Research Ethics Council is composed of a chairperson of the Publication Committee of the Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society and the members of the Committee.
The roles of the Council are as follows:

• • Research Ethics Council is established to deal with issues related to research ethics including data falsification or fabrication, plagiarism, dual publication, and wrongful authorship indication.
• • The Council reviews the research ethics of the published papers. If anything that goes against publication ethics is found, the Council meeting will be held to investigate the issues.
• • The results of the Council meeting must be reported to the Board of Directors.
• • To promote best practices, the Council members shall serve ethics education for editors and authors Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow.