Publication Ethics

The Editor-in-chief shall be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and consults with other editors or reviewers about the decision to publish.

Editors responsibilities
Editors must:
have full authority to reject / accept the article, guided by objective scientific criteria and findings reviewers;
ensure the quality of the material they publish;
must disclose any conflicts of interest;
keep information pertaining to submitted manuscripts confidential;
champion freedom of scientific expression.

If editors suspect the authenticity, originality or ethical correctness of an article, publication of the last is delayed until any doubt is clarified. Unpublished materials from submitted manuscript must not be used in an Editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author.

Author responsibilities
Authors must:
ensure that they have written truly original works;
have significant contribution to the research (if a paper has several authors);
guarantee obtained permission for use of copyrighted materials;
certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere and is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere;
identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript;
disclose in their manuscript any substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the assessment of their manuscript.

Information obtained by authors privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit, written, permission from the source. By submitting an article to the editorial board, the authors agree that (in the case of publication) their text will be automatically published in the journal (open access).

Reviewer responsibilities
Reviewer must:
notify Editorial staff of any conflicts of interest that may determine their findings;
keep information pertaining to the manuscript confidential;
be objective and constructive in their reviews.

Unpublished materials from submitted manuscript must not be used in reviewers' own research without the express written consent of the author.

Conflict of interest

The conflict of interest policy was developed based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) recommendations.

For authors

The author must fully disclose the conflict of interest while preparing and submitting the manuscript to the journal. The journal editor will first use this information for his decisions regarding the article for publication. The editor may also decide not to publish your article based on any declared conflict. You can declare a conflict of interest in your cover letter or manuscript submission form in the online journal system.

The author should also include a statement of possible conflicts of interest in the text of the article. This statement can be made in conjunction with any acknowledgments and details about the sponsor. In the absence of this information, we will publish the following statement: "The authors did not report a potential conflict of interest."

For reviewers

If the reviewer doubts the potential conflict of interest declared by the author, which may hinder the review in his (her) opinion. In that case, it is necessary to inform the editor and refuse to review. Conflicts of interest can be personal, financial, intellectual, professional, political, or religious. If the reviewer currently works at the same institution as any of the authors or has been a recent (for the last 3 years) supervisor, dependent, close associate, or co-owner of grants. In that case, he or she should not agree to the review. In addition, a reviewer should not agree to review a manuscript just to look through it without intending to make a peer review and should not agree to review a manuscript that is very similar to the one this reviewer is preparing for publication or is currently reviewing in another journal.