Ethics in matter of edition
Wegmann, R.J.
Cellular and Molecular Biology 43(3): 269-284
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0145-5680 PMID: 9193781 Document Number: 484104
In this review are presented the different aspects and problems to which the edition of a journal like "Cellular and Molecular Biology" is submitted as well as all the incidences happening in the organization and editorial matter. There are presented the most frequent dysfunctions hampering the editorial and organisatorial activities, striking frontally all Ethical Rules and some of them constituting true criminal mafia activities from the side as well of authors and scientists as of a rival publishing company like Elsevier and of well established scientific organizations, like the IFCB and the CSBMCB, demonstrating as so far how lobbies exert inadmissible dictatorial pressures on the activity as well of individuals as of a journal like CMB and on a congress organization like our group, the Founders of the World Congresses of Cellular and Molecular Biology. Many examples are mentioned, most of them without indication of names and places for evident Ethical reasons but other ones with full names and places, particularly to obtain their condemnation by the Justice of particular countries and essentially by the High Court of the Human Rights for having used and for continuing to use mafiosi methods.