Accountability to scientific misconduct: the SciELO editors’ view
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https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v16i3.3306Keywords:
Scientific editors, Scientific misconducts, Ethics and research integrity, Accountability, Journals and editorial flowAbstract
Accountability in scientific communication and publishing is an important topic in ethics and research integrity, and one of the great challenges of science today. This article presents a descriptive study on accountability and its actors in scientific communication (authors, reviewers, editors), starting from the issue of accountability of these actors and from the scientific misconducts viewed by SciELO journals editors in Brazil and Latin America. Based on the editors’ view, it stands that the authors are responsible, and the reviewers and the editors are partially responsible.
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