Publication Ethics
Publication ethics: definition, introduction & importance
Best practices/standard setting initiative & guidelines: COPE, WAME etc
Conflicts of interest, group discussions on conflicts of interest
Publication misconducts: definition, concept, problems that lead to unethical behaviour & vice versa, types
Violation of publication ethics, authorship & contributor-ship, group discussion on subject specific authorship issues
Identification of publication misconduct, complaints & appeals, group discussion on examples and fraud from India & abroad
Predatory Publishers & journals