title: Ethical issues faced by nursing editors.
abstract: This study reports on ethical issues faced by editors of nursing journals, a topic which has not appeared in the nursing literature. A survey of nursing editors (n = 88)was conducted via e-mail; this article is the content analysis of survey questions about ethics. Eight categories of ethical issues emerged: problems with society/association/publisher; decisions about inflammatory submissions; informed consent or IRB issues; conflicts of interest; advertising pressures; duplicate publications and/or plagiarism; difficult interactions with authors; and authorship. Some issues were similar to those published about medical editors; however, others were unique. This study can assist authors to better understand some of the ethical issues in publishing, can help editors to view their issues in the context of what others experience, and can assist societies and publishers to work toward avoiding these ethical issues in the future. Professional discussions about ethics in nursing publications should be the subject of ongoing research and scientific inquiry.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center.
authors.forename: Margaret Comerford
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Freda
authors.forename: Margaret H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Kearney
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000329:Advertising / Q000941:ethics; D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001319:Authorship; D016265:Conflict of Interest; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D015713:Duplicate Publications as Topic; D035081:Editorial Policies; D032984:Ethics, Research; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000941:ethics; D007400:Interprofessional Relations / Q000941:ethics; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000941:ethics / Q000523:psychology; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D017712:Peer Review, Research / Q000941:ethics; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000941:ethics*; D015714:Plagiarism; D011643:Publishing / Q000941:ethics*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D015871:Scientific Misconduct / Q000941:ethics*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires