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Guidelines On Good Publication Practices

Conflicts of Interest • The submitted manuscript should not be retained or
copied.
Conflicts of interest comprise those which may not • Reviewers and editors should not make any use of
be fully apparent and which may influence the the data, arguments, or interpretations, unless they
judgment of author, reviewers, and editors. They have the authors’ permission.
have been described as those which, when revealed • Reviewers should provide speedy, accurate, cour-
later, would make a reasonable reader feel misled teous, unbiased and justifiable reports.
or deceived. They may be personal, commercial, • If reviewers suspect misconduct, they should write
political, academic or financial. “Financial” inte- in confidence to the editor.
rests may include employment, research funding, • Journals should publish accurate descriptions of
stock or share ownership, payment for lectures their peer review, selection.
or travel, consultancies and company support for • Journals should also provide regular audits of their
staff. acceptance rates and publication times.

Action
Redundant Publication
• Such interests, where relevant, must be declared to
editors by researchers, authors, and reviewers. Redundant publication occurs when two or more
• Editors should also disclose relevant conflicts of inte- papers, without full cross reference, share the same
rest to their readers. If in doubt, disclose. Sometimes hypothesis, data, discussion points, or conclusions.
editors may need to withdraw from the review and
selection process for the relevant submission. Actions

• Published studies do not need to be repeated unless
Peer Review further confirmation is required.
• Previous publication of an abstract during the pro-
Peer reviewers are external experts chosen by edi- ceedings of meetings does not preclude subsequent
tors to provide written opinions, with the aim of submission for publication, but full disclosure should
improving the study. Working methods vary from be made at the time of submission.
journal to journal, but some use open procedures • Re-publication of a paper in another language is
in which the name of the reviewer is disclosed, acceptable, provided that there is full and promi-
together with the full or “edited” report. nent disclosure of its original source at the time of
submission.
Actions • At the time of submission, authors should disclose
details of related papers, even if in a different lan-
• Suggestions from authors as to who might act as guage, and similar papers in press.
reviewers are often useful, but there should be no
obligation on editors to use those suggested.
• The duty of confidentiality in the assessment of a Plagiarism
manuscript must be maintained by expert reviewers,
and this extends to reviewers’ colleagues who may Plagiarism ranges from the unreferenced use of
be asked (with the editor’s permission) to give opi- others’ published and unpublished ideas, including
nions on specific sections. research grant applications to submission under
“new” authorship of a complete paper, sometimes

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