Category: Research integrity
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Excerpt from the P.I.E. Guidelines for Reviewers – Post review
Reviewers should continue to keep details of the manuscript and its review confidential. If the reviewer is contacted by a journal regarding details of the review, they should respond immediately and submit any information requested. Whereupon a reviewer discovers additional relevant matter post-review that may affect their recommendations, the journal should be contacted immediately. If […]
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Excerpt from the P.I.E. Guidelines for Reviewers – Expectations
1 A manuscript which a reviewer has previously assessed for another publication may have changed between the two submissions. It is imperative a fresh assessment is conducted to reflect different criteria for evaluation and acceptance of another journal. 2 Suggestions for the instigation of an alternative reviewer must not be influenced by personal considerations or […]
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Excerpt from the P.I.E. Guidelines for Reviewers – Recognition of status
1 Editors and journals must be supplied with comment that is based on the peer reviewer’s professional area of expertise and represents an accurate reflection of this. 2 If a reviewer gives a false impersonation of another person or suggests the work has been conducted by another person, this will be considered serious misconduct. 3 […]
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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
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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 […]
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Stem cell breakthrough for Parkinson’s disease
Swedish scientists from Lund University have found that stem cell treatment can be used to heal the damage in the brain caused by Parkinson’s disease. The disease, which affects body control and movement, is caused by loss of nerve cells which control the chemical dopamine – essential for these cognitive functions. Parkinson’s UK have come […]
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Facebook’s psychological study: an ethical dilemma
In January 2012 the social media giant Facebook undertook what can only be called a research experiment on 700,000 of its users. The company decided to strategically skew what these users could see when they logged into their personal profiles. Half of these individuals were confronted by content which had been proven to have happy […]