Editorial Board, Editorial, Table of Contents

Abstract

Dear readers, we present Vol. 5 No. 2 of our journal. With this issue, we reached 100 refereed articles, edited and published by Novasinergia. We continue to grow to contribute to the development of quality science. However, the development of quality science demands that the actors in the scientific enterprise practice ethical and moral principles accepted in the scientific community. A research project's logical endpoint - at least temporarily - is publications. The final product of science is new knowledge, which must be validated and approved by the community of scientists once found in journal articles and peer-reviewed. The gold standard for credible, quality science is peer-reviewed articles. This has been true since 1665, when the first journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, was published. However, each step toward publication can be a hurdle where scientific and ethical problems arise. When these critical steps are carried out by researchers unaware of the accepted precepts that guide ethical scientific work and lead to quality science, the entire scientific enterprise is affected. Postmodernism has made it clear that humanity, particularly the scientific community, is at a stage of fragile moral development. However, we can aspire to achieve a robust morality to the extent that we become more morally conscious and thus contribute to quality science and the flourishing of the human species.