Journal of Research in Pharmacy Practice

Abstract Pharmacy practice is an ever‑changing science and profession. We are witnessing many 
advancement of pharmacy technology, drug‑related information and applied clinical pharmacy 
literature, which influence our every day’s life. Thus, new knowledge generated by research 
and clinical experience widen the knowledge; change the understanding of drugs and their 
application in therapeutics and every days life. Thus, policy makers, pharmacists, clinicians and 
researchers must evaluate and use the information existing in the literature to implement 
in their healthcare delivery. This paper is prepared for pharmacy researchers and pharmacy 
students and analyzes the major principles of ethical conduct in general science and also 
closely related topics on ghost authorship, conflict of interest, assigning co‑authorship, 
redundant/repetitive and duplicate publication. Furthermore, the paper provides an insight 
into fabrication and falsification of data, as the most common form of scientific fraud. Scientific 
misconduct goes against everything that normal scientific method wants to reach for and 
pharmacy practitioners as one the first line available health care professionals all round the 
world should be enough aware of its importance and details when they want to evaluate the 
medical and pharmaceutical literature and deliver unbiased and ethically published knowledge 
of drugs both for the research or during consultations for patients care.