Analysis of academic norms and copyright cognition of scientific and technological journals: Questionnaire survey based on authors and editors

Abstract

Background: Clarify the connection and difference between academic norms and copyright, to provide a reference for constructing an academic ethics system. Methods: This study designed a questionnaire through expert interviews and adopted a closed-question approach. The questionnaire adopts closed-ended questions, with single-choice questions and multiple-choice questions. Publish questionnaires on the Questionnaire Star platform and disseminate them through WeChat Moments, WeChat Groups, WeChat Side-text, and QQ. A total of 256 people submitted questionnaires. Results: Among the participants, 128 (50%) were editors, 89 (34.77%) were teaching and research posts, and 39 (15.23%) were graduate students. Most of the interviewees are not clear about the concept of academic norms and copyright, especially the senior teaching and research workers. However, most of the interviewees can sensitively detect that the case has academic misconduct, but it is not clear whether the case of academic misconduct violates academic norms or copyright. Conclusions: Editors of scientific and technological journals should particularly grasp the concepts of both, accurately grasp academic norms when reviewing manuscripts, propose reasons for using or not using manuscripts, build a defense line for purifying the academic environment, and provide better publishing platforms and management services for researchers.