Ethics
Publication Ethics Checklist
Approval and Consent
- Do you have approval of the relevant Regulatory Authorities, Institutional Review Board and Ethics Committee?
- Have you registered your clinical trial?
- Have you documented Informed Consent?
Data Accuracy Falsification Fabrication
- Is there manipulation of material, equipment, process or data?
- Have you double-checked data for accuracy?
- Is there any lurking fake data?
Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism
- Have you used your own prior work or copied others’ work?
- If so, have you cited these correctly?
- Do you have written permission for reproduced material, figures or tables?
Submission Fraud
- Is there simultaneous submission to two journals?
- Have you published the entire work or part of it (salami-slicing) already?
- Have you excessively cited your own publications?
Ethics of Authorship
- Have you included all the authors in a specific pre-agreed order?
- Do you have an agreement with co-authors?
- Are the co-authors aware of the contents of the publication?
- Have they had access to, and hold themselves responsible for the data and its interpretation
- Is there is any Ghost Author or a “Guest Author”?
Conflict of Interest
Have you declared relevant interests and relationships that could be seen as influencing your findings (whether financial or scientific)?