Publication Ethics

RectroBIO has pledged to abide by the Committee on Publication Ethics' (COPE) and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors' ethical guidelines (ICMJE). The author(s) must be conscientious of authorship, plagiarism, duplicate (redundant) publication, data fabrication, and citation manipulation, as well as ethical approval and intellectual property rights.

Authorship

An author is someone who participated in the research and is capable of accepting public responsibility for all aspects of the content. When authorship is assigned to a group, all authors must have made significant contributions to the following: (i) research conception and design, data acquisition, data analysis and interpretation, (ii) manuscript drafting and revision, and (iii) final approval of the version to be submitted. Manuscript submission implies that all authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript and agree to the submission of the manuscript to this journal. All authors must be held accountable for the research's quality, accuracy, and ethics.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the act of appropriating another person's work or ideas and claiming them as one's own. Manuscripts submitted in this journal should be the author's original work (s).

Duplicate (redundant) publication

Duplicate publication is the act of publishing a paper that substantially overlaps with one that has already been published, without making a clear, obvious reference to the preceding publication. Manuscripts will be considered for publication only if they are submitted exclusively to this journal and do not materially overlap with previously published work. Any submission that has (almost) identical hypotheses, sample characteristics, methodology, results, and conclusions to a previously published article is considered a duplicate article and is disallowed, even if it is published in a different language. Slicing data from a "single research" to create manuscripts for several persons without significant distinctions should be avoided.

Fabrication of data

Fabrication, manipulation, or falsification of data is a forbidden ethical violation.

Citations manipulation

The manuscripts contain only pertinent citations. It is not permitted to include irrelevant (self) citations in order to boost the author(s)’s citations (h-index) or to provide needless citations in order to improve the references.

Ethics approval

Experiments on humans and animals require consent from appropriate authorities and do not break the law. Experiments involving humans or animals should be described in "Materials and Methods," then reviewed and authorized by specialists on a moral level. Human subjects research must adhere to the Declaration of Helsinki's principles and recommendations for physicians doing biomedical research with human subjects. Human details may be included only if they are necessary for scientific objectives and the author(s) receive the individual's, parent's, or guardian's written consent.

Intellectual Property Right

The author(s) must adhere to the law and/or ethical standards while dealing with the subject of the research and take care to ensure the legality of data sources and intellectual property rights.

Conflicts of Interest and Funding Sources

The author(s) must acknowledge in the paper all sources of institutional, private, and corporate financial support for the research, as well as any potential conflicts of interest.