Publication race: A scientific misbehavior

Scientific journals have a role to further progress science by providing a platform to communicate new findings and the results of scientific research. Publication of articles is a kind of documentation and journals are one of the most important tools for documentation. Now a day, the electronicpublication has a major role in the field of science contributing to accessibility. Like other fields, even publication process has a code of conduct which is called as publication ethics. This is a self‑regulatory mechanism insisting on integrity on the part of authors, peer reviewers, and publishers to establishhigher standards of editorial processing for the research. Violation of publication ethics is a global problem, and it is due to the scientific misbehavior.

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Authorship criteria ، publication ethics ، violation