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criteria:</p> <ol style="text-align: justify;"> <li>Made a significant contribution to the work reported, whether that’s in the conception, study design, execution, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation, or in all these areas.</li> <li>Have drafted or written, or substantially revised or critically reviewed the article.</li> <li>Have agreed on the journal to which the article will be submitted.</li> <li>Reviewed and agreed on all versions of the article before submission, during revision, the final version accepted for publication, and any significant changes introduced at the proofing stage.</li> <li>Agree to take responsibility and be accountable for the contents of the article and to share the responsibility to resolve any questions raised about the accuracy or integrity of the published work.</li> </ol> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Reporting Standards </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Authors of original research reports should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Corrections and Retractions</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes. When errors are identified in published articles, the editors will consider what action is required and may consult the associate/academic editors and the authors’ institution(s).</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Errors of the authors may be corrected by a corrigendum and errors of the journal by an erratum. If there are errors that significantly affect the conclusions or is evidence of misconduct, this may require retraction or an expression of concern following the COPE Retraction Guidelines.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">All authors will be asked to agree to the content of the notice. An author name change after publication will be made to the article and any citing articles published without requiring documentation, a corrigendum notice, or informing any other authors, following a request to the journal.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Data Access and Retention </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Authors could be asked to provide the raw data of their study together with the paper for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable. In any event, authors should ensure accessibility of such data to other competent professionals for at least ten years after publication (preferably via an institutional or subject-based data repository or other data center), provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and legal rights concerning proprietary data do not preclude their release. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Originality, Plagiarism, and Acknowledgement of Sources </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Authors will submit only entirely original works, and will appropriately cite or quote the work and/or words of others. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work should also be cited. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In general, papers describing essentially the same research should not be published in more than one journal. Submitting the same paper to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Manuscripts which have been published as copyrighted material elsewhere cannot be submitted. In addition, manuscripts under review by the journal should not be resubmitted to copyrighted publications. However, by submitting a manuscript, the author(s) retain the rights to the published material. In case of publication, they permit the use of their work under a CC-BY license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/], which allows others to copy, distribute and transmit the work as well as to adapt the work and to make commercial use of it. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">All authors should include a statement disclosing any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that may be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Fundamental Errors in Published Works </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and to cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper in form of an erratum. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Editors' Responsibilities:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Publication Decisions </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The editor is responsible for deciding which of the papers submitted to the journal will be published. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The editor will evaluate manuscripts without regard to the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy. The decision will be based on the paper importance, originality and clarity, and the study validity and its relevance to the journal scope. Current legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism should also be considered. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Confidentiality </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Disclosure and conflicts of interest </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper will not be used by the editor or the members of the editorial board for their own research purposes without the author's explicit written consent. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Reviewers' Responsibilities:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Contribution to Editorial Decisions </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The peer-reviewing process assists the editor and the editorial board in making editorial decisions and may also serve the author in improving the paper. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Promptness </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and withdraw from the review process. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Confidentiality </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Standards of Objectivity </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.  </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Acknowledgment of Sources </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Reviewers should identify cases in which relevant published work referred to in the paper has not been cited in the reference section. They should point out whether observations or arguments derived from other publications are accompanied by the respective source. Reviewers will notify the editor of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Disclosure and Conflict of Interest </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the papers.  </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Publishing Malpractices:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Plagiarism</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Use of verbatim texts from other sources without acknowledgement is prohibited. The content of all articles must be the original work of authors and must not be plagiarized from other articles. COPE’s code of conduct and flowcharts will be used if any Plagiarism detected in a <a href="https://publicationethics.org/files/plagiarism%20A.pdf">submitted manuscript</a> or if it is found in a <a href="https://publicationethics.org/files/plagiarism%20B.pdf">published paper</a>.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Data falsification/fabrication</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Falsification is the practice of omitting or altering research materials, data, or processes so that the results of the research are no longer accurately reflected. Fabrication is the practice of inventing data or results and reporting them in the research. Both of these misconducts are fraudulent and seriously alter the integrity of research. Therefore, articles must be written based on original data and use of falsified or fabricated data is strongly prohibited.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Image manipulation</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The IJSOM encourages authors to send their original images. All digital images in manuscripts accepted for publication will be checked for inappropriate manipulation. No specific feature within an image may be enhanced, obscured, moved, removed, or introduced. Adjustments of brightness, contrast, or color balance are acceptable as long as they are applied to the entire image and do not misrepresent any information present in the original, including the background. 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