Professional ethics, scientific ethics or research ethics, whatever we call it, is one of the most essential needs and requirements of the research field. There are many points in academic essay writing and original researches, the failure to observe them causes distrust in the author and his writings. With the advancement of information technology and quick access to texts and articles, there is a high possibility of going off the road of fairness and ethics when writing, and this is exactly the reason why the need to observe various aspects of research ethics is felt.
Copying other people's articles, using quotes and references from other people's articles and books and attributing them to oneself, stealing other people's theory and pretending to be ignorant, sending an article to several journals and involving staff and referees and all their facilities to In order to increase the possibility of acceptance of the article, ignoring the merit of precedence and the merit of previous researchers and claiming to be a pioneer in a scientific discussion, sending the article without notifying the supervisor and sometimes leaving him unaware until long after the article is published, writing the article for others and All of them are clear examples of immorality in the field of research.
In the meantime, writing articles for others is one of the things that we have recently witnessed. Many times we have seen colorful announcements and advertisements in the community and in the media (both real and virtual) that encourage students, especially master's and doctoral students, to buy dissertations, researches, and articles. There is no doubt that sales people are those who are very accurate and persistent in understanding the academic community and the needs and tastes of the people of this community. On the other hand, when a product has no customers, its market will soon become stagnant, but the market for selling articles and treatises is getting hotter and hotter day by day. This is another cause of regret that some students do not respect academic obligations, trade union rights and academic ethics.
Another issue that is seen from time to time is sending an article to several publications. This causes different journals to be involved in reviewing, judging and possibly publishing an article, and since there is no single information network that can be used to prevent parallel work in the field of research and article writing in our country, sometimes an article It is published in two or more publications, and the opportunities to publish are actually taken away from others. Although some of these researchers, when they are sure of the acceptance of their article in one of the journals, with a short email or a simple text message, they ask the other journal to refrain from publishing the article, but these people do not know to what extent this will cause disorder and confusion. In the revised journal, they violated research ethics. It is true that the process of publishing research and academic journals is sometimes slow and wastes time, but this is not a reason to offer a product to several people and then hand over the right to own it to all of them.
Based on the expected ethical principles, researchers in the field of literary criticism and stylistics are requested to prepare their articles according to the standards and criteria of academic ethics and send them to the journal of literary criticism and stylistics.