https://journals.umt.edu.pk/index.php/BSR <p style="text-align: justify;">BioScientific Review (BSR) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal published on a quarterly basis. It provides a modern and multidisciplinary platform for free and fast publications broadly covering all aspects of life sciences. Research in the field of life sciences has grown at a bewildering pace during the last decade and BSR intends to publish momentous advances in all specialized areas of life sciences and bring them to light.&nbsp;</p> School of Science, University of Management & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan en-US BioScientific Review 2663-4198 <p style="text-align: justify;"><em>BSR</em>&nbsp;follows an open-access publishing policy and full text of all published articles is available free, immediately upon publication of an issue. The journal’s contents are published and distributed under the terms of the&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</a>&nbsp;(<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY 4.0</a>) license. Thus, the work submitted to the journal implies that it is original, unpublished work of the authors (neither published previously nor accepted/under consideration for publication elsewhere). On acceptance of a manuscript for publication, a corresponding author on the behalf of all co-authors of the manuscript will sign and submit a completed&nbsp;the&nbsp;Copyright and Author Consent Form.</p> https://journals.umt.edu.pk/index.php/BSR/article/view/7482 <p>Autonomy, justice, and beneficence are the principles which inform the spirit of scientific research. Further, integrity and ethics are essential pillars of research, followed by respect, transparency, and accountability. This letter to the editor highlights the importance of integrity and ethics in research. It also sheds light on the misconduct related to scientific research writing. Integrity and ethics are important aspects in research and scientific writings. Various international standards are to be followed in biological, clinical, and health sciences research, such as the Declaration of Helsinki and FAIR principles. Scientific journals and publishers strictly ask authors and researchers to follow guidelines and ensure that issues and challenges related to misconduct are overcome. Authors are asked to declare all details related to the patients’ or participants’ informed consent form, integrity of data, authorship criteria, and conflict of interest declaration statement. Currently, it is observed that plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification are the most common misconducts during research writing, undermining the credibility of scientific writing. Public trust can be obtained by following the ethical rules and regulations related to research integrity which, in turn, would definitely improve the overall quality of scientific writing.</p> Muhammad Ali Noor Kamil Hafiz Muhammad Mazhar Asjad Sana Ejaz Copyright (c) 2025 Muhammad Ali, Noor Kamil, Hafiz Muhammad Mazhar Asjad, Sana Ejaz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2025-11-03 2025-11-03 7 4 01 06 10.32350/bsr.74.01