Any process that has an element of subjectivity to it will be open to claims of bias. From Olympic figure skating judges to academic journal editors, no matter how profound the expertise, they are human and therefore capable of being…

Simultaneous submissions and duplicate publications are considered unethical in scientific disciplines. With some exceptions (explained below), most journals do not accept a manuscript unless it is an original work and the work is not under…

Advanced technologies have put the control of scientific images in the hands of researchers and authors. For example, the blots and gels that accompany and represent data in an article, may be manipulated in a variety of ways. However,…

There are multiple cases of article retractions due to duplicated or manipulated article images which have occurred recently in Life Sciences. These described cases involved researchers from China and Malaysia. One case concerned a research…

Traditionally, publishing a research study in life sciences involves a researcher to select a journal based on the field and outreach of the study and then submit their manuscript to that journal. However, prior, to submission, the…