Sharma Bharat Bhushan, Singh Virendra
Division of Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, SMS Medical College, Jaipur, India.
Lung India. 2011 Apr;28(2):148-50. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.80337.
Fraudulent data and plagiarized text may corrupt scientific medical literature and ultimately harm patients. By prescribing erroneous treatment to an individual, only single patient is affected; but by presenting incorrect data or transcripts, the whole scientific medical universe is affected. Although both scenarios are highly undesirable, one can assume the magnitude of the effect of latter. Writers of scientific medical literature have been found to be involved in plagiarism and other publication misconducts from time to time irrespective of social, economic and geographic structure. The reason of such behavior is not usually obvious. Easy availability of personal computers has led to widespread dissemination of medical literature. As a result, young scientists are now publishing their research more frequently and efficiently. At the same time, this has increased the tendency to submit hurriedly prepared, poorly drafted and even illegitimate publications. Use of some amount of copy-paste followed by modifications during preparation of a manuscript seems to be common. Therefore, the researchers, especially postgraduate students, should be educated continuously about ethical medical writing.
欺诈性数据和抄袭文本可能会破坏科学医学文献，最终损害患者利益。给个体开出错误的治疗方案，只会影响单个患者；但呈现不正确的数据或记录，则会影响整个科学医学领域。尽管这两种情况都非常不可取，但人们可以想象后者影响的程度。人们发现，无论社会、经济和地理结构如何，科学医学文献的作者时不时会涉及抄袭和其他出版不当行为。这种行为的原因通常并不明显。个人电脑的普及导致医学文献广泛传播。结果，年轻科学家现在更频繁、高效地发表他们的研究成果。与此同时，这也增加了匆忙提交准备不充分、起草不佳甚至非法出版物的倾向。在撰写手稿时使用一定量的复制粘贴然后修改似乎很常见。因此，应该持续对研究人员，尤其是研究生进行医学伦理写作教育。
