Yesterday's sessions at the AAAS meeting included a discussion of the ethics of scientific publishing. The talks started out slowly, largely because they consisted of statements of the obvious in ...

Research integrity is a red-hot topic right now in the scientific community, and for good reason. Scientific misconduct has the potential to cause harm, even if unintentional. And unfortunately it’s ...

Amsterdam, March 04, 2008 – Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today the launch ...

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has partnered with TaskAdept, a leader in improving publication ethics by driving forward standards of ethics and data statements with a free online ethics statement generation ...

What keeps journal editors up at night? Inclusion issues, along with plagiarism and other kinds of fraud, according to a new report from the Committee on Publication Ethics. The report's authors first ...

In part 1 and part 2 of this post, I described how I found myself inadvertently writing a recovery memoir—a type of book that my own research had shown is often harmful to people with an eating ...

Researchers should be free to pursue lines of inquiry and the communication of knowledge and ideas without fear of repression or censorship. At the same time, they have the ethical obligation to ...

Hate speech is on the rise. In Canada alone, it increased by a staggering 600 per cent between 2015 and 2016 as part of what some have called “the Trump effect.” Academia is not immune to this trend.