Research and Publication Ethics (RPE) (Compulsory)

Paper Code: 
PHE 145
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
50.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • To protect human participants.
  • To conduct research in a way that serves interest of individuals, groups and/or societies as a whole.
  • To examine specific research activities and project for their ethical soundness such as the management of risk, protection of confidentiality and the process of informed consent.

 

 

4.00
Unit I: 
Philosophy and Ethics

1. Introduction to philosophy: definition; nature & scope; concept; branches.

2. Ethics: definition; moral philosophy; nature of moral judgments & reactions.

 

 

6.00
Unit II: 
Scientific Conduct

1. Ethics with respect to science & research, group discussion on subject specific ethical issues.

2.  Intellectual honesty & research integrity.

3. Scientific misconducts: falsification, fabrication, & plagiarism (FPP), group discussion on subject

    specific FPP issues.

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

5. Selective reporting & misrepresentation of data.

 

6.00
Unit III: 
Publication Ethics

1. Publication ethics: definition, introduction & importance.

2. Best practices/standard setting initiative & guidelines: COPE, WAME etc.

3. Conflicts of interest, group discussions on conflicts of interest.

4. Publication misconducts: definition, concept, problems that lead to unethical behavior & vice versa,

    types.

5. Violation of publication ethics, authorship & contributor-ship, group discussion on subject specific

    authorship issues.

6. Identification of publication misconduct, complaints & appeals, group discussion on examples and

    fraud from India & abroad.

7. Predatory Publishers & journals.

 

7.00
Unit IV: 
Open Access Publishing

1. Open access publications & initiatives SHERPA/RoMEO online resource to check publisher copyright &

    self-archiving policies.

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

     etc.

3. Software tools developed by SPPU to identify predatory publications.

4. Software tools: use of plagiarism software like Turnitin, Urkund, and other open source software tools.

 

 

6.00
Unit V: 
Databases & Research Metrics Databases

1. Indexing databases.

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

Research Metrics                                                                                                                       03 Hrs

 

1. Impact Factor of journal as per Journal Citation Report, SNIP, SJR, IPP, and Cite Score.

2. Metrics: h-index, g index, i10 index, altmetrics.

 

Academic Year: 
2023-24
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