Pedagogy:

Class room teaching, Guest Lectures, group discussions and practical sessions. Total teaching hours shall be 30 hours.

Evaluation

Continuous assessment will be done through tutorials, assignments, quizzes and group discussions. Weightage will be given for active participation. Final written examination will be conducted at the end of the course.

SYLLABUS IN DETAIL Theory      RPE 01: PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS (3hrs.)

1.   Introduction to Philosophy: definition, nature and scope, concept, branches

2.   Ethics: definition, moral philosophy, nature of moral judgment and reactions

RPE 02: SCIENTIFIC CONDUCT (5hrs.)

1.   Ethics with respect to science and research

2.   Intellectual honesty and research  integrity

3.   Scientific misconducts: Falsification, Fabrication and Plagiarism (FPP)

4.   Redundant publications: duplicate and over lapping publications, salami slicing

5.   Selective  reporting and misrepresentation of data

RPE 03: PUBLICATIUON ETHICS (7hrs.) 

1.   Publication ethics: definition, introduction and importance

2.   Best practices / standard setting initiatives and guidelines: COPE, WAME, etc.

3.   Conflicts of interest

4.   Publication misconduct: Definition, concept, problems that lead to unethical behavior and vice versa, types

5.   Violation and publication ethics, authorship and contributor ship

6.   Identification of publication misconduct, complaints and appeals

7.   Predatory publishers and journals

Practice RPE 04: OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING (4hrs.)

1.   Open access publications and initiatives

2.   SHERPA/RoMEO online recourse  to check publisher copyright & self archiving policies

3.   Software tool of identify predatory publications developed by SPPU

4.   Journals finder/journals suggestion tools viz. JANE, Elsevier Journals Finder, Springer Journals Suggester, etc.

RPE 05: PUBLICATION MISCONDUCT (4hrs.)

A. Group Discussions (2hrs.)

1.   Subject specific ethical issues, FFP, authorship

2.   Conflicts of interest

3.   Complaints and appeals: examples and fraud from India and abroad

B. Software tools (1hrs.)

1. Use of plagiarism software like Turnitin, Urkund and other open source software tools

RPE 06:  DATABASE AND RESEARCH METRICS (7hrs.) A. Database (4hrs.)

1.   Indexing databases

2.   Citation databases: Web of Sciences, Scopus, etc.

B. Research Metrics (3hrs.)

1.   Impact factor of journal as per Journal Citation Report, SNIP, SJR, IPP, Cite Score

2.   Metrics: h-index, g index, i 10 index, altmetrics