Philosophy and Ethics :
● Introduction to philosophy : definition, nature and scope, concept, branches;
● Ethics: definition, moral philosophy, nature of moral judgements and reactions
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Scientific Conduct :
● Ethics with respect to scientific research, Intellectual honesty and research integrity,
● Scientific Misconduct: Falsification, fabrication and plagiarism.
● Redundant Publications: Duplicate and overlapping publications, Salami Slicing. Selective reporting and misrepresentation of data.
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Publication Ethics :
· Publication Ethics: Definition, introduction and importance.
· Best Practices/Standard Setting Initiatives and guidelines: COPE, WAME etc. Conflicts of interests.
· Publication Misconduct: Definition, concept, problems that lead to unethical behavior and vice versa, types. Violation of publication ethics, authorship and contributorship. Identification of publication misconduct, complaints and appeals. Predatory publishers and journals.
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Open access publications and initiatives :
· SHERPA/RoMEO online resource to check publisher copyright and self-archiving policies.
· Software tool to identify predatory publications developed by SPPU.
· Journal finder / Journal suggestion tools viz. JANE, Elsevier Journal Finder, Springer Journal Suggester etc.
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Publication Misconduct :
A. Group Discussions: Subject specific ethical issues, FFP, authorship. Conflicts of Interests.
Complaints and Appeals: Examples of fraud from India and Abroad.
B. Software Tools: Use of plagiarism softwares like Turnitin, Urkund, DrillBit and other open sources of Software tools
Databases and Research Metrics :
A. Databases: Indexing Databases.
Citation databases: Web of Science, Scopus etc.
B. Research Metrics: Impact factor of journal as per Journal Citation Report, SNIP, SJR, IPP, Cite Score.
C. Metrics: h-index, g-index, i10 index, altmetrics.
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