en Related Fields Related Fields سرمقاله Editorial <p>Having considered current reports concerning plagiarisms taking place in the global science community, the authors decided to address the principal reasons, which lead to these illegalities. In recent years, misconduct in research, such as plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, guest author, ghost author, self-citation, etc. have been increasing significantly in scientific papers, proving a lack of commitment to publication ethics among some authors...</p> 203 204 http://ibj.pasteur.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-2438-4&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Mohammad Hossein Asghari Yes Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran Milad Moloudizargari No Student Research Committee, Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mohammad Abdollahi No Toxicology and Diseases Group, Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Group, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran