There are examples of unacceptable behavior below when publishing scientific materials. This short list is not exhaustive.
- Deception: the presentation of fabricated results, or the concealment or arbitrary modification of data.
- Duplication of submitted manuscripts: submission of the same manuscript in two different journals until the final decision to publish by the editor of the journal that was the first was made.
- Simultaneous presentation of two articles with very close content without the necessary cross-citation.
- Duplicate publication: publish the same article first in one journal, and then again in another journal without proper references and permissions.
- Inadequate citation: improper citation of related works of other authors.
- Plagiarism: a presentation of material taken from the work of other authors as his own work.
- Self-copying: re-publication of one’s own material, which was previously published in another literary source, without reference to an earlier publication.
If the facts of such misconduct are revealed, then the editors may impose sanctions on the authors of the corresponding manuscript. Such sanctions may cover the range from an immediate denial of publication because of a violation of the rules, or a severe warning to the author about the fate of his future publications, up to the prohibition on the submission of articles for a certain period. Editors can draw the attention of editors of similar journals, as well as other publishers, to violations of ethical norms and publish information about violation of ethical rules, names of violators of these rules and sanctions imposed on them. All correspondence pertaining to one or another case of violation of ethical rules should be kept for 10 years. The right to decide which sanctions should be applied in each case belongs to the editors. Members of respected editorial boards may be involved as advisers in the most difficult cases, but only if this does not make the decision-making process excessively long.
(Taken from: Journal of Analytical Chemistry. 2007 T. 62, No. 4. P. 441-444.)
