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Scientific Ethics

Web Resources

Online Ethics Center @ National Academy of Engineering (US) Web Clearinghouse for Engineering and Computing Ethics IEEE - Ethics Resources and Organizations IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee IEEE Society for Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) Ethics Committee Engineering Ethics @ Texas A&M Univeristy Engineering Ethics @ National Society of Professional Engineers El Naschie Watch M.S. El Naschie's Homepage (Arabic Website) FamousPlagiarists.com (WarOnPlagiarism.org) Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification (Journal) plagiarismadvice.org (Plagiarism Conference) iParadigms, LLC (turnitin, iThenticate, Plagiarism.org) DUDE (DUplicate text DEtection) SPlaT CrossCheck eTBlast Plagiarism Detection Research Group @ Uni-Hertfordshire CNKI科研诚信管理系统研究中心 ROST论文检测与内容挖掘网 SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator The official Herbert Schlangemann Blog iaria-highsci.blogspot.com bogus-conferences.blogspot.com bogusconferences.blogspot.com ISSI (International Society for Scientometrics and Infometrics) Scientometrics 五柳村

Selected Articles

• Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics, created by the Computer Ethics Institute, 1992 © Brooking Institute
• Harold S. Stone, Copyrights and Author Responsibilities, Computer, vol. 25, no. 12, Dec. 1992, pp. 46-51, IEEE Computer Society © IEEE
• Herbert Michaelson, How an Author can Avoid the Pitfalls of Practical Ethics, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, vol. 33, no. 2, June 1990, pp. 58-61 © IEEE
• John Rodgers, How to Cite Skillfully and Avoid Plagiarizing, online documents, 1997
• Christian Collberg and Stephen Kobourov, Self-Plagiarism in Computer Science, Communications of the ACM, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 88-94, April 2005 © ACM
• Yu-Chi Ho, Xiren Cao, Houmin Yan, Xiaohong Guan, Peter Luh and WeiBo Gong (何毓琦、曹希仁、严厚民、管晓宏、陆宝森、龚维博), On Citing References, Sharing Ideas, and Giving Credit When Writing a Paper or Report (关于学术论文的文献引用及相关的科研道德问题), online document, 2004.
• Lori Allen and Dan Voss, Ethics for Editors: An Analytical Decision-Making Process, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, vol. 41, no. 1, MARCH 1998, pp. 58-65 © IEEE
• Charles P. Campbell, Ethos: Character and Ethics in Technical Writing, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, vol. 38, no. 3, Sep. 1995, pp. 132-138 © IEEE
• Paul M. Dombrowski, Can Ethics be Technologized? Lessons from Challenger, Philosophy, and Rhetoric, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, vol. 38, no. 3, Sep. 1995, pp. 146-150 © IEEE
• Ronald E. Anderson, Deborah G. Johnson, Donald Gotterbarn and Judith Perrolle, Using the New ACM Code of Ethics in Decision Making, Communications of the ACM, vol. 36, no. 2, Feb. 1993, pp. 98-107 (official link) © ACM

Selected Ethics-Related Codes and Policies

• IEEE Policies, Section 6: Published Products and Services, and Section 7: Professional Activities © IEEE, adopted by the IEEE Board of Directors and incorporating revisions through 17 June 2007 © IEEE
• IEEE Policies, Section 7.8: IEEE Code of Ethics © IEEE
• IEEE Policy on Self-Plagiarism © IEEE
• IEEE Position Paper on Ethical Conduct Awareness, approved by the IEEE Board of Directors in November 2004 © IEEE
• ACM Publications Board, Conflict of Interest Policy For Papers Authored By ACM Editors-in-Chief (local copy), adopted at the Publications Board Meeting on March 21, 2000 © ACM
• ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism
• ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, adopted by ACM Council on 16 October 1992 © ACM
• Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (Version 5.2), recommended by the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Task Force on Software Engineering Ethics and Professional Practices and jointly approved by the ACM and the IEEE-CS as the standard for teaching and practicing software engineering © ACM and IEEE

How to Do Good Research

• Richard W. Hamming, You and Your Research (local copy), Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar, 7 March 1986, transcribed by J. F. Kaiser
• Marie desJardins, How to Succeed in Graduate School - A Guide for Students and Advisors, Crossroads: The ACM Student Magazine, Issues 1.2 (December 1994) and 1.3 (February 1995)
• Manuel Blum, Advice to Beginning Graduate Student, or What is Research?, or The 4R's of Graduate School: Reading, Rithmetic, Research and Writing, 29-AUG-01, updated 28-AUG-02.
• Philip E. Agre, How to Be a Leader in Your Field: A Guide for Students in Professional Schools, 7 October 2005
• Oded Goldreich, On our duties as scientists (yet another version with three "personal" stories), March 2004
• Practical Hints for Success in Science, adopted from hints/rules from Prof. J. Andrew McCammon (UCSD) and Dr. James Musser (Baylor College of Medicine)
• Practical Hints for Success in Science, adopted from Dr. Tanner @ University of MO at Columbia
• David Patterson, How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia, presented 2/11/02 at CRA Academic Careers Workshop in Washington D.C. This is a slightly revised and updated version, including advice from Richard Hamming and Ivan Sutherland
• Gian-Carlo Rota, Ten Lessons I wish I Had Been Taught

• Oded Goldreich, How to write a paper, revised and augmented in March 2004
• Henning Schulzrinne, Writing Technical Articles
• Roy Levin and David D. Redell (Ninth SOSP Program Committee Co-chairmen), An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions, -or- How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 35-40, July 1983 ACM
• Simon Peyton Jones, Research skills: how to write a good research paper, give a good research talk, and write a good grant proposal, MIT, April 20 , 1996 on the occasion of the Rotafest
• Michael Ernst, Writing a technical paper, April, 2005, last updated on October 10, 2007
• Michael Ernst, Choosing a venue: conference or journal?, December, 2006
• Michael Ernst, Michael Ernst, Giving a technical presentation (giving a talk), January, 2005, last updated on October 24, 2007
• Yi Ma, Warning Signs of Bogus Progress in Research, December 2007
• Donald Geman, Ten Reasons Why Conference Papers Should Be Abolished, November 2007

