Open AccessScientific misconducts and authorship conflicts: Indian perspective
Author(s) -
Mohanchandra Mandal,
Dipanjan Bagchi,
Sekhar Ranjan Basu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.160918
Subject(s) - publish or perish , scientific misconduct , perspective (graphical) , publication , order (exchange) , misconduct , narrative , engineering ethics , political science , publishing , computer science , law , medicine , alternative medicine , literature , engineering , artificial intelligence , art , finance , pathology , economics
This article is a narrative review about how appropriate authorship can be achieved, a brief mention about various scientific misconducts, the reason and consequences of such misconducts and finally, the policies to be adopted by the aspiring authors to avert these problems. The literature search was performed in the Google and PubMed using 'scientific misconduct', 'honorary/ghost authorship', 'publish-or-perish', 'plagiarism' and other related key words and phrases. More than 300 free full-text articles published from 1990 to 2015 were retrieved and studied. Many consensus views have been presented regarding what constitutes authorship, the authorship order and different scientific misconducts. The conflicts about authorship issues related to publication of dissertation, the area of the grey zone have been discussed. Suggestions from different authorities about improving the existing inappropriate authorship issues have been included.