Compliance with International Standards and Guidelines

The editorial policy of our publication is based on fundamental international standards that ensure transparency, high-quality peer review, and uncompromising adherence to ethical norms at every stage of the publication process.

COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is an international organization that develops standards of conduct and provides solutions for resolving disputes for editors, publishers, and authors.

The primary goal is to ensure the integrity of the scholarly process, maintain research ethics, and combat academic misconduct (such as plagiarism, data falsification, and authorship violations).

Core Principles: transparency of the peer review process; clear algorithms (flowcharts) for resolving conflicts involving suspected plagiarism, falsification, or authorship manipulation; editorial responsibility in cases of serious violations, including the procedure for article retraction.

 

WAME (World Association of Medical Editors)

The World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) focuses on specific ethical issues related to conducting research within the medical field.

Its primary goal is to uphold research ethics and ensure the quality and objectivity of medical information.

Core Principles: mandatory prospective registration of medical studies in public clinical trial registries; strict confidentiality and the requirement to obtain informed consent from all research participants; a clear distinction between scientific content and the publisher's commercial interests (such as pharmaceutical advertising).

 

DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment)

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) is an initiative calling for a fundamental change in how the quality of scientific research is evaluated.

The primary goal is to move away from assessing the scientific contribution of researchers solely based on a journal's Impact Factor as the main criterion for the quality of an individual article or a scientist's work.

Core Principles: assessing scientific value based on the content, relevance, and novelty of research in each individual article, rather than the prestige of the publication; ensuring clarity and openness in peer review and article evaluation criteria; The editorial board reserves the right to require authors to provide access to primary research data and full descriptions of methods and analytical procedures for an objective assessment of the study.

 

ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors)

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) is a working group of leading biomedical journal editors that develops uniform requirements and ethical standards for the preparation and publication of scholarly works.

The primary goal is to enhance the quality of medical research and its reporting, ensure transparency regarding authorship contributions, and protect the rights of research subjects (both human and animal) to uphold the principles of evidence-based medicine.

Core Principles: adherence to strict criteria for defining who qualifies as an author; the requirement to enter research into public registries before the enrollment of the first patient; ensuring the anonymity of research participants and the mandatory obtaining of informed consent; mandatory disclosure of any financial or personal relationships that could potentially influence the objectivity of the findings.

 

FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)

The FAIR Principles aim to ensure that scientific data and related materials are discoverable and usable not only by humans but also by computer systems (AI algorithms and Big Data systems).

Findable – materials must have unique identifiers (DOIs), comprehensive metadata, and be easily discoverable via search engines.

Accessible – data should be available in an open format or through a standardized access procedure, whenever possible, depending on the nature of the research.

Interoperable – the use of standardized formats that allow different software applications to exchange and integrate these data.

Reusable – the presence of a clear license and a detailed description of how the data were obtained to facilitate future use.