Adherence to COPE, WAME, and DORA Principles
The editorial board of the journal adheres to the following principles and recommendations of international organizations:
1. The journal must steadily adhere to the ethical standards defined by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics):
Transparency in the submission, peer review, and publication processes.
Impartiality and independence of editors and reviewers.
Academic integrity: avoidance of plagiarism, falsification, and duplicate publications.
Correct authorship: clear definition of each author's contribution.
Handling complaints: the existence of open and clear procedures for handling appeals and ethics complaints.
Retraction and correction of articles: a clear procedure for retraction, corrections, and publishing of error notifications.
2. WAME (World Association of Medical Editors, principles for editors of all sciences)
The editorial office shall apply WAME recommendations in a broader context:
Editorial independence: editorial decisions shall be taken exclusively on the basis the quality of work,
without pressure from sponsors, any kind of institutions or commercial interests.
Conflicts of interest: all authors, reviewers, and editors are obliged to declare them.
Peer review: ensuring objective, fair, and timely expert assessment.
Transparency of funding: obligatory disclosure of information about grants, sponsors, and sources of research funding.
Support for young scientists: promoting research publications by authors at the early stage of their careers.
3. The journal supports the principles of fair assessment of scientific activity DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment):
High-quality assessment: not limiting to bibliometric indicators (impact factor, h-index), but evaluating research by its quality, novelty, and research contribution.
Diversity of results: valuing different types of research input, e.g., software, data sets, algorithms and technical solutions, not confining the assessment to articles per se.
Interdisciplinarity: recognizing interdisciplinary research as equivalent to classical narrow-profile publications.
Open science: encouraging the publication of preprints, providing open access to data and software codes.
4. General principles for high quality of publications ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors):
Authorship criteria: only the one shall be deemed as the author who has made a significant contribution to the work, its writing and approval.
Research ethics: strict compliance with the norms for data handling, co-working with participants of research, and in time of experiments.
Data openness: encouraging authors to preserve and provide access to research data.
5. The current principles of open science (Open Science, Plan S, FAIR Data)
Open Access: the policy of promoting open access to research results.
FAIR principles for data (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable): ensuring the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of research data.
Plan S: supporting the strategy of publishing in journals and archives with open access.
Ethical use of AI: compliance with the principles of transparency and responsibility in case of using artificial intelligence in research.
