 1830 members representing more
than 1000 journals from 92 countries.

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Amity Business School
WAME has the following goals
•To facilitate worldwide cooperation and communication
among editors of peer-reviewed medical journals;
•To improve editorial standards, to promote professionalism
in medical editing through education, self-criticism and self-
regulation;
•To encourage research on the principles and practice of
medical editing.
•To produce publications that are timely, credible and
enjoyable to read;
•To recognize that, in addition to these specific objectives, a
medical journal has a social responsibility to improve the
human condition and safeguard the integrity of sciences.

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Significance of Publication Ethics
• Truthfulness in Data
• Innovativeness
• Proper Authorship and Acknowledgement
• Consistency in Methodology
• High-quality scientific publications
• Public trust in scientific findings
• People receive credit for their work and
ideas.
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Violation of publication ethics
• Fabrication is making up data or results and
recording or reporting them.
• Falsification is manipulating research materials,
equipment, or processes, or changing or
omitting data or results such that the research is
not accurately represented in the research
record.
• Plagiarism is the appropriation of another
person’s ideas, processes, results, or words
without giving appropriate credit.
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Duplicate submission-This refers to the
practice of submitting the same study to two
journals or publishing more or less the same
study in two journals
Multiple submissions-means sending
more than one story to the same publisher
Plagiarism-the practice of taking someone
else's work or ideas and passing them off as
one's own.

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Fake Affiliation-affiliation-related
misconduct in which a real, existing author
is falsely included on a paper, without telling
him or her.
Gift authorship,-Gift authorship is defined
as co-authorship awarded to a person who
has not contributed significantly to the study.

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Ghost authorship- A ghost author is a person
who has made a substantial contribution to the
research or writing of a manuscript but is not
named as an author.
Salami -Publication of two or more articles
derived from a single study
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Benefits of using a plagiarism checker
•Provides links of the source text
The good thing with plagiarism checkers is that they
provide the links for the source text that is plagiarized.
This makes it easier for anyone using the software to
determine whether the results presented are based on
substantial evidence.
•Speed
Plagiarism checkers work fast. These software
applications can search the entire web within a matter of
seconds. They then match the text in question with other
documents from around the world and highlight any
part/paragraph/section that has been plagiarized within a
short time.

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Provides the similarity percentage
• Whenever you write appropriate content and run it
through a plagiarism checker, it provides you with the
percentage of plagiarism.
Useful for writing original pieces within a short time
• Plagiarism checkers have proved to be quiet crucial,
especially to web writers who are required to write
authentic content within a quick turnaround. It can be
challenging to get the time for checking the originality of
the texts they write.
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Helps in checking your paraphrasing prowess
• Plagiarism checkers only highlight content that is
an exact match of the original author’s words. As
such, if you have paraphrased your material well
enough, then it won't show any plagiarism. You
get to know how excellent your paraphrasing
skills are if you don't get any texts highlighted as
having been copied.
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Helps in staying within the regulatory and
ethical limits
• Plagiarism checkers play a significant role for
both writers and academicians. It is important to
follow the ethical limits .
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Session Outcome
You will be able to
Explain the role of COPE and WAME
Explain the significance of publication ethics
Explain the violations in publication
Explain the importance of software like
turnitin
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