Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Our publication ethics and publication malpractice statement is mainly based on the Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors [(Committee on Publication Ethics, 2011), Retrieved from

 http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf]

Editors' responsibilities

Publication decisions

Selecting the papers that will be published in the journal is the editor's responsibility. Manuscripts will be judged by the editor without consideration for the authors' political philosophy, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or race. Based on the significance, uniqueness, and clarity of the paper as well as the validity of the study and its applicability to the journal's scope, a decision will be made. It is important to take into account the most recent laws about plagiarism, copyright violations, and libel.

Confidentiality

Information about a submitted manuscript may only be shared with the corresponding author, possible reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate, by the editor and any editorial staff members.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

The editor and editorial board members will not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper for their research without the express written consent of the author.

Reviewers' responsibilities

Contribution to editorial decisions

Peer review helps the editor and editorial board make decisions about the publication and can help the author make improvements to their work.

Promptness

Any chosen referee who knows they are not qualified to review the research presented in a manuscript or that they will not be able to review it quickly should inform the editor and decline to continue with the review process.

Confidentiality

Manuscripts submitted for review should always be handled as private correspondence. They must only be shared or discussed with others with the editor's permission.

Standards of objectivity

Evaluations have to be carried out impartially. It is improper to make personal criticisms of the author. Referees should clearly state their opinions and provide evidence to back them up.

Acknowledgement of sources

Reviewers ought to call attention to cases where a paper's reference section—which cites pertinent published work—is absent. They ought to make it clear if any conclusions or observations they make from other works come with citations to the relevant sources. Reviewers will report to the editor any significant overlap or resemblance between the manuscript being considered and any other published paper that they are personally aware of.

Disclosure and conflict of interest

Ideas or privileged information that have undergone peer review must be kept private and not exploited for one's own gain. Manuscripts containing conflicts of interest arising from competitive, cooperative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the papers should not be considered for consideration by reviewers.

Authors' responsibilities

Reporting standards

In the original research report, authors should give a factual description of the work done and a dispassionate analysis of its importance. The paper should appropriately present the underlying data. In order to enable others to duplicate the work, a paper should have enough information and references. It is unethical and unacceptable to make fraudulent or willfully false statements.

Data access and retention

For editorial review, authors may be asked to submit the study's raw data along with their paper. If possible, they should be ready to make the data publicly available. Regardless, once participants' confidentiality is guaranteed and their legal rights to proprietary data are not violated, authors should make sure that the data is available to other qualified professionals for a minimum of ten years following publication. This can be achieved through institutional or subject-based data repositories or other data centers.

Originality, plagiarism and acknowledgement of sources

Authors will only submit fully original works, properly citing or paraphrasing other people's words and/or works. It is also appropriate to cite publications that have influenced the way the reported work has been defined.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication

Generally speaking, publications summarizing basically the same research ought not to appear in multiple journals. It is unacceptable and unethical publishing behavior to submit the same work to multiple journals.

Submission of manuscripts that have been published elsewhere as copyrighted content is prohibited. Manuscripts that are being reviewed by the journal also should not be submitted again to publications that have copyrights. The author(s) do, however, still hold the rights to the published work when they submit a manuscript. When their work is published, it can be used under the terms of the CC-BY license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/], which enables others to modify, distribute, and transmit the work in addition to copying, distributing, and transmitting it for commercial purposes.

Authorship of the paper

Authorship should only be claimed by those who have had a substantial impact on the concept, design, implementation, or interpretation of the published study. As co-authors, everyone who has contributed significantly ought to be mentioned.

The corresponding author makes sure that everyone who contributed to the work is listed as an author and that no one who was not involved in. The co-authors' approval of the paper's final draft and their consent to its submission for publication will also be confirmed by the corresponding author.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Any financial or other significant conflicts of interest that might be interpreted to affect the manuscript's interpretation or outcomes should be disclosed by each author in a statement. It is necessary to reveal all funding sources for the project.

Fundamental errors in published works

It is the responsibility of the author to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher of any significant errors or inaccuracies in their own published work and to work with the editor to either retract the paper or correct it as an erratum.

Ethics Approval and Consent Policy

It is mandatory for authors to read and complete the Ethics Approval and Consent form before submitting a manuscript that involves human subjects, data, or tissue.

Authors are responsible for the content and the content in no way represents the views of the publisher.

Authors should declare that the research got approval from the Medical Research Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health or Hospital Administration in their country.

 The author/s are also responsible for the following considerations:

1. All the needed information for patients or their parents should be presented by using local and simplified terms for a disease in their common language and inviting them to be part of this research.

2. The patients have enough time to decide whether or not they will participate in the research.

3. Any patient can talk to anyone he/she feels comfortable with about the research, ask the researcher, physician, or medical staff any question about the research work sample, the way to gain the sample, and the purpose of using the sample in the present or future.

4. All authors should guarantee that the submitted manuscript is in accordance with ethical approval.