• Professional Writing: Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) SPi - Professional Editing Services (SPi for IEEE) 论文吧

Peer Review

• Alan Jay Smith, The Task of the Referee, Computer, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 65-71, April 1990 IEEE Computer Society © IEEE
• Juan Miguel Campanario, Consolation for the Scientists: Sometimes it is Hard to Publish Papers that are Later Highly-Cited, Social Studies of Science, vol. 23, pp. 342-362, 1993 © SAGE Publications
• Juan Miguel Campanario, Have Referees Rejected Some of the Most-Cited Articles of All Times?, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 47, no. 4, 1996, pp. 302-310 © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• A. L. Fradkov, How to Publish a Good Article and to Reject a Bad One. Notes of a Reviewer, Automation and Remote Control, vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 1643–1650, 2003, translated from Avtomatika i Telemekhanika, no. 10, pp. 149–157, 2003. (Original Russian Text Copyright © 2003 by Fradkov).
• Juan Miguel Campanario, Peer Reviewing for Journals as It Stands Today - Part 1, Science Communication (former Knowledge), vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 181-211, March 1998 © SAGE Publications
• Juan Miguel Campanario, Peer Reviewing for Journals as It Stands Today - Part 2, Science Communication (former Knowledge), vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 277-306, June 1998 © SAGE Publications
• Juan Miguel Campanario, The Journal Scout: An Alternative to Peer Review, The Scientist, vol. 11, no. 10, page 9, 1997 © The Scientist
• Juan Miguel Campanario, The Competition for Journal Space among Referees, Editors and Other Authors and Its Influence on Journal's Impact Factors, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 47, no. 3, 1996, pp. 184-192 © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Stephen Cole, Making Science – Between Nature and Society, Harvard University Press, 1995 (中文版: 《科学的制造－在自然界与社会之间》, 林建成/王毅译, 上海人民出版社, 2001) - 注：中文版的翻译不够专业和严谨，如果要用此书做参考文献，建议尽量使用英文原版，参考刘华杰的文章“评《科学的制造：在自然界与社会之间》之翻译”

How to Survive Academia

• Philip E. Agre, Networking on the Network, Crossroads 4.4, Summer 1998

• Michael I. Schwartzbach, How to Get A Permanent Position, or How Not to Not Get A Permanent Position
• Michael Ernst, Getting an academic job, May, 2000, last updated on July 12, 2007
• Michael Ernst, Requesting a letter of recommendation, October, 2002
• Uğur Çetintemel, On the Academic Interview Circuit: An End-to-End Discussion
• Jonathan A. Dantzig, LANDING AN ACADEMIC JOB: The process and the pitfalls, last updated on May 2, 2007
• Mary Corbin Sies, Academic Job Application Checklist
• Mary Corbin Sies, Academic Job Interview Advice
• Mary Corbin Sies, Academic Job Interview Questions

Story about Prestige Factor

Prestige Factor was a company promised to provide journal evaluation services like what Thomson Scientific has been doing for many years. It started in 2001 and died in the next year (2002) because of a lawsuit launched by Thomson Scientific. By reading the following articles about Prestige Factor and Impact Factors, one can learn more about how a scientific journal's impact should be evaluated.

• Paula J. Hane, The Prestige (Factor) Is Gone, Information Today, vol. 19, no. 5, May 2002
• Péter Jacsó, The Mirage of Prestige, May 2002
• Péter Jacsó, A Deficiency in the Algorithm for Calculating the Impact Factor of Scholarly Journals: The Journal Impact Factor. Cortex, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 590-594, 2001 (This issue of Cortex contains some other papers from a forum on the advantages and weaknesses of IF.)
• Péter Jacsó, The Number Game. Online Information Review, "Savvy Searching" column, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 180-183, 2000

More about Academia: Histories, Anecdotes, Fun, ...

• Neal Koblitz, The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography, Notices of the AMS, vol. 54, no. 8, September 2007
  • Diffie used to run the “rump session”, where informal, irreverent, and often humorous presentations were the norm. There was heckling, and at one point Whit had to impose some restrictions on what could be thrown at a speaker (empty beer cans were okay, but not full ones). (Page 974, left column, Line 2)
  • Conjecture. For the development of mathematics it is better for someone to publish one excellent paper in n years than n nearly worthless papers in one year. (Page 976, left column, Line 39)
  • In 1996 I was the program chair of Crypto. ... About two-thirds of the submissions arrived by courier mail within 48 hours of the final deadline. Many had obviously been rushed and were full of typesetting errors. One author had sent me only the odd-numbered pages. (Page 976, left column, Line 8)

• Journal of Craptology - an online journal that publishes funny/controversial things and craps (but which should be related to cryptology)
• Improbable Research - Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK (The Ig^® Nobel Prizes)
• The Journal of Irreproducible Result
• Null Hypothesis
• The Science Creative Quarterly

• Eric Schulman: How to Write a Scientific Paper (page@AIR) A Briefer History of Time The AIR Universal History Translation Project
• Mary-Claire van Leunen and Richard Lipton, How to Have Your Abstract Rejected
• Joel E. Cohen, To A Young Scientist, Absolute Zero Gravity, by Betsy Devine and Joel E. Cohen, A Fireside Book, Simon & Schuster 1992
• Some observations and questions from life, collected by Prof. Salvatore J. Sto at the Columbia University

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