Scientific Publishing: 4. Publication Ethics

This is the fourth of a five-lecture Seminar on Scientific Publishing, presented by Manolis Antonoyiannakis at Columbia University (sponsored by IGERT Quantum Optics) in 2016-2017. The seminar aims to train and inform graduate students and junior researchers on matters pertaining to scientific publishing. Its five themes are: (1) writing a paper, (2) peer review, (3) citation analysis & performance metrics, (4) publication ethics, and (5) topics from the history & sociology of science publishing. 

Seminar 4: Publication Ethics

• Authorship
• References
• Priority claims
• Reproducibility  
• Fabricating data 
• Plagiarism and self-plagiarism 
• Retractions, Comments, and Errata 
• Expanded versions of Letters
• Being scooped: what to do to avoid it, and how to survive it