What Constitutes Ethical International Scientific Writing Collaboration, Co-Operation and Partnerships in Hungary?

摘要

The biggest difficulties in research and publishing in Central European countries arise from the heritage of former socialism which crumbled more than 20 years ago. Any forms of international research co-operations, partnerships or collaborations, such as common research projects and indeed even writing co-operations as one of sub-set of research collaborations, there exists a unique possibility to focus the available resources and to generate new ones. If we examine the ethical value of international writing cooperation we should first consider what the importance of the publication is. The success of scientific research needs efficient completion of at least three sub-processes: a good basic idea (hypothesis), conducting the necessary experimentssuccessfully, and finally, successful presentation of the results. All of the sub-processes require scientists with specific and different intellectual skills and practices. If any scientist participates in any sub-process with important intellectual contribution, then authorship is considered to be ethical and the determination of authorship is the right and sole responsibility of scientists that participated in the whole process of the successful research from implementation to publication.