RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS AND ETHICS

Paper Code: 
HFN 145
Credits: 
02
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
To understand the causes, risk factors and underlying changes in the body during various non communicable diseases
To understand the role of modified diet and life style in the management of the disease and their complications
 
4.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I
Philosophy and Ethics
 • Introduction to philosophy: definition; nature & scope; concept; branches 
• Ethics: definition; moral philosophy; nature of moral judgements & reactions
 
6.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II

Scientific Conduct • Ethics with respect to science & research, group discussion on subject specific ethical issues • Intellectual honesty & research integrity • Scientific misconducts: falsification, fabrication, & plagiarism (FPP), group discussion on subject specific FPP issues • Redundant publications: duplicate & overlapping publications, salami slicing • Selective reporting & misrepresentation of data

7.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III
Publication Ethics                                                                                                    
• Publication ethics: definition, introduction & importance 
• Best practices/standard setting initiative & guidelines: COPE, WAME etc
 • Conflicts of interest, group discussions on conflicts of interest 
• Publication misconducts: definition, concept, problems that lead to unethical behaviour     & vice versa, types
 • Violation of publication ethics, authorship & contributor-ship, group discussion on subject specific authorship issues
 • Identification of publication misconduct, complaints & appeals, group discussion on examples and fraud from India & abroad
 • Predatory Publishers & journals
 
7.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV
Open Access Publishing 
• Open access publications & initiatives SHERPA/RoMEO online resource to check publisher copyright & selfarchiving policies 
• Journal finder/journal suggestion tools viz. JANE, Elsevier Journal Finder, Springer Journal Suggester etc. 
• Software tools developed by SPPU to identify predatory publications
 • Software tools: use of plagiarism software like Turnitin, Urkund, and other open source software tools
 
6.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V
Databases & Research Metrics Databases (3 hrs) 
• Indexing databases 
• Citation databases: Web of Science, Scopus, etc. 
Research Metrics (3 hrs) 
Impact Factor of journal as per Journal Citation Report, SNIP, SJR, IPP, Cite Score
Metrics: h-index, g index, i10 index, altmetrics
 
Essential Readings: 
Bird, A (2006) . Phylosophy of Science.Routledge 
MacIntyre, Alasdair.(1967) Ashort story of Ethics.London
P.Chaddah.(2018) . Ethics in Competitive Research: Do not get scooped; do not get plagiarized, ISBN 978-9387480865
National Academy of Sciences , National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine. (2009). On being a Scientist: A guide to Responsible Conduct in Research: third Edition.National Academic Press.
Resnik ,D.B. (2011). What is ethics in Research and why it is important. National institute of Enviornmental Health Sciences , 1-10.
Beall, J.(2012). Predatory publishers are corrupting open access. Nature. 489(7415), 179-179
Indian National Science Academy(INSA), Ethics in Science Education, Research and Governance (2019), ISBN: 978-81-939482-1-7.
 
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