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The Ethical Policy and Malpractice Statement of the Journal of Health Monitoring is based on the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals [1] published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and complies with the Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice by the Robert Koch Institute [2]. Authors, reviewers and editors of the Journal of Health Monitoring should follow these ethical policies.
Any author should have contributed significantly to the work and should take responsibility for its entire content. Anyone who has made significant contributions should be listed as an author.
The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following four criteria:
It is the collective responsibility of the authors to determine that all people named as authors meet all four criteria. Anyone who has made substantial contributions but who does not fulfil the authorship criteria should be mentioned along with details about their specific contribution in the manuscript’s acknowledgments section.
The corresponding author takes primary responsibility for communication with the Journal and ensures that all the Journal’s administrative requirements are met. The corresponding author should be available after publication to respond to critiques of the work and cooperate with any requests from the Journal should questions about the paper arise after publication. All authors must have agreed to allow the corresponding author to serve as the primary correspondent with the Journal.
According to the ICMJE recommendations, a potential conflict of interest exists when professional judgment concerning a primary interest (such as patients’ welfare or the validity of research) may be influenced by a secondary interest (such as financial gain). Perceptions of conflict of interest are as important as actual conflicts of interest.
All participants in the peer-review and publication process must consider their potential conflicts of interest when fulfilling their roles in the process of article review and publication.
All contributing authors are responsible for disclosing all financial and/or personal relationships and activities that might bias or be seen to bias their work. Authors will be required to complete the ICMJE Disclosure Form [3] and list their funding sources. Published articles will include statements declaring the authors’ conflicts of interest and sources of support for the work.
Reviewers should recuse themselves from the peer-review process if conflicts of interest exist.
The Journal of Health Monitoring does not accept manuscripts that are submitted simultaneously to more than one journal. This also includes manuscripts that have been submitted for publication in a different language.
When authors submit a manuscript comprising work that has already been reported in large part in a published article or is contained in or closely related to another paper that has been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere, the authors should provide copies of the related material to help the editor decide how to handle the submission.
If the editor was not aware of the violations and the article has already been published, then the article might warrant retraction with or without the author’s explanation or approval.
Scientific misconduct includes but is not necessarily limited to data fabrication; data falsification, including deceptive manipulation of images; and plagiarism. When scientific misconduct is alleged, or concerns are otherwise raised about the conduct or integrity of work described in submitted or published papers, the editor will initiate appropriate procedures and may choose to publish an expression of concern pending the outcomes of those procedures. If the investigation proves scientific misconduct, the editor will publish a retraction of the article.
Editors will not share information about manuscripts with anyone other than the authors and reviewers. Editors will also make clear that reviewers should keep manuscripts, associated material, and the information they contain strictly confidential.
Because unbiased, independent, critical assessment is an intrinsic part of all scholarly work, peer review is an important extension of the scientific process. Manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Health Monitoring will be sent for review to experts on the manuscript’s topic (with the exception of Editorials and Abstracts). Reviewers are not members of the editorial office.
All investigators should ensure that the planning, conduct and reporting of human research are in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration as revised in 2013 [4]. All authors should seek approval to conduct research from an independent local, regional, or national review body (e.g., ethics committee, institutional review board). Study participants should have been informed about the aims and contents of the study and about data protection. Informed consent should have been obtained in writing. Authors are requested to provide information regarding ethics, data protection, and informed consent terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) [5].
Experiments with animals must comply with all applicable institutional and national animal welfare rules. Authors are requested to provide appropriate information in the manuscript’s methodology section.
Should an author discover a significant error or inaccuracy in his or her published work, the author is obliged to promptly notify the editor. The paper will either be retracted or an appropriate corrigendum will be published.
An independent editorial board supports the editor in establishing and maintaining editorial policy. The editorial board is consulted on editorial decisions wherever necessary.
The Journal of Health Monitoring does not endorse or accept responsibility or liability for any content, advertising, products, or other materials linked to or from the website, nor does it accept responsibility for the websites’ availability.
The Journal of Health Monitoring encourages authors to deposit the data underlying the findings in the manuscript in a data repository, in case there are no ethical or legal concerns.
The Journal of Health Monitoring is an open access journal. All published articles are freely available upon publication for everyone to read and download. Users are free to copy and redistribute published articles in any medium or format under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) [5].
No fees or charges are required for manuscript processing and/or publishing materials.
Date: 26.06.2023
