Survey and analysis of the system construction situation of domestic medical and health journals in responding to authors'academic misconduct
[Purposes]This paper aims to investigate and analyze the current problems in the construction of the system in responding to authors'academic misconduct in domestic medical and health journals,and put forward countermeasures and suggestions.[Methods]Taking the 258 medical and health journals included in Peking University's 2020 Edition of A Guide to the Core Journal of China as the research object,we investigated and analyzed the current situation of the system construction of each journal that counteracts the authors'academic misconduct.The investigation included the establishment of the relevant system to counteract the authors'academic misconduct,the types of academic misconduct,and the relevant punitive measures covered by the content of the system.[Findings]256(99.22%)journals have formulated systems to counteract the authors'academic misconduct while only 29(11.32%)journals have relatively perfect content of the system.The attention to some academic misconduct such as data falsification is lacking.Only 125(48.83%)journals have formulated punitive measures for the authors'academic misconduct but are defective in specific mechanisms of punitive work,existing problems such as the lack of diverse punitive measures,imperfect supervision of the whole process of punishment,and poor results of the final implementation.[Conclusions]The construction of an academic misconduct response system of domestic medical and health journals needs to be further completed,which requires the system release to be more accurate and detailed,the system content to be updated in time,and the system integrity to be improved.It is suggested that domestic journals further improve the academic misconduct response system,optimize the punishment mechanism for academic misconduct,and enhance the ability to detect academic misconduct.
Medical and health journalPublication ethicsAcademic misconductSystem constructionPunitive measure
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