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Unit I
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Philosophy and Ethics
- Introduction to philosophy: definition; nature & scope; concept; branches
- Ethics: definition; moral philosophy; nature of moral judgements & reactions
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4
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Unit II
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Scientific Conduct
- Ethics with respect to science & research, group discussion on subject specific ethical issues
- Intellectual honesty & research integrity
- Scientific misconducts: falsification, fabrication, & plagiarism (FPP), group discussion on subject specific FPP issues
- Redundant publications: duplicate & overlapping publications, salami slicing
- Selective reporting & misrepresentation of data
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6
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Unit III
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Publication Ethics
- Publication ethics: definition, introduction & importance
- Best practices/standard setting initiative & guidelines: COPE, WAME etc
- Conflicts of interest, group discussions on conflicts of interest
- Publication misconducts: definition, concept, problems that lead to unethical behaviour& vice versa, types
- Violation of publication ethics, authorship & contributor-ship, group discussion on subject specific authorship issues
- Identification of publication misconduct, complaints & appeals, group discussion on examples and fraud from India & abroad
- Predatory Publishers & journals
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7
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Unit IV
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Open Access Publishing
- Open access publications & initiatives SHERPA/RoMEO online resource to check publisher copyright & self-archiving policies
- Journal finder/journal suggestion tools viz. JANE, Elsevier Journal Finder, Springer Journal Suggester etc.
- Software tools developed by SPPU to identify predatory publications
- Software tools: use of plagiarism software like Turnitin, Urkund, and other open source software tools
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7
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Unit V
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Databases & Research Metrics
Databases (3 hrs)
- Indexing databases
- Citation databases: Web of Science, Scopus, etc.
Research Metrics (3 hrs)
- Impact Factor of journal as per Journal Citation Report, SNIP, SJR, IPP, Cite Score
- Metrics: h-index, g index, i10 index, altmetrics
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6
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Total
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30
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