Abstract
The increased activity in scientific publishing and its globalization have led to a complex problem related to the ethics of the publishing process. At the same time, the pressure on journal publishers, due to academic promotion processes and the international background of authors, requires agreement on how to act against the recurrent cases of ethical misconduct that occur in practice. The aim of this study was to discover the opinion of Spanish journal publishers in the fields of Communication, Education and Psychology regarding 16 types of improper conduct. Of the 203 publishers surveyed, 39.9% answered the online survey. The quantitative data obtained provide an understanding of the publishers’ level of concern regarding ethical aspects of scientific publication: the frequency of misconduct, the ease of identifying it, its perceived gravity and possible future trends.
Highlights
Resumen: El incremento de actividad en la publicación científica y su globalización están ocasionando una problemática relacionada con la ética de los procesos editoriales
Ethics and Spanish journals of communication, education, and psychology: the publishers’ perception Abstract: The increased activity in scientific publishing and its globalization have led to a complex problem related to the ethics of the publishing process
The aim of this study was to discover the opinion of Spanish journal publishers in the fields of Communication, Education and Psychology regarding 16 types of improper conduct
Summary
El estudio de los principios éticos seguidos por editores de revistas científicas experimenta un interés creciente como demuestra la proliferación de publicaciones muy recientes aunque parece recibir mayor atención en el contexto de las revistas de Ciencias Biomédicas (Angelski y otros, 2012; Bosch y otros, 2012; Shewan y Coats, 2012) que de Ciencias Sociales (en adelante, CC.SS.) (Resnik y otros, 2010; Jordan y Hill, 2012). Es precisamente en este contexto donde las revistas científicas de prestigio han de preocuparse por la ética en las publicaciones científicas porque ésta protege la integridad de las revistas serias (Resnik y otros, 2010) y confiere fiabilidad y calidad a los artículos publicados en ellas. La revisión de la literatura nos ha permitido identificar 16 casos de mala praxis (Wager y otros, 2009) que clasificamos según afectan a autores, editores y evaluadores (Baiget, 2010)
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