The ethics of publishing in medical journals

David Isaacs; Chris Elliot; Henry Kilham; Anne Preisz

doi:10.1016/j.prrv.2019.04.005

The ethics of publishing in medical journals

Paediatr Respir Rev. 2021 Sep:39:41-47. doi: 10.1016/j.prrv.2019.04.005. Epub 2019 May 11.

Authors

David Isaacs¹, Chris Elliot², Henry Kilham², Anne Preisz²

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Ethics Service, Sydney Children's Hospital Network, Children's Hospital at Westmead and Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, Australia; Sydney Health Ethics, 92/94 Parramatta Rd, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia. Electronic address: davidisaacs@health.nsw.gov.au.
² Clinical Ethics Service, Sydney Children's Hospital Network, Children's Hospital at Westmead and Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, Australia; Sydney Health Ethics, 92/94 Parramatta Rd, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia.

PMID: 31678037
DOI: 10.1016/j.prrv.2019.04.005

Abstract

Ethics has been defined as the way we ought to behave. Medical publishing essentially exists to broadcast current and new medical knowledge to aid in the practice of medicine. In this review article we consider many of the aspects of medical publishing with regard to 'what we ought to do' and, equally, 'what we ought not to do' from the perspective of various ethical frameworks. Although ethics is not the law or a set of rules, nor a code of conduct, an ethical lens can be useful when developing good general guidelines for medical publishing.

Keywords: Equality; Gender; Peer review; Plagiarism.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Humans
Periodicals as Topic*
Publishing