Compliance with COPE, WAME, and DORA Principles and Recommendations
The Editorial Board of the Journal adheres to the principles and recommendations of the following international organizations:
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
The Journal is committed to:
- ensuring transparency throughout the submission, peer review, and publication processes;
- maintaining the impartiality and independence of editors and reviewers;
- upholding academic integrity by preventing plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification, and duplicate publication;
- ensuring proper authorship attribution through clear identification of each author's contribution;
- maintaining transparent and well-defined procedures for handling appeals, complaints, and publication ethics issues.
World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)
The Journal follows WAME recommendations by ensuring:
- editorial independence, whereby editorial decisions are made without influence from sponsors, institutions, funding bodies, or commercial interests;
- disclosure and management of conflicts of interest by authors, reviewers, and editors;
- objective, fair, and timely peer review of submitted manuscripts;
- transparency regarding research funding, including disclosure of grants, sponsors, and other sources of financial support.
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
The Journal supports the principles of DORA and therefore:
- does not rely solely on bibliometric indicators (such as Impact Factor, h-index, or citation counts) when evaluating research quality;
- assesses scientific contributions based on their originality, methodological rigor, significance, and impact on the advancement of knowledge;
- recognizes and values a wide range of research outputs, including datasets, software, algorithms, technical developments, and other scholarly contributions in addition to journal articles;
- supports interdisciplinary research and evaluates it on an equal basis with traditional disciplinary studies;
- promotes Open Science practices, including the publication of preprints and the sharing of research data, software, and source code whenever appropriate.
The Editorial Office publishes submission guidelines and editorial policies on the Journal’s website and regularly updates them to reflect current international standards and best practices.
Editorial decisions regarding submitted or accepted manuscripts are made solely on academic and ethical grounds and will not be altered without proper justification and documented reasons.
