Ethics in publication: salami slicing

Salami papers are defined as those created by slicing research in as many parts as possible, looking for the minimal publishable unit. ( ) This type of conduct aims to publish more papers using the same research. Another trick of getting more publications and citations is by implementing a clearly unethical practice of duplicate submissions. ( ) Both are culpable of falsely inflating the citation index of authors, data dredging, cherry picking of data and worse, leading to systematic errors [...]