Journal of Emergency Practice and Trauma

A road to ethics: a new experience of retraction

Document Type : Letter to Editor

Authors

Hafez Mohammadhassanzadeh 1
Amin Beigzadeh 2
Mehrdad Nazarieh 3

1 Cardiovascular Research Centre, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

2 Research Centre for Health Services Management, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences,kerman,Iran

3 Department of English Language, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Kerman Institute of Higher Education, Kerman, Iran

https://doi.org/10.15171/jept.2015.04
Abstract
Every journal finds its fundamentals in the course of time by the validity and originality of its published literature. This is validated if authors keep diligence and honesty when they conduct their research and submit their work in a journal. But at times what comes out of a scientific research is not always valid and reliable because there has not been an appropriate control on the work or researchers did not thoroughly conduct and report the results. Thus, it is very important that journals keep an increasingly close eye for the detection of scientific misconduct.
 

Keywords

Ethics
Retraction
Scientific journals
Misconduct
Subjects
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  • Receive Date 17 April 2015
  • Revise Date 21 April 2015
  • Accept Date 06 June 2015

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