Host: The Japan Radiation Research Society, Chairman of the 52nd Annual Meeting, Toshiteru Okubo (Radiation Effects Research Foundation)
The purpose of this luncheon seminar is to encourage discussion on publication ethics, especially on definition of authorship, gift authorship, conflict of interest, and peer review system in scientific journals for preventing scientific misconduct. As Frank Davidoff, past editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine, points out “Science does not exist until it is published”, the issues on publication ethics and good publication practice become more important one recently. I also discuss on the development of the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (URM) that was founded in Vancouver, Canada, in 1978. The URM have been changing from style manual to ethical guideline for writing medical papers. Now, the URM have gained widespread acceptance by journal editors, but is not well known either to researchers and faculty members with active research careers who publish frequently. Focusing on publication ethics as an essential aspect of responsible scientific conduct is now requested.
