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Developing a publishing ethics policy for a journal
• Clear guidelines on submission of the work
• Work not published before
• Except abstract, part of published lecture, review of a thesis
• The work not under consideration elsewhere
• Copyright not breached in seeking publication
• Publication approved by all co‐authors and responsible authorities at the institute or organization where the work has been carried out
• What type of content is or is not acceptable for publication • Scope
• Guidelines on what constitutes authorship and how proposed changes to authorships is handled • Inclusion of the necessary ethical statements if required
Committee in publication ethics (COPE)
• Established in 1997 by a small group of medical journal editors
• A word‐wide multidiciplinary group comprising more than 8000 members
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