ETHICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCH AND

PUBLICATIONS
Ahmad Saharrudin Bin Mat Akir (827478)
Ghayathri k. Sangkar (826960)
Marlina Mohd Nasir (827338)
Introduction
•Ethics are norms of conduct that distinguish
between acceptable and unacceptable behavior.

•Ethics are the principles and guidelines that help

us to uphold things we value.

•Defining way of 'ethics' focuses on the disciplines

that study standards of conduct. For example a
“counselling ethicist" who studies ethical standards
in counselling.
Meaning
•Research Ethics involves the application of
fundamental ethical principles to a variety of topics
involving counselling research.

•Research ethics educates and monitors a

researcher conducting a research to ensure a high
ethical standards.
 Why It Is Important In Research ?
• Promote the aims of research, such as knowledge, truth, and
avoidance of error.

• Ethical standards promote the values that are essential to

collaborative work, such as trust, accountability, mutual
respect.

• Ensure that researchers can be held accountable to the

public.

•Ethical norms in research also help to build public support for

research.

•Promote a variety of other important moral and social values

Basic Principles Of Research Ethics

• Honesty • Respect for

• Objectivity intellectual property
• Integrity • Confidentiality
• Carefulness • Respect for clients
• Openness • Non discrimination
• Social Responsibility
Important Areas In Research Ethics
• Plagiarism
• Fabrication and falsification
• Nonpublication of data
• Faulty data-gathering
• Poor data storage and retention
• Misleading authorship
Authorship
• Research evolves from collaboration and
assistance between experts and colleagues
• Authorship is the process of deciding about ‘on
who names a research paper belongs’.
• “Authorship is reserved for persons who
receives primary credit and hold primary
responsibility for a published work”
• It decides which colleagues should be listed as
authors or co- authors.
Issue On Authorship In Publication
•Publication must give appropriate credit to all
authors for their roles in the research.

• The decision of which names are to be listed as co-

authors should reflect the relative contributions of
various participants in the research.

• A person's name should not be listed as author

without his or her knowledge, permission, and review
of the final version of the manuscript, which includes
the names of all co-authors.
 References
•Practical Research: Planning And Design, Pearson Prentice Hall,
2005, New Jersey

• Danilo B. Largo, Lecture Slides: Code Of Conducts In Research For

Solg, Aug. 14,2012

•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_ethics

•www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/whatis/

•http://www.cwu.edu/~jefferis/PEHL557/pehl557_ethics.html

•http://healthcare.partners.org/phsirb/BillofRights.htm Paul