أخلاقيات النشر بدوريات العلوم الصحية العربية المكشفة بقاعدة بيانات "ISI Web of Knowledge" : دراسة بأسلوب تحليل المحتوى

Abstract EN

Publication ethics is an important aspect of both the research and publication enterprises.

It is particularly important in the field of health sciences because published data may directly affect human health.

In this study, I examine publication ethics policies in Arabic health sciences journals (n= 43) indexed in “Web of Knowledge” database.

Depending on the content Analysis method, author covered the most important publication ethics that mentioned in the 'Instructions for Authors' section in each journal.

To investigate the Arabic health sciences journals in terms of ethical issues, author identified 11 main categories.

The most important categories are the following: "Ethical standards" (95.3%), "Duplicate Submission" (95.3%), and "Authorship" (93%).

Regrading the scientific misconduct, the study found that there are some best practices the health journals take into interest such as "Ethical standards" (95.3%), "Authorship" (93%), and "Ethical Consent" (88.4%).

Only five journals (11.6%) have instrucions about the sanctions will be applied in case of the violations of the ethical policies.