Journal of Korean Medical Library Association
The Korean Medical Library Association
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연구논문 작성을 위한 연구출판윤리

곽재현1,*
Jae Hyun Kwak1,*
1연세대학교 의학도서관
1Yonsei University Medical Library, Seoul, Korea
*Corresponding author:Jae Hyun Kwak, Yonsei University Medical Library, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Korea, Tel: 82-2-2228-2917, Fax: 82-2-365-3093, E-mail: jhnkwak@yuhs.ac

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Received: Oct 15, 2017; Revised: Nov 20, 2017; Accepted: Dec 16, 2017

Published Online: Dec 30, 2017

Abstract

Research ethics has been underlined as environments of research became result-oriented. It has various regulations and guidelines today, and researchers have to aware of each cases of them. Research integrity is the key principles to guarantee the transparency and truthfulness of the scientific content. Based on research integrity, ethics includes regulations and guidelines which regulate both research misconduct and questionable research practices. Most important and critical misconduct is fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism. It seriously damage the research integrity. Researchers should be readied to provide their raw data to prove there was no fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism. A proper research note is vital in the research documents. Plagiarism should be avoided by citing the references properly. In medical journals, authors should avoid verbatim. Duplicated publication is a reuse of data, texts or scientific contents from author's previous publications. Every new publications should carry their own original content. But there are some exceptions so called secondary publication. There is 4 conditions to become an author defined by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Authors should transparently declare all conflicts of interest to make readers figure out possible biases. All researches that use human subjects should have permissions by Institutional Review. All clinical trials should be registered their detailed protocols to a registry to avoid selective reporting and bias. Researchers should aware the codes of conduct. Research support departments like medical libraries have to ready to cope with the complex states of research publication ethics cases.

Keywords: Attitude of health personnel; Biomedical research; Ethics; research; Scientific misconduct