Ethic General Statement
We encourage and ensure that our staff as well as authors follow
COPE Code of Conduct as described at http://publicationethics.org/
General statement
Publishers should:
- Define the relationship between publisher, editor and other parties in a contract
- Respect privacy (for example, for research participants, for authors, for peer reviewers)
- Protect intellectual property and copyright
- Foster editorial independence
Publishers should work with journal editors to:
- Set journal policies appropriately and aim to meet those policies, particularly with respect to:
- Editorial independence
- Research ethics, including confidentiality, consent, and the special requirements for human and animal research
- Authorship
- Transparency and integrity (for example, conflicts of interest, research funding, reporting standards
- Peer review and the role of the editorial team beyond that of the journal editor
- Appeals and complaints
- Communicate journal policies (for example, to authors, readers, peer reviewers)
- Review journal policies periodically, particularly with respect to new recommendations from the COPE
- Code of Conduct for Editors and the COPE Best Practice Guidelines
- Maintain the integrity of the academic record
- Assist the parties (for example, institutions, grant funders, governing bodies) responsible for the investigation of suspected research and publication misconduct and, where possible, facilitate in the resolution of these cases
- Publish corrections, clarifications, and retractions
- Publish content on a timely basis
