POLICIES AND ETHICS

General

JOMR is following "Editorial Policy Statements" of the Council of Science Editors (CSE) that covers the responsibilities and rights of Editors of peer-reviewed journals.

JOMR adheres to the ethical guidelines for publication and research that follow the international standards and best practice guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME), as well the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Authorship

Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that the article have been read and approved by all authors and that all authors agree to the submission of the article to the Journal. All named authors must have made an active contribution to the conception and design and/or analysis and interpretation of the data and/or the drafting of the paper and all must have critically reviewed its content and have approved the final version submitted for publication. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship.

JOMR adheres to the definition of authorship set up by The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). According to the ICMJE authorship criteria should be based on:

1) Substantial contributions to conception and design of, or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data.

2) Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content.

3) Final approval of the version to be published.

Authors should meet conditions 1, 2 and 3.

Ethical Approvals

a) Experimentation involving human subjects

Ethical Approval Statement

Experimentation involving human subjects will only be published if such research has been conducted in full accordance with ethical principles, including the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (1964), last updated in 2013) and the additional requirements, if any, of the country where the research has been carried out. Articles must be accompanied by a statement that the experiments were undertaken with the understanding and written consent of each subject and according to the above mentioned principles.

• A statement regarding the fact that the study has been independently reviewed and approved by the local Institutional Review Board (IRB) or other appropriate ethics committee with reference/permit number must be included in the Method and Materials section.
• If this study was not approved by IRB or the appropriate ethics committee, include a statement as to why it was exempt.

If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study.

Clinical Trials Registration

ICMJE defines clinical trials as any research project that prospectively assigns people or a group of people to an intervention, with or without concurrent comparison or control groups, to study the cause-and-effect relationship between a health-related intervention and a health outcome. Health-related interventions include, but are not limited to, those used to modify a biomedical or health-related outcome; examples include drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioral treatments, educational programs, dietary interventions, quality improvement interventions, and process-of-care changes.

In accordance with ICMJE recommendation on trial registration, all clinical trials must be registered with a public trials registry before the time of first patient enrollment.

1. Clinical trials must be registered prospectively – before the beginning of patient recruitment.
2. The trial registry name, date and unique registration number must be included in the Method and Materials at the submission stage.
3. Clinical trials must be registered in the public clinical trial registry approved by the WHO and ICMJE.

A list of eligible registries can be found at the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP). Trials can also be registered at Clinical Trials.gov or the EU Clinical Trials Register.

For further information about clinical trial registration please see:

https://grants.nih.gov/policy/clinical-trials/definition.htm

https://www.icmje.org/about-icmje/faqs/clinical-trials-registration/

https://www.who.int/clinical-trials-registry-platform

NOTE: Following ICMJE policy on clinical trial registration, JOMR will not consider reports of clinical trials that were not registered in a public trials' registry.

b) Experimentation involving animals

When experimental animals are used the methods section must clearly indicate that adequate measures were taken to minimize pain or discomfort. Experiments should be carried out in accordance with the Guidelines by the National Institute of Health (NIH) in the USA regarding the care and use of animals for experimental procedures or with the European Communities Council Directive of 24 November 1986 (86/609/EEC) and in accordance with local laws and regulations.

A statement regarding the fact that the study has been independently reviewed and approved by an ethical board should also be included in the Method and Materials section.

When reporting experiments on animals, authors should be asked to indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.

Authors must provide a full description of their anesthetics and surgical procedures.

c) Studies involving the participation of vulnerable populations

Written informed consent must be obtained, if manuscript includes interviews, images or other sensitive contexts disclosing details relating to individual participants.

All studies involving individuals, who are at higher risk of mistreatment or harm (patients who are racial or ethnic minorities, children, and elderly, socioeconomically disadvantaged, underinsured or those with certain medical conditions), will also require written informed consent.

Participants who are not able to provide full informed consent themselves, a written informed consent must be obtained from the parent, legal guardian or next of kin.

A statement to confirm informed consent has been obtained must be included within the Method and Materials section.

In case, where verbal informed consent has been obtained rather than written informed consent, this must be explained and stated within the Method and Materials section.

NOTE: Editor reserve the right to reject papers if non appropriate procedures have been used.

Permissions and Waivers

a) Permissions

Permission of author and publisher must be obtained for the direct use of material (text, photos, and drawings) under copyright that does not belong to the author.

b) Waivers

Waivers must be obtained for photographs showing persons. When such waivers are not supplied, faces will be masked to prevent identification.

Permissions and waivers should be emailed along with the Mandatory Submission Form to the Editorial Assistant.

Duplicate publication

All submissions must be an account of new, original research. Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that the work and its essential substance have not been published before and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Therefore the Mandatory Submission Form must be signed by all authors and emailed to Editorial Assistant (info@ejomr.org).

Submitting identical manuscripts to more than one journal at a time is generally considered unethical. Multiple submissions duplicate or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected.

The submission of the article by the authors means that the authors automatically agree to assign copyright to JOMR if and when the article is accepted for publication.

Assignment of the copyright is a condition of article publication.

Anti-Plagiarism Policy

JOMR has a very strict anti-plagiarism policy. It is an illegal form of copying and a serious offence. The academic work is supposed to be original and thus should be published only once.

Examples of plagiarism:

- Copying and pasting from the Internet and posting somewhere else without proper citation;

- Putting your name on another person's essay or project;

- Copying exact wording from another person's text;

- Using another person's photo, diagram, tables or ideas without proper citation;

- Presenting research in your own words without providing references;

- Purchasing another person's text and using it as your own;

- Presenting ideas in the same format and order as your research source.

By submitting article to JOMR, Authors and Co-authors certify that:

- Authors are fully aware that plagiarism is illegal and wrong and authors know that plagiarism is the use of another person's idea or published work and to pretend that it is one's own.

- Authors declare that each contribution to their article or project has been acknowledged and source of information from other peoples' published or unpublished works have been cited referenced.

- Author(s) certify that they/you are solely responsible for text of the article and work included in the article along with any incomplete reference.

- Authors are fully aware that plagiarism is illegal and wrong and authors know that plagiarism is the use of another person's idea or published work and to pretend that it is one's own.

- Authors declare that each contribution to their article or project has been acknowledged and source of information from other peoples' published or unpublished works have been cited referenced.

- Author(s) certify that they/you are solely responsible for text of the article and work included in the article along with any incomplete reference.