Research and Publication Ethics

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
1: Philosophy of Research: An Introduction
	Overview
	Phases of Research
	Features of Good Research Study
	Educational Research and Philosophy
	Concept of Educational Philosophy and Theory
	A Philosopher in the Classroom?
	The Philosopher in an Interdisciplinary Research
	Educational Research: Pursuit of Truth
	Pragmatic Perspectives of Research
	Ethical Codes and Academic Independence
	Review Questions
	Further Reading
2: Research Ethics
	Overview
	Being Ethical and Moral
	Nature of Moral Judgment
	Nature of Ethical Reactions: Applied Settings
	Research Ethics and Positionality
	Epistemology, Ethics, and Educational Research
	Validity-Versus-Reliability Tradeoff
	Commodification of Educational Research
	Publishing and Coaching in Intercultural Settings
	Ethics and Feminist Research
	Review Questions
	Further Reading
3: Ethics in Scientific Research
	Overview
	Scientific Integrity and Research Ethics
	Issues of Authorship
	Peer Review´s Role
	Research Ethics in Human/Animal Subjects (Care)
	Issues of Intellectual Property and Science
	Conflicts of Interests
	Autonomy
	Dignity
	Beneficence/Non-maleficence
	Vulnerability and Justice
	Research Ethics Committees
	Science and Society
	Review Questions
	Further Reading
4: Intellectual Honesty and Research Integrity
	Overview
	Environment and Bases of Research Integrity
	Promoting Integrity in Research
	Evaluation by Self-Assessment
	Integrity of the Individual Research
	Support of Integrity by the Research Institution
	Research Environment and Its Impact on Research Integrity
	Fostering Integrity in Research
	Promoting Honesty in Research
	Principles of Adult Learning
	Review Questions
	Further Reading
5: Scientific Misconduct
	Overview
	Poor Practices vs. Misconduct
	Fabrication/Falsification
	Stealing Credit
	Institutional Responses to Scientific Misconduct
	Administrative Responses to Scientific Misconduct
	Misconduct in Regulated Research
	What is Plagiarism?
	Types of Plagiarism
	What to Look For
	Review Questions
	Further Reading
6: Redundant Publications
	Overview
	Authorship Issues
	Problems Caused by Redundant Publication
	Acceptability and Consequences of Redundancy
	How to Prevent Redundancy?
	Salami Slicing
	Simultaneous Submission
	Competing Interests
	Misrepresentation of Data
	Publish Ethically
	Review Questions
	Further Reading
7: Publication Ethics
	Overview
	Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
	How to Deal with Misconduct in COPE
	The World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)
	International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE)
	Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS)
	International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)
	The European Association of Science Editors (EASE)
	Conflicts of Interest
	Editorial Independence and Commercial Issues
	Review Questions
	Further Reading
8: Publication Misconduct
	Overview
	Misconduct by Editors, Publishers, and Peer-Reviewers
	Types of Publication Misconduct
	Human Rights, Privacy, and Confidentiality
	Cultures and Heritage
	Registering Clinical Trials and Animals in Research
	Editorial Independence and Commercial Issues
	Appeals and Corrections
	Violation of Publication Ethics
	Concept of Spin
	Predatory Publishers and Journals
	Review Questions
	Further Reading
9: Global Intellectual Property Law
	Overview
	The International Law and Political Economy of Intellectual Property
	Legal, Philosophical and Economic Justifications
	Copyright
	Patents and Trade Secrets
	Trademarks
	International Human Rights and Intellectual Property
	Information Technologies and the Internet
	Intellectual Property and Development
	Education, Culture, and Knowledge
	Review Questions
	Further Reading
10: Open Access Publishing
	Overview
	Promoting Open Access
	Institutional Repositories: Content and Culture
	The Changing Information Environment
	Changing Information Seeking Behaviors
	The Organizational View
	Infrastructure, Sustainability, and Advocacy
	Content Decisions and Legal Issues
	Conceptual Models of Information
	Metadata Standards
	Types of Material and their Differences
	Gray Literature and Journal Article
	Preprint and Other Modes
	Open Archival Information System Model
	Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies (PREMIS)
	Access Tools and Services to Open Access
	Role of Libraries
	The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
	The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
	Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
	Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
	The SHERPA/RoMEO Application Programmer´s Interface
	Elsevier Journal Finder
	Springer Journal Suggester
	Review Questions
	Further Reading
11: Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism
	Overview
	Plagiarism: Issue and Facts
	Referencing Styles
	Name-Date (Harvard) Style of Referencing
	Abbreviations in References
	Reference Foreign Author Names
	Avoiding Plagiarism as an Author
	Detecting Potential Plagiarism
	Critical Analysis
	Referencing Electronic Sources
	The Future of Plagiarism
	Review Questions
	Further Reading
12: Database and Research Metrics
	Overview
	Bibliometrics
	Bibliometrics Milestones Year by Year
	Calculating Journal Impact Factor
	Immediacy Index
	Cited Half-Life, Eigenfactor, and Article Influence Score
	SCImago Journal Rankings
	Source Normalized Impact Per Paper
	H-Index
	H5-Index and H5-Median
	Fuzzy Metrics: Non-citation-Based Bibliometrics
	The Categories of Bibliometrics Tools
	Web of Science
	Journal Citation Reports
	Scopus
	Google Scholar Citations, Profiles, and Rankings
	Additional Bibliometric Tools
	Altmetrics
	Research Gate (RG Scores)
	Mendeley
	The Leiden Manifesto
	How to Interpret Research Metrics
	Altmetrics and Open Access
	Indian Citation Index
	Review Questions
	Further Reading
References
Index