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The book aims to converge the perspectives of authors, editors, and reviewers to discuss modern scientific publishing practice and emerging concerns in the contemporary world. Authors, editors, and reviewers form a triage in a publishing ecosystem which is witnessing a huge pressure due to changing evaluation criteria for career progression and grant funding. The major perspective of this book is to put forth the present-day emerging ills of modern publishing system and sensitize the research fraternity - be it young researchers or established scientists towards practicing good science and preserving spirit of scientific discoveries.
The edited book consists of three parts viz, Part I "Authors, Authorship, and Scholarly Dissemination" features ten chapters devoted to describe authorship issues and good publication practice, plagiarism concerns, preprints, open access models, conflicting interests, rise of review papers, writing book reviews, and assessing faculty beyond metrics. Part II "Editors, Editorial Desks, and Issues of Scientific Misconduct" features eight chapters devoted to discuss on issues of editorial misconduct, desk rejections, paper mills, letters to editors, image duplication, emerging ChatGPT in writing/reviewing spaces, citation cartels, and retractions. Finally, Part III "Reviewers and Developing Evaluator's Eye" features five chapters devoted to discuss peer review as an idea creating model, paying peer reviewers, training reviewers, peer review manipulations, and peer review in age of AI . All chapters in the book are written by expert contributors of the field that provides a systematic approach of understanding various challenges, opportunities, and ethical considerations of scientific publishing ecosystem. Most of the chapters have featured recent cases of scientific misconduct as examples to reflect scale of the problem.
This book will serve as a reference to research practitioners in understanding assigning authorship on papers, modern-day publishing collaboration, role of editors to serve journals in a holistic manner and ensuring fair peer review mechanisms.
Contents
Part I. Authors, Authorship, and Scholarly Dissemination.- Chapter 1. Bylines and Beyond: Unpacking Authorship in Research Publications.- Chapter 2. Good Publication Practice and Questions of Authorship.- Chapter 3. Honorary Authorship and the Ethics of Scientific Publishing.- Chapter 4. Plagiarism: Emerging Challenges and Potential Solutions.- Chapter 5. Democratizing Knowledge or Closing Gates? A Critical Examination of Article Processing Charges.- Chapter 6. Assessing Faculty for Universities - Beyond Publishing Metrics.- Chapter 7. Expounding Conflicts of Interest.- Chapter 8. Curious Case of Book Reviews.- Chapter 9. The Shifting Sands of Medical-Scientific Publishing: The Rise of Reviews.- Chapter 10. Preprints as a Modern Publishing Model to Accelerate Scientific Dissemination.- Part II. Editors, Editorial Desks, and Issues of Scientific Misconduct.- Chapter 11. Desk Rejections: Why, How and What Next?.- Chapter 12. The Art of Writing a "Letter to Editor".- Chapter 13. Editorial Misconducts: Boosting Citation and Impact Factor.- Chapter 14. Dealing with Paper Mills, Tortured Phrases and Data Fabrication and Falsification in Scientific Papers.- Chapter 15. Re-addressing the Current Challenges of Image Duplication in Scientific Publications.- Chapter 16. Invasion of ChatGPT and LLMs in the Review and Writing Space: A Revolution or Radical.- Chapter 17. Deception through Manipulated Citations and References as a Growing Problem in Scientific Publishing.- Chapter 18. Retractions as Bitter Pill Corrective Measure to Eliminate Flawed Science.- Part III. Reviewers and Developing Evaluator's Eye.- Chapter 19. Peer Review as a Potential Idea Creation.- Chapter 20. Prospects and Importance of Training Needs in Peer Review Models.- Chapter 21. Peer Review Rings: Manipulated Peer Reviews and Scams.- Chapter 22. Paying for Peer Review: Should or Should Not?.- Chapter 23. Scientific Peer Review in an Era of Artificial Intelligence.- Final Takeaways.
