Publishing 101: How to Get Your Work Published and Avoid Ethical Minefields

Symposium — Monday, April 24, 2024 — 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM — , Room W192A
Publications Committee — Chair: Curt D Sigmund — Co-Chair: Rita Scheman

This symposium continues a well-attended series and will be directed primarily at graduate students, post-docs and newly appointed faculty, although anyone will be welcome.  The symposium aims to provide an overview of the APS Publications Program and ethical issues that are  commonly encountered.  The session will cover publications strategies such as selection of the appropriate journal, what constitutes authorship and responding to reviewers.  Attendees will be introduced to practical issues about the submission and review process. The symposium will focus in on the most common ethical challenges in research publication, including authorship, plagiarism, data duplication and image manipulation.  Following the formal presentations, a panel discussion will be held with the speakers, which include two of the Societys Journal Editors-in-Chief. The session will be organized and presented by the Chair of the APS Publications Committee and the APS Director of Publications.

Speakers

• Choosing a Journal: Authorship and Peer Review
  Curt D. Sigmund — Department of Pharmacology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver Col. of Med., Univ. of Iowa


• Ethical minefields II: image manipulation
  Christina Bennett — Publications, American Physiological Society


• Speaker and Ethics Case Study Panelist
  
  Irving H. Zucker — Department of Cellular and Interactive Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center


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  André Marette — Axe cardiologie, Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de cardiologie et pneumologie de Qu, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University