The purpose of creating publication standards is to support the creation of scholarly work. Working with the NIH, David B. Resnik, Bioethicist and NIEHS IRB Chair, describes the importance of developing and adhering to ethical norms in research as a means to "promote the aims of research… build values that are essential to collaborative work… and help to ensure that researchers can be held accountable to the public."¹

As a thought leader in Accounting, the American Accounting Association has the opportunity to develop community norms and policies to support authors, editors, and consumers of accounting research to create and provide stewardship for intellectual property of the highest caliber.

A Publications Ethics Task Force was empaneled in 2012 to build upon the work of the Publications Committee to create the AAA policies on plagiarism, authorship, and data integrity, which have all been approved by the AAA Board of Directors and are available with their policies and procedures (http://aaahq.org/About/Governance/Policies-Procedures)   

Beginning in the 2015-16 academic year, the responsibility for developing publications ethics policies transitioned to the Publications Committee.  They developed a policy regarding citations of articles that have been corrected in the literature (such as retractions) that was approved by the Board in March, 2016.  Currently they are working on a policy to minimize the overlap in editorial decision rights between journals.  They would appreciate you reviewing this policy and providing feedback.  You can either comment to the post here (after logging in), or send an email to Terry Shevlin (tshevlin@uci.edu), chair of the Publications Committee, and Julie Smith David (julie@aaahq.org), professional staff liaison to the Publications Committee.