EDITORIAL Publication ethics: science at its best and always informative

The true doctor will be found to be a friend of temperance and a companion of truth (Claudius Galen, The Best Doctor is Also a Philosopher, written between 193–210 A.D). Academic publishing is a scholarly achievement and a medium of making explicit, both credit and responsibility, for the intellectual contents of published articles [1]. The benefit of gaining valuable clinical information on patients from disseminating the findings in printed and electronic formats, indeed on an international level, as well as the positive influences of biomedical publishing on career promotion, advancement of medical knowledge, institutional prestige, and grantors sponsorship are all well recognized. Responsi-bility for the published work that is inseparable from those merits is, however, not widely accepted