1. Reflecting on Ethical Questions and Peer Reviewing.
- Author
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Hughes, Mark
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PROFESSIONAL peer review , *PUBLISHING , *AUTHORSHIP , *WASTE recycling , *RESEARCH ethics , *SERIAL publications , *SOCIAL work research , *PERIODICAL articles , *IMPACT factor (Citation analysis) , *STANDARDS - Abstract
The author reflects on some of ethical issues that the journal has experienced in 2014 as well as its policy in relation to blind peer reviewing. Topics discussed include the concept of and the problems arising form salami slicing, the practice of extracting several publications from a single study, the concept of text recycling, the use of material published in one paper in a different paper, and the pros and cons of single- and double-blind peer reviewing.
- Published
- 2014
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