Statement of Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice

Publication in peer reviewed journals requires continuous work, responsibility, obligation and collaboration from all parties involved: authors, reviewers, editors and board members. Editors have the responsibility to maintain/monitor publishing ethics and maintain academic records. The Executive and Advisory Editorial Boards assume their responsibility to verify articles of false data or plagiarism. The editorial team's goal is to hold the publication to the highest publication standards, which implies: good quality, original, research-based articles, but also corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies, if necessary. We appreciate the contribution of each party involved to the work we publish.

Publication and authorship

All submitted papers must go through a rigorous blind peer review process by at least three national and international reviewers;

Rejected articles are not sent back for review;

Papers before being sent for review are first checked by anti-plagiarism software. Authors must provide all data sources used in the research. Plagiarism in all its forms is unethical and unacceptable.

Author's responsibility
Authors must ensure that the articles submitted are their original work, which has never been published before;

Authors must ensure that the submitted article has not been considered for publication elsewhere;

Authors must declare that all data in the paper is real and authentic;

Authors must report any errors in their published papers to the Editor;

Authors must provide a revised version of their article, in accordance with the reviewers' recommendations.

Reviewer responsibilities
Any manuscript received for review will be treated as a confidential document;

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the author;

Reviews must be conducted objectively, and observations must be formulated clearly with supporting arguments, so that the author can use them to improve the paper;

Reviewers should notify the editor of any substantial similarities between the manuscript under consideration and other published papers;

Reviewers should not consider manuscripts that have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any authors, companies, or institutions associated with the paper.

Editorial responsibilities
Editors decide which articles submitted to a journal should be published;

The editor is responsible for the content and overall quality of the publication;

Editors should evaluate manuscripts exclusively on their academic merit;

Peer review helps editors in making editorial decisions. Editors should publish only articles that are accepted and peer-reviewed;

Editors must have a clear picture of research funding sources;

An editor may not use unpublished information in the editor's own research without written permission from the author.