Questions tagged [ethics]
On making a decision based on morals or common ethical codes instead of etiquette, rules, institutional or government policy, or technical or procedural reasons.
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Advisor wants to kick me out unfairly of the program. Do I leave and take my work with me before he kicks me out? [closed]
My advisor has been unsupportive throughout my research journey, not just to me but to my colleagues as well. As a result, I stopped seeking his advice and worked independently, relying on my own ...
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I feel guilty about past behavior in my college
My relationships with professors is not exactly nice, like the following for example:
Nearly a year ago, I asked to collaborate on a project with a prof A over the summer. He suggested we meet after ...
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Crazy emails from superstar professor [closed]
I'm working on my doctoral degree at a mid-ranked institute. I am visiting a super famous lab and professor for a short time, think the top of the very top in the USA. Some of their research relates ...
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My result is accepted in a journal as an errata, but the editors want to change the authorship
We submitted a result claiming that a paper by an associate editor (of the same journal) contained a proposition that is proven mistaken by us, and furthermore, the proof of a theorem is incomplete.
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Submitting 2 manuscripts explaining the same scientific fact but by two different methods
I have submitted two manuscripts on physics both have analyzed a new finding by me but the methods of the "analysis" are different.
They differ in data, results and figures, just at the end, ...
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Should I ask permission from my former PI after finishing my contract when I'm sole author of the paper?
I'm a postdoc and I worked with a PI with whom I had many issues and disagreement. I even went to HR to report him for breaking the law. He told me to write the paper by myself as a single author. ...
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Is it madatory to obtain an ethical clearance from my affiliated institute for an interview that is to be presented in a conference? [closed]
I'm a research scholar and I'll be presenting a paper related to publishing industry. I'm yet to interview concerned participants. I have obtained consent from them through a consent form. But I haven'...
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An editor thinks a correction should be posted on the author's website rather than published. Is he sticking to the academic ethics?
I had a casual chat about a famous paper in mathematical economics with an editor of a journal different from where the paper was published. We agree that some of the mathematical results are mistaken....
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Can my grant pay for a conference marginally related to award?
My NSF award runs out in a several months. It still has funds budgeted for conference travel. I cannot find any conferences that would be strongly tied to the work. However there is one I would like ...
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Should Conference Paper Reviewers Conduct Preliminary Literature Searches Before Evaluating Submissions?
I am curious about the extent to which reviewers should engage with the existing literature before evaluating a submitted paper.
Specifically, is it advisable or expected for reviewers to search for ...
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Article that plagiarized our paper is still available and gets cited - what to do?
One year ago, we discovered that one of our papers published in an IEEE journal was plagiarized by another paper published in the another journal.
I wrote the both journals; the journal I published in ...
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Ethics and legality of supervisor using student's results in grant report
A university scholarship funds a PhD student X. X is supervised by Y, who manages an EU project grant with significant funding (in the order of at least six zeros), which requires reporting. The ...
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Plagiarism in paragraph and image, or not?
I wrote a review paper with my classmate during our master's program. We checked it in Turnitin, and the similarity was less than 10%. It got published in an Elsevier journal with an impact factor of ...
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Should I ask for authorship or ignore?
I completed my post-graduation and published some review papers in reputable journals. One of the professors from my institution contacted me to work on his students' papers. I gave each paper a ...
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approval for adding figures for comparison into our own publications in phy/eng fields
In physical and engineering sciences it is common to compare with figures generated by other publications. Then it's said we need to get people's approval when adding their figures into our own ...
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