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Swayam

Research and Publication Ethics (RPE)

Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata and IGNOU via Swayam

Overview

The course may be useful for the Ph.D. students as they can earn 2-credit from the SWAYAM-MOOC. This course has total six modules focusing on basics of philosophy of science and ethics, research integrity, publication ethics, and identifying research misconduct and predatory publications. Indexing and citation database, open access publications, research metrics and plagiarism tools has been discussed in the course.In this online course (MOOC) recorded lectures, e-text, self assessment questions, quizzes will be the part of the pedagogy. There will term-end examination for certification.

Syllabus

Week

Module Name

Week 1

Module 1: Philosophy And Ethics

  • Introduction to philosophy- scope, concept, branches.

  • Ethics: definition-moral philosophy,

  • nature of moral judgments

Week 2

Module 2: Scientific Conduct

  • Ethics with respect to science and research; Intellectual honesty and research integrity

  • Scientific misconducts: Falsification- Fabrication, and Plagiarism -Redundant publications

  • Selective reporting and misrepresentation of data

Week 3

Module 3: Publication Ethics

  • Publication ethics: definition, introduction and importance

  • Best practices/ standards setting initiatives and guidelines: COPE, WAME etc.

  • Publication misconduct: definition, concept, problems etc.

  • Violation of publication ethics, authorship and contributorship; Identification of publication misconduct, complaints and appeals

  • Predatory publishers and journals

Week 4

Module 4: Open Access Publishing

  • Open access publications and initiatives

  • OER- Open licenses- types & uses

  • SHERPA/ ROMEO online resource to check publisher copyright & self- archiving policies etc.

Week 5

Module 5: Publication Misconduct

  • Subject-specific issues, FFP, authorship

  • Conflicts of interest

  • Complaints and appeals: examples and fraud from India and abroad

  • Software tools :Introduction- Turnitin, Urkund and other open source software tools

Week 6

Module 6: Databases and Research Metrics

  • Databases-Indexing databases

  • Citation databases: Web of Science, Scopus, etc.

  • Research Metrics-Impact Factor of journal as per Journal Citation Report, SNIP, SJR, IPP, Cite Score

  • Metrics: h-index, g index, etc.

Taught by

Dr. Anirban Ghosh

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