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Journal of Clinical Healthcare 2/2017
GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS
Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice.
In case of describing any medical research
involving human subjects, all the authors are to
abide by the provisions of the
It is expected that all the studies involving
people are conducted in accordance with those
regulations. As far as the research and experiments
on animals are concerned, it is expected that the
researchers observe the regulations and guidelines
of the
Interdisciplinary principles and guidelines for
the use of animals in research, testing and
education
1
issued by the Animal Research
Committee of the New York Academy of Sciences.
All the experiments and studies performed on
people and animals need to be approved by a
relevant ethical committee. A statement of
compliance with these rules should be included in
the manuscript.
The Journal is run according to the principles of
COPE (The Committee on Publication Ethics) that
are set forth in the COPE Code of Conduct and
Best Practice Guidelines for Editors.
See
and
The reviewing procedure
:
At least two independent reviewers from out of the
scientific unit affiliated with the author are
summoned in order to evaluate each paper.
In the case of a foreign language publication, at
least one of the reviewers is affiliated with a
foreign institution in a country other than the one
that the author comes from.
Author or authors of the publication and the
reviewers do not know who each other is (the
so-called “
double-blind review process”
)
1
Interdisciplinary principles and guidelines for the
use of animals in research, testing, and education. -
New York : Academy and Sciences` Adhoc Committee on
Animal Research,
1
988. -
ISBN-10: 0-89766-453-1
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ISBN-13: 978-0-89766-453-0
The review is in written form and it includes an
unambiguous recommendation of the reviewer
either to publish or reject it.
The criteria of acceptance or rejection as well as the
review form, if applicable, are publicised on the
journal webpage or in each issue of the journal.
The names of the reviewers of each publication are
not disclosed; once a year, the journal publicises
the list of cooperating reviewers.
Conflict of interests.
The authors of the
publications concerned should disclose all the
financial obligations relevant to the submitted
manuscript upon handing it in. Such information will
be held in secrecy and upon the acceptance of the
article to be published, the editorial board will
contact the author to agree on the form in which
such information would be publicised.
As the purpose of editorial opinions and comments
is the proper choice and interpretation of literature,
the Editorial Office expects the Authors not to have
any financial interests in the company (or in its
competition) while discussing the products in the
manuscript.
The Editorial Office expects reviewers, editors and
publishers to disclose in a letter to the editor-in-chief
all the obligations that could be interpreted as
causing a conflict of interests with relation to the
manuscript to be reviewed. The letter should
include an official declaration of financial obligations
to any commercial companies dealing with the
products involved in the research.
The Editorial Office assumes that the manuscripts
received are original and in no relevant part were
they printed or published online. The same pertains
to tables and figurers.
Access to digital forms of data saving as well as
scientific and educational content of JPHNMR
.
The editor provides open access to the content of
the journal under
PL licence
(Creative Commons – Attribution – Non-commercial
– No Derivative Works), which means that licensees
may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search
or link to the full texts of articles; however the
licenses may use or distribute only verbatim copies
not derivate works based on them and only for non-
commercial use.
The transfer of Copyright
. After the manuscript is
accepted, authors transfer their copyright to the
