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Worldwide Initiatives for Research and Publication Ethics

There are organizations worldwide which have set standards for publication ethics, research
assessment, research metrics, and integrity of research. The prominent ones are:

• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), UK. 19
• San Francisco declaration on research assessment (DORA).
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• Leiden manifesto for research metrics.
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• The metric tide.
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• The Hong Kong principles for assessing researchers: Fostering research integrity.
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• World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). 24

Conclusion

Predatory journals exist solely for profit without any commitment to publication ethics or quality
of research. They not only damage the reputation of individual researchers or institutions, but more
dangerously, they contaminate scientific and other disciplines. Thus, the authenticity and credibility
of research is at stake. The number of predatory publications with changing modalities is on the rise,
which makes it very difficult to recognize them. The paper mills, producing extremely convincing
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pseudoscientific texts, are proving a new challenge. This approach also makes it possible to have
predatory preprint servers, which renders the predatory publishing scene more serious (Moore, 2020).

Therefore, it is important that every individual researcher takes serious cognizance of all the pitfalls of
publishing in predatory journals and remains worthy of the ethical ethos that is the foundation of true
scientific and academic endeavour.

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