Why is there a need for Research and Publication Ethics to be taught at Undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD levels?
The question concerns the importance of teaching research and publication ethics at different educational levels. Integrating research and publication ethics into education fosters responsible, trustworthy research practices and contributes to the overall advancement of knowledge. You are most welcome to share any specific areas you’d like to explore further and your thoughts about them.
Engineering
Professor Robert D. Martin
In the absence special instruction it may be difficult to decide where the boundary lies between ethical and non-ethical conduct. Plagiarism is a good example, as students or investigators may naively cite an over-long passage from a paper, or re-use an image that is subject to copyright restriction. The advent of AI, of course, has opened up entirely new realms where copyright is an issue.
Boffer Bings
Academic focus on "winning" (GPA at undergraduate level, publication metrics, grant funding, promotion and prizes later) apparently overrides ethical concerns often enough to have suggested the present question. It is unclear that ethical motivation can be taught at university level. That aspect of personality develops much earlier. It is possible in classrooms and laboratories to introduce the ethical standards typical of particular activities, and discuss why and where that "typical" is changing (e.g., AI as coauthor). Universities are notoriously poor at self-policing, unless a case is so egregious that the PR risk of overlooking an infraction exceeds the PR risk of prosecuting it.
Sunday Daramola
Learning about research and publication ethics enhances the early and required understanding of the essential ethical standards, policies, and issues and improve ethical judgment and decision making.
Rooh Ali
Teaching research and publication ethics at all educational levels is super important. Teaching research and publication ethics at undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD levels is crucial to instill responsible and trustworthy research practices. It ensures that students and researchers understand the importance of integrity and credibility in their work. By incorporating this education early on, we can prevent misconduct, promote ethical practices, and ensure that research findings are reliable and trustworthy. This ultimately contributes to the responsible advancement of knowledge in any field.
Monika Saraswat
Research and Publication Ethics education is essential at all academic levels to instill a strong foundation of ethical principles, prevent academic misconduct, and ensure the credibility and reliability of research outputs. This training also prepares students to navigate ethical dilemmas they may encounter in their professional careers.
Khazew
Research publication ethics is an important subject that should be taught at the graduate, postgraduate, and PhD levels. For reasons the researchers must know ethics of research to know how collection Information from the samples as population, and know ethical of College or University if its approval to Conducting the research
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Kamit
Research publication ethics is an important subject that should be taught at the graduate, postgraduate, and PhD levels. Dissertations, which are compulsory at these levels, often result in research articles. Therefore, it is essential for students to learn about research publication ethics.
Prof. Sanjay Mishra