Skip to content- The journal promotes and upholds integrity, objectivity, respect, confidentiality, and accountability in research and publication.
- Authors must submit original work, avoid plagiarism, ensure data accuracy, adhere to authorship criteria, avoid duplicate submissions and inappropriate image manipulation, and properly cite all sources.
- Authors should be willing to share data and methodology for verification upon reasonable request.
- If an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, they must promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate to retract or correct the paper.
- All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial and personal relationships with other people or organisations that could be viewed as inappropriately influencing (bias) their work.
- Reviewers must complete reviews on time, provide constructive feedback, maintain confidentiality, be impartial, and alert the editor to potential problems.
- Editors must evaluate manuscripts fairly, maintain confidentiality, remain transparent in decisions, respond to concerns, and promote ethical conduct.
- Allegations of misconduct shall be investigated. Confirmed cases of misconduct may result in retraction, notification of the author’s institution, or banning from future submissions.