7.6.1 Publication Ethics

Publication ethics governs the conduct expected of authors, reviewers, and editors throughout the scholarly publishing process, and is formalised by...

Publication ethics governs the conduct expected of authors, reviewers, and editors throughout the scholarly publishing process, and is formalised by organisations such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), whose guidelines are followed by the great majority of reputable pharmacology journals. Core expectations include accurate and complete reporting of methods and results (without selective omission of unfavourable data), appropriate authorship attribution (limited to individuals who made a substantive intellectual contribution to the work, with all such contributors included and no 'gift' or 'ghost' authorship), full disclosure of any financial or other conflicts of interest, and, where applicable, disclosure of the specific IAEC and institutional ethics approvals under which the work was conducted, as detailed in the checklist below.