EDITOR'S COMMENTS: THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE-ETHICS AND INTEGRITY IN THE PUBLISHING PROCESS

摘要

Our profession has no formal audit function. More precisely, our research and publishing activities are not monitored by a formal audit process. Rather, our work rests on a foundation of individual professionalism and responsibility. The result is that ethics, not audits, serve as the primary assurance of integrity and fairness in our research process and the veracity of the products that emerge from it.