Modern Applied Medical Research
PEER REVIEW POLICY
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
PLAGIARISM POLICY
COPY RIGHT POLICY
PEMS
ARTICLE EVALUATION
PLAGIARISM
DUPLICATE SUBMISSION AND REDUNDANT PUBLICATION
FABRICATION AND FALSIFICATION
AUTHORSHIP AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
COMPLIANCE WITH ETHICAL STANDARDS
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
AUTHORS DUTIES & RIGHTS
EDITORS RESPONSIBILITY
DATA ACCESS AND RETENTION
REVIEWERS RESPONSIBILITY
SANCTIONS
INVESTIGATIONS
PEER REVIEW POLICY
Submitted Manuscripts to the Biologico are received by the editorial board and checked the managing editor to determine that whether the paper is properly prepared or not if the manuscript is not fit with the journal ethics policy will be rejected before peer-review and returned to the author for revision and resubmission. After these checks, the managing editor will consult the journal editor-in-chief or other editor, who will assign them to reviewers. The review process is double-blind.
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
Gulf publishers are a strong supporter of open science and open access to scientific research. Open access articles are funded by article publication charges, which are paid by you. These charges utilize only to a paper accepted for publication and cover the various expenses of publishing the article, including editorial board and peer review processes, staff salary, copy editing and production; electronic hosting, archiving and indexing; and related marketing and promotion of published work. We publish all open access manuscripts under a creative commons attribution (cc by license), which allows the widest possible sharing of research while ensuring full attribution for the author.
PLAGIARISM POLICY
Plagiarism occurs when one author uses the work of another author without permission, credit, or acknowledgment. Plagiarism may take several forms, ranging from literal copying to paraphrasing someone else’s work. Biologico has a zero-tolerance policy towards the plagiarism. Editorial board screened the manuscripts for plagiarism after receiving the article and if found they will be rejected for further processing. In case that a paper is already published in our journal and appears in pub med central but plagiarism is still detected, it will be retracted from our journal and the authors’ institutions and department heads will be notified to take action.
COPY RIGHT POLICY
Copyrights for articles published in the journal are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. All open access article is published under the term of the creative commons attribution license, CC By-NC, which allows to copy, distribute and publish in any digital platform. The journal /publisher are not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. It is the author’s responsibility to bring an infringement action if so desired by the author. After the acceptance of the manuscript, the assigned copyright form (scanned copy) should be submitted by the corresponding author.
PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTCES STATEMENT (PEMS)
The Publishing Ethics is an online resource management system, how to handle the cases of research and publication misconduct, which support the journal editors to handling the research and publishing ethical allegations. Gulf Publishers has strictly followed the highest ethical standards for publication and follow the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and authors are advice to follow the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) ethical guideline. (https://publicationethics.org/)
ARTICLE EVALUATION
Submitted article must maintain the all academic quality requirement and are subjected to peer-review. Research activity may be evaluated by both outside experts and inside experts.
After publishing academic research can be evaluated using either bibliometric methods based on quantitative research or expert assessment based on qualitative methods.
PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism is defined as the use of previously published work by another author in one’s own manuscript without authorization, credit, or acknowledgement and falsely passing it off as one’s own work. This is the most prevalent type of scientific misconduct in preparing manuscripts.
DUPLICATE SUBMISSION AND REDUNDANT PUBLICATION
Authors should not submit the same manuscript, more than one journal at the same time in the same or different languages. The rationale for this standard is that if two journals assert the right to publish a manuscript submitted to more than one journal simultaneously, there are a possibility of discrepancy and the possibility of unwittingly and unnecessarily taking over by two or more journals.
Authors must submit a declaration form along with manuscript submission to the Gulf Publishers Journals that the manuscript is original and not being considered for publication by any other scientific journal. It will prevent the author to publish multiple journals.
Redundant Publication, the irrelevant department looking at results into a couple of articles may also bring about rejection or an instruction to merge submitted manuscripts, and the correction of posted articles. Duplicate publication of the same or a totally similar article may also bring about the retraction of the later article, and the authors may also incur sanctions.
FABRICATION AND FALSIFICATION
Research fraud refers to publications that report results and draw conclusions based on data that are not obtained through research (fabrication) or obtained through manipulation (falsification) of data. Manipulation of research materials, pictures, data, equipment, or processes is known as counterfeiting and manipulation of research materials, images, data, equipment, or processes. Falsification occurs when a person falsifies data to meet the planned end result of a research.
Manipulation and fabrication are major types of cheating because they provide scientific data that does not precisely represent the observed truth.If authors of submitted manuscripts or published articles are proved to have manipulated or faked results, including image manipulation, they may be penalized, and published articles may be removed.
AUTHORSHIP AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Authorship indicates a major intellectual contribution to the manuscript preparation, some involvement in creating the text, and some participation in revising the final draught of the paper; however authorship duties might be change. To avoid conflicts and misunderstandings that might be delay or prevent publication of a manuscript, participants should determine who will be an author and in what sequence early in the research process. The corresponding author should be required to provide information on the exact contributions each author made to the paper for all manuscripts and the corresponding author should take over all responsibility for their work. We refer to the COPE guidelines
The corresponding author should be ready to respond to editorial queries throughout the submission and peer-review process. Before publication, the Corresponding author must sign a declaration attesting that he or she meets the Gulf Publishers recommendations concerning authorship criteria. Authors must disclose whether they received any writing assistance other than copy editing as part of the submission process.
