Ethical statement in medical research manuscripts: A Necessary step for quality control

Authors

  • Brijesh Sathian Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara
  • Indrajit Banerjee Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara
  • Jayadevan Sreedharan Assistant Director, Research Division, Gulf Medical University, Ajman
  • B Roy Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara
  • RJ Yadav Director Grade Scientist, Indian Council of Medical Research, Ansari Nagar, Delhi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/nje.v4i3.10661

Keywords:

Ethics, Medical Research, Nepal, Declaration of Helsinki

Abstract

Recently there are several budding medical journals which are coming from developing countries and also there is a large number of publishers. It will foster medical research from these countries. Authors will improve the skill of medical writing because of these journals senior, experienced international/ national editorial and review board. Also this team is responsible for the quality of the journal. Journals primary aim should not be making money and get other benefit to the people who are dealing with it. Journals should produce evidence based new information to the medical science which will benefit to the new generation physicians, scientists and readers. 

There is a tremendous increase in the medical research articles in the recent years because most of the institutions, universities and funding agencies consider the publication history of the scientists for their promotion and incentive. It results with good practice and bad practice of research. There are several scientists and teaching faculty members who publish the articles without proper data or they plagiarise other scientist work.  It can be stopped only by the national medical research authorities like Indian Council of Medical Research [India], Nepal Health Research Council [Nepal], etc. for each country level and the Institutional Research and Ethics Committee in  the institutional level. 

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nje.v4i3.10661

Nepal Journal of Epidemiology 2014; 4(3):348-50

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Published

2014-06-28

How to Cite

Sathian, B., Banerjee, I., Sreedharan, J., Roy, B., & Yadav, R. (2014). Ethical statement in medical research manuscripts: A Necessary step for quality control. Nepal Journal of Epidemiology, 4(3), 348–350. https://doi.org/10.3126/nje.v4i3.10661

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 3 (2014)

Section

Editorial

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