Research and Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics Policy

Important tips of Publishing Ethics in PHAHS journal.

1. Declare to your chosen journal that your manuscript is not published elsewhere;
2. Declare any conflicts of interest;
3. Check all co-authors meet criteria for authorship and ensure appropriate; acknowledgements made in the manuscript;
4. Include appropriate funding statements in the manuscript;
5. Show informed consent and provide assurances that participants’ rights are protected;
6. Register clinical trials;
7. Explain how research using animals is conducted responsibly;
8. Be alert to bias and follow guidelines for accurate and complete reporting of research;
9. Inform the journal if you subsequently find errors in your research
10. Sign the online copyright agreement;

According to PHAHS guidelines any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Since peer review is a blin-peer-review, reviewers must not share the review or information about the review with anyone without the agreement of the editors and authors involved. This applies both during and after the publication process. We encourage all our reviewers to follow the journal guidelines.

Basic Principles

Authors submitting works to PHAHS journal warrant the following:

1. Their article/chapter is original and free of copyrights;
2. The work has not been submitted elsewhere, and is not under consideration with any other journal or publication;
3. The work does not include libellous, defamatory or unlawful statements;
4. Proof of consent has been obtained for any named individuals or organizations;
5. Authorship has been agreed prior to submission and that no one has been ‘gifted’ authorship or denied credit as an author (“ghost authorship”).

Plagiarism

PHAHS journal uses plagiarism detection software. PHAHS requires that all research submitted to the journals or books is original and the author agrees to these terms upon assignment and acceptance.

Dual Submission/Publications

Authors are expected to submit original, previously unpublished content to us. It is unacceptable academic practice to submit to more than one journal at the same time – authors are expected to wait until receiving a decision from one journal before submitting to the next.

Conflict of interest

All conflicts of interest should be declared by the author, editor or reviewer. Examples include:
      1. A financial or personal interest in the outcomes of the research;
      2. Undisclosed financial support for the research by an interested third party;
      3. A financial or personal interest in the suppression of the research;

Text Recycling

Authors are expected to submit original content to us. It is only acceptable for research to be repeated if it leads to different or new conclusions or for comparisons with new data. In all cases, it is important to reference the previously published work. If any element of the work has been published previously, you must ensure that this work is fully referenced and state it at the point of submission so that the Editor may make a fully-informed decision.

Authorship issues

In multi-authored papers, it is important that all authors that have made a significant contribution to the paper are listed. Those who have provided support but have not contributed to the research should be acknowledged in an Acknowledgements section. Authorship issues fall into three main types:

Defamation / Libel

We require that authors obtain written “proof of consent” for studies about named organizations or people.

Unethical research

An author must follow appropriate international and national procedures with respect to data protection, rights to privacy, child protection and medical testing on humans and animals. Authors must make available all consent forms and requisite forms from the appropriate regulatory bodies to the Editor. If research is found to contravene international or national procedures, we will publish a retraction notice.