Syllabus of RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS (RPE)

Syllabus of

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS (RPE)

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS (RPE)

About the Course:

Overview: This course has 6 modules mainly focusing on basics of philosophy of science and ethics,  research integrity, publication ethics. Hands on sessions are designed to identify research misconduct and predatory publications. Indexing and citation databases, open access publications, research and p  metrics and plagiarism tools introduced in the course.

THEORY

RPE 01: PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS (3 HRS)

1. Introduction to philosophy: definition, nature and scoope, concept, branches

2. Ethics: definitino, moral philosophy, nature of moral judgements and reations.

RPE 02: SCIENTIFIC CONDUCT (5 HRS)

1. Ethics with respcet to science and research

2. Intellectual honest and research integrity

3. Scientific misconducts: falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism.

4. Redundant publications: duplicate and overlapping publications, salami slicing

5. Selective reporting and misrepresentation of data.

RPE 03: PUBLICATION ETHICS (7 HRS)

1. Publication ethics: definition, introduction and importance

2. Best practices/standards setting initiatives and guidelines: COPE, WAME, etc.

3. Conflicts of interest

4. Publication misconduct: definition, concept, problems that lead to unethical behavior and vice verse, types

5. Violation of publication ethics, authorship and contributor ship

6. Identification of publication misconduct, complaints and appeals

7. Predatory publishers and journals

PRACTICE

RPE 04: OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING (4 HRS)

1. Open access publications and initiatives

2. SHERPA/RoMEO online resourse to check publisher copyright and self-archiving policies.

3. Software tool to identify predatory publications developed by SPPU

4. Journal finder/ journal suggestion tools viz. JANE, Elsevier Journal Finder, Springer Journal Suggester, etc.

RPE 05: PUBLICATION MISCONDUCT (4 HRS)

A. Group Discussions (2 hrs)

1. Subject specific ethical issues, FFP, authorship

2. Conflicts of interest

3. Complaints and appeals: examples and fraud from India and abroad

B. Software tools (2 hrs)

Use of plagiarism software like Turnitin, Urkund and other open source software tools.

RPE 06: DATABASES AND RESEARCH METRICS (7 HRS)

A Databases (4 hrs)

1. Indexing detabeses

2. Citation detabases: Web of Science, Scopus, etc.

B. 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