Good Practices and Ethics in Research and Publication

This is a Textbook for the compulsory Course on Research and Publication Ethics approved by UGC for Ph.D. students. The following are the salient features of the book: - Introduces the general ethics to be respected in research and publication - Suggests good practices to be followed in research and publication - Warns about identification of publication misconducts and ensuing actions - Creates awareness about open access publishing - Creates awareness against predatory publishing - Explains where and how to search literature online for conducting research - Explains where and how to search journals online for submitting manuscripts - Explains the handling of software tools for plagiarism check - Presents citation indexing bibliographic databases - Familiarizes with both journal-level and author-level research metrics