Promoting Integrity in Science Journals

Integrity begins with a standard, something that's currently lacking, says the Council of Science Editors.

Ethical controversy and reports of scientific misconduct have received substantial attention recently. Are researchers behaving unethically more than they used to? Are technologies both enabling such misconduct and making it easier to catch? Are there truly more such misconduct and breaches of ethics relative to the amount of research performed and reported?

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