Editorial: Cheating in Publications- Self or Others?

The ugly and abominable trend of bypassing the norms and codes laid down for international publications in biomedical journals remains unabated and unresolved. this trend is fully witnessed in the form of plagiarism, duplicate (redundant) or piecemeal publications. the authors somehow or the other manage to safely escape the barriers and filters and get their papers published least aware of the fact that they would be asked and summoned to face the charges leveled against them of not only deceiving the editorial staff of the journals where their spurious manuscripts got published but in deceiving the readership and intelligentsia worldwide.