{"id":1094,"date":"2015-09-11T12:02:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T12:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/do-journals-instructions-for-authors-pay-enough-attention-to-ethical-issues\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T13:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:21:10","slug":"do-journals-instructions-for-authors-pay-enough-attention-to-ethical-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/do-journals-instructions-for-authors-pay-enough-attention-to-ethical-issues","title":{"rendered":"Do journals&#8217; instructions for authors pay enough attention to ethical issues?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span dir=\"ltr\">This post summarizes the findings of an article published in the July issue of <em>Learned Publishing<\/em>:\u00a0<\/span><strong>Yang, WU; Zou, Qiang,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/alpsp\/lp\/2015\/00000028\/00000003\/art00007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The ethical issues in instructions for authors of Chinese biomedical journals<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Learned Publishing<\/em>, Volume 28, Number 3<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" id=\"imcontent\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">With the rise in instances of misconduct in the academic publishing industry, everyone is aware that authors, journals, and editors have a joint responsibility to ensure ethical publication. Journals should provide clear instructions to authors so that authors are sure about what they should do and what they should not. \u00a0Authors should also understand and follow ethical publication guidelines. Journal editors should ensure compliance on all the ethical issues. To ensure good publication practices, journals\u2019 instructions for authors play a very important role; however, sadly, author instructions are often ignored by journals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">I came across a recent study published in the July issue of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alpsp.org\/Ebusiness\/ResearchPublications\/LearnedPublishing\/AboutJournal.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learned Publishing<\/a> <\/em>that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/alpsp\/lp\/2015\/00000028\/00000003\/art00007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveys the instructions for authors provided in Chinese Biomedical journals<\/a>. Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/behind-the-science-quick-facts-about-scientific-publishing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China ranks second<\/a> globally in terms of research output. Editors of international journals have been overwhelmed by the increasing flow of submissions from China.\u00a0 However, at the same time, there have been a lot of discussions about problems in manuscripts written by Chinese authors. What is more, it has been found that Chinese authors, intentionally or unintentionally, do not follow ethical guidelines properly; for example, plagiarism is a common problem in manuscripts written by Chinese authors.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"highlight\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Many researchers publish their papers in regional journals before they start writing manuscripts in English for publication in international journals. \u00a0As a result, their idea of publication ethics is, to a large extent, based on the ethical requirements of these regional journals. Therefore, it would be interesting to examine the instructions for authors provided by Chinese biomedical journals and see if they meet international standards. Here is a summary of the study.<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/alpsp\/lp\/2015\/00000028\/00000003\/art00007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The ethical issues in instructions for authors of Chinese biomedical journals<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>Sample: 229 biomedical journals<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">The sample does not include Chinese medicine journals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">It includes all Chinese language journals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">It includes all journals indexed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.pku.edu.cn\/portal\/bggk\/dtjj\/qikanyaomu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Guide to the Core Journals of China<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">It includes 67 journals published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaph.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese Medical Association Publishing House<\/a> (CMAPH).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>Data collection<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">All data have been manually collected.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">For 26 journals, data have been collected from the journal website.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">For 137 journals, data have been collected from the print edition (2014).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">For 66 journals, data have been collected from older print copies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>14 ethical issues have been checked in the study<\/strong> (based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icmje.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICMJE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wame.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WAME<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/publicationethics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COPE<\/a> recommendations)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Authorship<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Duplicate submission<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Privacy and confidentiality<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Integrity of data<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Protection of human subjects in research<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Redundant publication<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Rules for peer review<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Retractions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Conflicts of interest statements<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Plagiarism<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Secondary publication in multiple languages<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Registration of clinical trials<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Protection of animals in research<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Respect for authors\u2019 confidentiality<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>Study limitations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Other ethical issues like image manipulation, commercial funding, and ghostwriting have not been assessed in this study.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Data has been collected from the author instructions section only, but journals may have provided guidelines in other sections; these have not been considered in the study.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Only Chinese journals have been studied. Chinese publishers also publish many English journals, but these have not been included in this study.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>Results<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">The top 3 ethical issues mentioned are authorship (85.6%), duplicate submission (83%), and privacy and confidentiality (62.4%).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">The least mentioned areas are registration of clinical trials (11.3%), protection of animals in research (10%), and respect for author confidentiality (9.6%).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">CMAPH and non-CMAPH journals show significant difference. Authorship has been mentioned equal number of times by both groups, while protection of animals in research has been rarely mentioned by both.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Additional findings<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Authorship: 84 of 196 journals have authorship guidelines that refer to ICMJE guidelines (49 are CMAPH journals).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Clinical trial registration is requested by 26 journals only, and 23 of them require the CONSORT statement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Only one journal requires description of methods used for locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesizing data in line with the EQUATOR Network.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">The other 12 ethical issues are mentioned in one or two lines without any further explanation or guidance.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">30% of the journals do not update instructions for authors regularly. There is one journal in which the author instructions have been the same for the last 10 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">More than 50% of the journals discuss authorship, duplicate submission, privacy and confidentiality, and integrity of data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">None of the journals updated the author instructions based on the latest authorship guidelines provided by the ICMJE (2013).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Though clinical registration should be done before the first patient enrollment, as suggested by the ICMJE more than 10 years ago, merely 11.3% of the journals include this point in the author instructions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">CMAPH journals are standing out better in the analysis, but still do not pay enough attention to publication ethics.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">The result shows that Chinese biomedical journals do not pay enough attention to publication ethics. Although international guidelines are available, only some of them adopt these guidelines in their author instructions. What\u2019s more, many issues are addressed very briefly, and authors have no clear idea about how to follow these guidelines. This not only makes Chinese authors pay less attention to publication ethics, but also makes it difficult for them to understand what exactly is expected of authors at the global level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">While it is true that authors are not following good publication practices, we also need to examine if journals\/publishers provide clear guidelines and update them regularly. This is required to ensure that authors are aware and clear about the expectations regarding publication ethics and best practices. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post summarizes the findings of an article published in the July issue of Learned Publishing:\u00a0Yang, WU; Zou, Qiang,\u00a0The ethical issues in instructions for authors of Chinese biomedical journals,\u00a0Learned Publishing, Volume 28, Number 3.\u00a0 With the rise in instances of misconduct in the academic publishing industry, everyone is aware that authors, journals, and editors have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[2640,99,1856],"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-trends","tag-author-guidelines","tag-ethical-guidelines","tag-journal-instructions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do journals&#039; instructions for authors pay enough attention to ethical issues? | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Authors, journals, and editors have a joint responsibility to ensure ethical publication. 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