COMPLIANCE WITH ETHICAL STANDARDS
Authors should include information about funding sources, potential conflicts of interest (financial or non-financial), informed consent if human participants were used in the study, and a statement on animal welfare if animals were used in the study to ensure objectivity and transparency in research, as well as that accepted principles of ethical and professional conduct were followed. Authors should include the following declarations in a separate section titled “Compliance with Ethical Standards” when submitting a manuscript:
- Potential conflicts of interest must be declared.
- For research involving human subjects or animals, informed consent is necessary.
- If documentation of ethical standards compliance is necessary during peer review or after publication, the corresponding author should be prepared to gather it and submit it.
- The Editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not adhere to the aforementioned guidelines. The author is responsible for any false statements or failing to follow the above mentioned criteria.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Authors of Gulf Publishers journals are obliged to disclose the nature of any competing or relevant financial interest when submitting an article. Each manuscript includes a declaration disclosing any financial conflicts of interest, if any exist. The corresponding author must give this declaration on behalf of all paper authors throughout the submission process.
Authors should avoid engaging into agreements with research sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that limits authors’ access to all of the study’s data or limits their capacity to analyse and interpret the data.
Conflicts of interest do not always prevent a perspective from being published or from participating in the review process. They must, however, be declared. A clear explanation of all possible conflicts, regardless of whether they had an impact or not, enables for alternative decisions to be made. If conflicts of interest are found after publication, the authors, publisher, and journal may face humiliation.
The following are examples of conflicts:
Financial: Funding and other payments, goods, and services received or expected by the authors relating to the subject of the work or from an organization with an interest in the outcome of the work.
Affiliations: Employment by, on the advisory board for, or membership in an organization with an interest in the outcome of the work.
Intellectual property: Patents or trademarks owned by someone or their organization.
Personal: Friends, family, relationships, and other intimate personal ties.
Ideology: Views or activism, such as political or religious activity, important to the work.
Academic: Rivals or someone whose work is being criticized.
AUTHORS DUTIES & RIGHTS
Authors should include all possible conflicts of interest in a section titled “Conflicts of Interest,” which should explain why the interest may be a conflict. If there aren’t any, the authors must state so. The author affirms that there is no conflict of interest in the publishing of the information in question. It is the responsibility of participating authors to ensure that co-authors declare their conflicts of interest. Authors should state any present or previous financing as well as any other payments, products, or services that may have an impact on the work. Any finance, regardless of whether it is conflicting or not, must be reported in the “Declaration of financing.”
The involvement of a person other than the author who has an interest in the outcome of the work, is affiliated with an institution that has this interest, or has been employed or paid for by a sponsor, in the establishment, conception, planning, design, implementation, or analysis of the work, the creation or editing of the manuscript, or the decision to publish it, must be indicated.
The authors have the option to withdraw their submitted work prior to publication. If they do, they must complete the “Withdrawal Form” and submit it for approval. After receiving permission from the Editorial Board, the author may submit the manuscript for publication in other journals. The writers have the opportunity to challenge editorial board decisions or review reports. If they do so, they must defend their concerns and include any supporting papers or proof with their application. If the editor gets to the point, a new review may begin.
Editor encourages the author to share research data that support research publication when appropriate. Research data defined to the finding of observations or experimentation that validates research result. Editors advise the author to disclose the availability of their data in a data statement linked to the submitted paper. Authors can be transparent with submit a data statement which they used data in the paper.
REVIEWERS RESPONSIBILITY
Peer review helps the editor make editorial judgments, and editorial discussions with the author can help the author improve the manuscript. In addition to the particular ethics-related tasks outlined below, reviewers are expected to treat authors and their work in the same manner in which they would like to be treated, as well as to adhere to appropriate reviewing etiquette.
Reviewer should keep secrecy of all received manuscript. They must not share the review or information about the paper with anyone or contact the authors directly without permission from the editor. Confidential data provided in a submitted paper may not be used in a reviewer’s personal study without the author’s express written permission. Before agreeing to evaluate a paper, reviewers should approach the Editor if they have possible conflicts of interest arising from competing, collaborative, or other ties or affiliations with any of the authors involved in the articles.
SANCTIONS
To preserve the integrity of a published article should be need to correction or retraction. Rectification is not constituted as disciplinary in any manner or not the direction of any involved authors. Any doubtful research practices should be investigates by the institution and does the necessary solution. Before taking any decision about sanctions, editors should discuss with publisher, mostly for legal advice, as well as the journal owner. Sanctions should be applied consistently and only after careful consideration.
INVESTIGATIONS
When the use of screening software or by the editor, peer reviewer found the questionable research materials, investigation should be required for disclosing the third party identity and the author should be inform to submit the approval letter. Gulf Publishers have a strict obligation to play in addressing potential case of uncertain research practices data fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, image manipulation, biased reporting, unethical research, authorship issue, redundant or duplicate publication and potential conflict of interest. Editor should work with publisher to consider relevant guideline and fixed on whether and how to refer cases of suspected questionable research practices, and what action to take.
ISSN : XXXX-XXXX
Frequency : Monthly
Langauge : English
Country : India
Publisher : Gulf Publisher