Bibliometrics as a promising tool for solving publication ethics issues

Vadim N Gureyev; Nikolay A Mazov

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09123

Bibliometrics as a promising tool for solving publication ethics issues

Heliyon. 2022 Mar 16;8(3):e09123. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09123. eCollection 2022 Mar.

Authors

Vadim N Gureyev^{1

2}, Nikolay A Mazov^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ State Public Scientific Technological Library, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.
² Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology, Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Region, Russia.
³ Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.

Abstract

Publication ethics principles became one of the main aspects of conducting scientific research and presenting its results. Publication ethics challenges cover a wide range of problems of varying importance that involve all participants of publication processes: authors, academic authorities, peer-reviewers, editorial board members, publishers, and funders. All stakeholders put efforts to make modern science and publication processes ethical. This goal is achieved first of all through detailed criteria of publication ethics and extensive author guidelines, as well as by increasing the level of awareness of these criteria in educational programs aimed at prophylactics of research misconduct. However, there is a need for technical facilities for detecting different cases of violation of ethical principles, and bibliometric methods are one of the most promising approaches. The paper summarizes the authors' recent studies on bibliometric perspectives for detecting plagiarism, inappropriate authorship, and official misconduct among editorial board members.

Keywords: Academic journals; Academic libraries; Authorship; Bibliometrics; Plagiarism detection; Publication ethics.