Category: Publication ethics
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Excerpt from the P.I.E. Guidelines for Reviewers – Outside influence
1 Any information obtained during the assessment may not be used for the reviewer’s advantage. This rule applies to giving information to another person or organisation in written, visual or audio format. 2 A reviewer is not permitted to use information obtained during review in order to discredit or disadvantage another person. Nor must the […]
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Excerpt from the P.I.E. Guidelines for Reviewers – Conflicts of interest
1 A conflict of interest may not preclude the peer reviewer from studied assessment. In the case of any potential or suspected competing interest, a full and honest disclosure of the details must be submitted and declared to the publisher before the review can be conducted. 2 A conflict may be of personal, financial, intellectual, […]
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Excerpt from the P.I.E. Guidelines for Reviewers – Confidentiality
1 Details of the review, or of the manuscript under review, should not be revealed to third parties unless with prior agreement. 2 The privacy of the author must be respected and if the reviewer wishes to seek an opinion from another peer professional, permission from the editor should be sought. Whereby it is the […]
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Excerpt from the P.I.E. Guidelines for Reviewers – Considerations for review flower service woodbridge
1 The reviewer should define the flower bouquet and the problem or question which the canada flower delivery woodbridge and the author raises in the flower woodbridge and the article and its relative significance. 2 If there are no statements or thesis, the flower delivery ontario canada and the reviewer should define if the flower […]
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Excerpt from the P.I.E. Guidelines for Reviewers – Principles of fair practice
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Excerpt from the General P.I.E. Guidelines – Authors, editors and peer-reviewers
1. Editors are required to guide the staff serving under them in the methodology for best practice. They should also advise the individual reviewers too, by constantly updating them about the desired level of expectation of their work and ethics. 2. Unless the publication has an open review system, the identity of the reviewers must […]
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Excerpt from the General P.I.E. Guidelines – Editors and authors
1. As direct managers of the editorial team, editors must guarantee quality of the materials accepted for publishing is informative in nature. 2. They should evaluate the texts with emphasis on originality, transparency and relevance and not by personal means. 3. Objectivity is one of the required qualities of an editor. Therefore, if peer-reviews were […]
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Excerpt from the General P.I.E. Guidelines – Duty to follow best practice
1. Publishers and editorial board members who support the PIE membership and the code of conduct should adhere to the guidelines implemented in the document. 2. Members of the editorial staff should follow the recommendations in an equally exemplary fashion, with full support. 3. Individuals working in the publishing industry should be informed about the […]
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Excerpt from the General P.I.E. Guidelines 5
Publishers and editors are required to respect personal privacy of individuals. Personal information should only be sought when it is in the public’s interest to do so and report on a matter. Whilst undertaking research for their materials, editors and authors should not intrude upon the privacy of individuals whether or not they are public […]
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Integrity in US media
Carl Sagan once said “The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media”, even going on to say it presented: “a kind of celebration of ignorance”. The problem is that much of what is presented in the mainstream US media today is short, bright […]