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Authorship & Publication Ethics Course & Certification
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The Authorship & Publication Ethics Course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of ethical authorship practices and responsible scholarly publishing. It emphasizes the importance of transparency, accountability, fairness, and integrity in the preparation, submission, review, and publication of research outputs to ensure trust in the scientific record.
This course covers key areas including authorship criteria, contributor roles and responsibilities, acknowledgements, publication ethics, peer review, conflicts of interest, plagiarism, duplicate publication, data transparency, corrections and retractions, and the ethical management of research outputs. It also highlights international standards and best practices that support responsible publication and academic integrity. Upon completion, learners receive a certification demonstrating competency in authorship and publication ethics principles and practices.
Who Should Enrol?
- Researchers and Research Staff
- Principal Investigators and Co-Investigators
- Graduate and Postgraduate Students
- Academic Faculty and Educators
- Clinical Research Professionals
- Medical Writers and Publication Professionals
- Journal Editors and Peer Reviewers
- Anyone involved in preparing, reviewing, or publishing research outputs
What you will learn
Understand the principles of ethical authorship, including authorship criteria, contributor responsibilities, acknowledgements, and accountability for published work.
Gain knowledge of publication ethics, peer review processes, conflicts of interest, and the standards that support integrity in scholarly publishing.
Learn how to identify and prevent unethical publication practices, including plagiarism, duplicate publication, guest authorship, ghost authorship, and data misrepresentation.
Develop expertise in responsible manuscript preparation, data transparency, corrections, retractions, and best practices for maintaining trust in the scientific record.
Course Syllabus
- Authorship Means Contribution + Accountability
- The Four ICMJE Criteria
- All Four, Not Just One
- CRediT — 14 Contributor Roles
- Authorship vs Acknowledgement
- Author Order + Roles
- How Authorship Norms Differ
- Accountability in Practice
- Gift, guest + ghost authorship
- More Than Bad Manners
- Common Dispute Triggers
- When Contributions Change Mid-Project
- An Authorship Agreement Prevents Most Disputes
- Resolving an Authorship Dispute
- Power Dynamics + Authorship
- Rights to Thesis-Derived Papers
- How Serious Is the Dispute?
- Duplicate + redundant publication
- Salami-slicing
- Text recycling — When It's OK
- Plagiarism in all its forms
- Honest + complete citation
- Duplicate Publication + the Evidence Base
- How to Disclose Related Work
- Similarity Reports
- What Makes a Journal Legitimate
- Predatory Journals
- Open Access + Preprints
- Responsible Peer Review
- Reviewer Misconduct
- Open-Access Routes Compared
- Rights Retention + Licences
- Corrections, errata + retractions
- Image + data integrity
- Declarations journals expect
- Generative AI in authorship + writing
- Pre-Submission Authorship + Publishing Checklist
- Types of Post-Publication Notice
- Data + Code Sharing
Course Benefits
CPD Points
Gain Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Points, accredited by The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. These can be used to count towards the distance learning element of any scheme that comes under the umbrella of The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges or any other scheme for which there is mutual recognition.
Certification
Receive a personal certificate to show your subject knowledge on course completion.
Affordable
You get excellent value through our cost-effective prices. We can also offer you group discounts on larger purchases.
Flexibility
The course saves you time through the convenience of online availability. This lets you complete the interactive course at your own comfort.
Keep Up to Date
You will stay up to date with developments in publication ethics — including ICMJE authorship recommendations, the CRediT taxonomy and COPE guidance — as our courses are constantly monitored, reviewed and updated.
Learn from Industry Experts
The course has been developed by research integrity and scholarly-publishing specialists so that authors and reviewers can make fair, defensible decisions about credit and publication.
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