Editorial

Over the past 5 years, the Editorial Team for the
Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (JPharmSci

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has articulated through various editorials its policies
concerning scientific ethics (January 2004; May 2006;
June 2009), its procedures for dealing with alleged
acts of scientific misconduct (October 2007), and
the actions it is willing to take against authors and
reviewers who violate the journal’s scientific ethics
policies (October 2007).

Of the various different types of scientific mis-

conduct, plagiarism is perhaps the most common and
most difficult to detect. In the past, the journal’s
Editorial Team has relied upon reviewers and readers
to detect and bring forth allegations of plagiarism.
However, recently the journal’s Editorial Team
decided to start using CrossCheck anti-plagiarism
software to detect plagiarism in manuscripts sub-
mitted to JPharmSci

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. Notification of authors about

this change in editorial policy has been incorporated
into the journal’s Instructions to Authors and on the
journal’s manuscript submission website on Scholar-
One

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.

On behalf of the journal’s Editorial Team, I would

like to take this opportunity to reassure the authors
and readers of JPharmSci

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that we have in the

past and will continue in the future to enforce the
journal’s scientific ethics policy in order to protect
the reputation and integrity of both JPharmSci

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and the pharmaceutical sciences.

Editor Ronald T. Borchardt

Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Published online in Wiley InterScience

(www.interscience.wiley.com).

DOI 10.1002/jps.22075

Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vol. 99, 1099 (2010)
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