Authorship & Research Ethics
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Hallucinated Citations:How to Verify AI-Generated References
Hallucinated citations can seem ready to paste into your manuscript, and an AI-generated reference may appear complete and credible. Each ma…
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How to Respond to Reviewer Comments About AI Use (With Examples)
A reviewer asks whether AI helped prepare your manuscript, or the journal asks about AI use before the review can proceed. Perhaps you used …
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How to Write AI Disclosure Statements for Research Papers With Examples
Many journals now ask authors to report how they used generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, while preparing a manuscript. An AI disclosure s…
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Journal AI Policies for Authors in 2026
You used AI to polish a paragraph, translate your abstract, or suggest references. Before you submit, what should you tell the journal? Ther…
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How to Avoid Conflicts of Interest in Research
Ethical integrity is essential to promoting a healthy collaborative environment among academics. Due to the information explosion of the dig…
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Ghost Authorship in Journal Manuscripts
As you may recall from our last post, we defined “authorship” according to the guidelines developed by the International Committee of Medica…
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What is Journal Authorship?
In a previous article, we explored ways to improve your manuscript acceptance rate by examining the factors editors consider when making the…
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How to Order Authors in Scientific Papers
It’s rare that an article is authored by only one or two people anymore. In fact, the average original research paper has five authors these…
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