RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS AND ETHICS

Paper Code: 
HHD 145
Credits: 
2
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: 
Philosophy and Ethics
Introduction to philosophy: definition; nature & scope; concept; branches 
• Ethics: definition; moral philosophy; nature of moral judgements & reactions
 
6.00
Unit II: 
Scientific Conduct
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: 
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
 
3.00
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
 
3.00
Unit V: 
Databases & Research Metrics Databases
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
 
References: 
• 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.
 
Academic Year: 
2022-2023
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