Ethics in Publishing

The Kavosh Journal of Neurosciences follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) ‘s Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.

If research misconduct, fraud, or plagiarism is suspected, editors will follow the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and reserve the right to inform authors or their institution. More details are available from Publication Ethics. Please read these instructions before submitting your article.

Authorship: As stated in the ICMJE recommendations, authorship credit requires:

• Significant contributions to conceptualization and design; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of the data,
• The drafting of the article or critical revision for important intellectual content,
• Final approval of the version to be published,
• Authors are expected to consider the list and order of authors before submitting the manuscript.

Study design and ethical approval: Good research should be well-justified, well-planned, appropriately designed, and ethically approved. Conducting research to a lower standard may constitute misconduct. The authors are responsible for both the scientific content as well as the bibliographic information accuracy.

Human and animal studies: All manuscripts reporting the results of experimental investigations involving human subjects should include a statement confirming that informed consent was obtained from each subject or subject’s guardian. All animal or human studies should be used after approval of the experimental protocol by a local ethics committee.

Data analysis: Data should be appropriately analyzed, but inappropriate analysis does not necessarily constitute misconduct. Fabrication and falsification of data do constitute misconduct.

Multiple, redundant, or concurrent publication: Manuscripts are considered for publication only if they are not under consideration by other journals and have not been published previously in the same or substantially similar form. If a prior or duplicate publication is discovered, the editor will address the matter with the affected author/s and the other journal’s editor. This will be done following guidelines published by the ICJME and COPE. Redundant publication occurs when two or more papers, without full cross reference, share the same hypothesis, data, discussion points, or conclusions. In such cases, the manuscript will be rejected.

Conflicts of interest policy: Conflicts of interest include those that may not be fully apparent and which may influence the judgment of authors, reviewers, and editors. They have been described as those which, when revealed later, would make a reasonable reader feel misled or deceived. They may be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial. “Financial” interests may include employment, research funding, stock or share ownership, payment for lectures or travel, consultancies, and company support for staff.

Plagiarism: Plagiarism ranges from the unreferenced use of others’ published and unpublished ideas, including research grant applications to submission under “new” authorship of a complete paper, sometimes in a different language. It may occur at any stage of planning, research, writing, or publication: it applies to print and electronic versions. The Kavosh Journal of Neurosciences checks all manuscripts for plagiarism by iThenticate. Authors are expected to check their manuscript for plagiarism before submission.

The Kavosh Journal of Neurosciences guideline is in agreement with the COPE position statement on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in any step of manuscript preparation.

“Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.”

https://publicationethics.org/cope-position-statements/ai-author

Retractions: The Kavosh Journal of Neurosciences is committed to maintaining scholarly integrity. Therefore, retracting articles may be necessary occasionally. The Kavosh Journal of Neurosciences considers publishing retractions according to COPE guidelines for retracting articles.