Ethical Priority Setting for Successful Publishing by Iranian Scientists

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In 2016, BioMed Central (BMC), a leading open-access publisher, retracted 58 Iranian articles due to alleged peer review and authorship manipulations.1 The next year, PubMed Central (PMC) reevaluated and discontinued archiving of 14 Iranian journals, which failed to meet the “scientific and editorial standards” of the global digital repository.2 Later on, Elsevier retracted 26 Iranian articles, which were mostly authored by the same physicist, due to “peer-review manipulations” and “unexplained authorship irregularities,”3 and Wiley pulled 13 articles of an Iranian ichthyologist over “concerns about faked peer review.”4 Although such unfortunate incidents take place globally, Iranian scholars could escape the latest grim allegations by adhering to the global and local editorial guidance.

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