Authors- the most dangerous pressure group

Research scientists, academicians including faculty members in medical institutions under great pressure to publish papers to get promotions and higher grade indulge in all sort of scientific misconduct all over the world. Some of these include plagiarism, salami slicing, ghost authorship, falsification of data, fabrication of data and at times duplicate submissions etc. The revolution in information technology and tremendous developments which has taken place in the scientific publishing has though eased the job of editors of biomedical journals but it has not reduced their problems which in fact have further multiplied.