Ethics & Integrity

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

We adhere to the best practices and ethical standards outlined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Originality: Authors must guarantee that their submitted work is entirely original and not published elsewhere.
Data Access: Authors may be asked to provide raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review.
Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the study.
Disclosure: Authors must disclose any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript.
Errors: If an author discovers a significant error in their published work, it is their obligation to promptly notify the journal editor.

Confidentiality: Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents.
Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively, with clear supporting arguments. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate.
Promptness: Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and withdraw.
Acknowledgment of Sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.

Fair Play: Editors evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Publication Decisions: The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published, often in conjunction with the editorial board and reviewers.
Confidentiality: The editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and the publisher.
Conflicts of Interest: Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

The use of AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process must be explicitly disclosed in the manuscript.

AI tools cannot be listed as an author.
Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy and originality of the content generated by AI tools.
AI should only be used to improve readability and language, not to replace researcher insights or data analysis.