SALAMI PUBLICATION: AN OUTLOOK FROM THE LENS OF ETHICAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

In the increasing quest for publication of research papers, the authors become overzealous to section their research articles which can help in portraying a big number of research papers in the credit of the author. The scientist community and the medical fraternity values the researcher based on their number of publications with a researcher having less number of so called acceptable number of research papers getting vanished in the crowd of renowned researchers. This narrative review aimed to explore the ethical considerations related to salami publication (salami slicing) in research. It was concluded that salami slicing is not entirely an ethical misconduct. However authors and editors of the journals have a liability to protect the research integrity by stating that this peace of research is a salami publication.