EDITORIAL

The online version of many journals have been contribuiting to increase the visibility of the publication duplicity, plagerism, self-plagerism, sliced publication or “salami”, for exemples. Consequentely, there has been great concern with ethical integrity in the scientific communication; and the debate about ethic of publication is drawing the attention to the scientific community worldwide1-3. Scientific and professional entities have discussed this theme at national and international meetings ’ agendas, such as Seminário Nacional de Pesquisa em Enfermagem/SENPE (18th edition of the National Seminar of Research in Nursing, 2015), promoted by the Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem (Brazilian Nursing Association); and the World Congress on Integrity Research (4th, 2015), promoted by the Committe on Publication Ethics (COPE). Many publications regarding the theme have bee