Ethical considerations in the process of a scientific publication

The publication of the scientific researches has had great importance in the society, since the main objective until recently had been the spreading of the knowledge, with the objetive of improving the development of the humankind; however, new reasons for publication have arisen. Due to the pressure of the authors to maintain or to improve their academic career, misconduct in the publication process have increased. This pressure on researchers has conditioned a great amount of published scientific articles, and as a result of this, ethical problems in scientific publication have increased. For this reason, we need to put attention and to think again in the original sense of the scientific research and its publication, taking into account the ethical aspects that must follow them. IThe aim of this article is to described the ethical considerations that must follow people who are envolved in a scientific publication, also we analyzed the deviations and misconduct of the publication process and finally, and it is suggest the ways to solve this problem.