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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
