Wiedermann CJ. Ethical publishing in intensive care medicine: A narrative review. World J Crit Care Med 2016; 5(3): 171-179 [PMID: 27652208 DOI: 10.5492/wjccm.v5.i3.171]
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Christian J Wiedermann, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Central Hospital of Bolzano, Lorenz-Böhler-Street 5, 39100 Bolzano, Italy. christian.wiedermann@sabes.it
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Medical Ethics
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Review
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World J Crit Care Med. Aug 4, 2016; 5(3): 171-179 Published online Aug 4, 2016. doi: 10.5492/wjccm.v5.i3.171
Ethical publishing in intensive care medicine: A narrative review
Christian J Wiedermann
Christian J Wiedermann, Department of Internal Medicine, Central Hospital of Bolzano, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
Author contributions: Wiedermann CJ is the sole author of this manuscript and responsible for conception and design, data collection, analysis and interpretation, and writing of the review.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The author declares no conflict of interest for this article.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Christian J Wiedermann, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Central Hospital of Bolzano, Lorenz-Böhler-Street 5, 39100 Bolzano, Italy. christian.wiedermann@sabes.it
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Received: February 9, 2016 Peer-review started: February 14, 2016 First decision: May 19, 2016 Revised: July 4, 2016 Accepted: July 14, 2016 Article in press: July 18, 2016 Published online: August 4, 2016
Core Tip
Core tip: Ethical standards in the context of scientific publications are increasingly gaining attention. Recommendations to authors, editors and publishers of journals and research institutions were formulated by The Committee on Publication Ethics with regard to issues of authorship, double publications, plagiarism, and conflicts of interest, with special attention being paid to unethical research behavior and data falsification. As scientific misconduct with data falsification damage patients and society, it is important to ensure that only studies are published that have been carried out with highest integrity according to predefined criteria and that also the peer review process has to be conducted in accordance with the highest possible scientific standards.
