Assessment of scientific integrity in healthcare journals: an analysis of article submission guidelines

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Ednéia Silva Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Andrade, Diogo Roberto da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista EDICIC
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.edicic.org/revistaedicic/article/view/284
• topic: Integridade Científica; Ética Informacional; Originalidade; Periódicos Científicos – Brasil; Saúde; Scientific Integrity; Information Ethics; Originality; Scientific Journals – Brazil; Health; Integridad Científica; Ética de la Información; Originalidad; Revistas Científicas – Brasil; Salud

It is considered a reality among scientific journals their susceptible to academic misconduct – such as plagiarism, self-plagiarism and lack of originality – on the part of authors who submit manuscripts (articles, research reports, essays, etc.). To avoid a disorder in this scientific field approaches and guidelines are adopted so that the submission of manuscripts meets scientific integrity in the different areas of knowledge. This study aims at the field of Brazilian Health Science, which is adopted as the research universe to analyze the guidelines for submitting articles to journals in this field. The proposal for this line of studies involves Information Literacy, the ethical use of information and scientific integrity. On this flow, the series of studies aims to address the quality of information on ethical principles on journal portals, which should be interpreted as institutional measures for good science and for combating academic plagiarism. The general objective is to analyze guidelines related to scientific integrity in Brazilian health journals and which criteria for analyzing scientific originality are applied. To carry out this qualitative research, Bardin's Content Analysis is used to examine the information contained in the guidelines for authors on the pages of Health Science journals indexed in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO). In this proposition, an information and communication gap in journals that do not have explicit guidelines on ethics and plagiarism checking can be perceived as a problem for information ethics studies.