Ethics Policy

This statement is based on the Best Practice Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for Journal Editors.

The Ivy Enber Scientific Journal is committed to ethics, good practices, and the quality of its publications. Ethical standards of conduct are expected from all parties involved in the publication process, including Authors, Reviewers, Managing Editors, Scientific Editors, Interns, Systems Editors, and the Editorial Board.

Research Ethics

Research Involving Human Subjects

Research involving human participants, human material, human tissues, or human data must declare that investigations were conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975. At a minimum, a statement including the project identification code, the date of approval by the Ethics Committee, and the name of the ethics committee or institutional review board must be provided in the manuscript section. ( https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/ )

For non-interventional studies, such as surveys, questionnaires, and social media research, all participants must be fully informed whether anonymity is guaranteed, why the research is being conducted, how their data will be used, and whether any risks are involved. As with all research involving human beings, ethical approval from an appropriate ethics committee must be obtained before conducting the study.

Written informed consent for publication must be obtained from participating patients. Data relating to individual participants must be described, but private identifying information does not need to be included unless identifiable materials are relevant to the research, such as photographs of participants’ faces showing a specific symptom. Patients’ initials or other personal identifiers must not appear in any image. For manuscripts including case details, personal information, and/or patient images, authors must obtain signed informed consent from patients before submission to the journal. Patient details should be anonymized whenever possible, for example, avoiding mention of specific age, ethnicity, or occupation when not relevant to the conclusions. Editors reserve the right to reject any submission that does not comply with these requirements.

If the study reports research involving vulnerable groups, additional verification may be performed. The submitted manuscript will be examined by the editorial office and, upon request, documentary evidence must be provided. Furthermore, when studies describe groups by race, ethnicity, gender, disability, disease, or similar characteristics, an explanation of why such categorization was necessary must be clearly stated in the article.

Editors’ Responsibilities

Publication Decision: The journal editor is responsible for deciding which submitted articles should proceed to double-blind peer review and, if approved, to publication. The editor is guided by the journal’s editorial policies and limited by applicable legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editor may consult the editorial board or reviewers in making decisions.

Fair Play: The editor must evaluate manuscripts based on their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality: The editor and editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: The editor must not use unpublished information disclosed in a submitted manuscript in their own research without the author’s express written consent. Editors must recuse themselves from handling manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the work.

Reviewers’ Responsibilities

Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and may also help authors improve their manuscripts through editorial communication.

Promptness: Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to review the reported research or knows that prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and withdraw from the review process.

Confidentiality: All manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents and must not be shown to or discussed with others.

Standards of Objectivity: Reviews must be conducted objectively, and reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgment of Sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work not cited by the authors. They should also inform the editor of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper known personally to them.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not evaluate manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Authors’ Responsibilities

Reporting Standards: Authors of original research reports should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be accurately represented in the manuscript. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to allow replication by others. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original works and that, where the work and/or words of others have been used, these have been appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical editorial behavior and is unacceptable.

Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: Authors should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Simultaneous submission of the same manuscript to multiple journals and/or publication of the same article in different journals constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgment of Sources: Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that influenced the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately, such as through conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit written permission from the source. Information obtained during confidential services, such as manuscript review or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author involved.

Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who made significant contributions to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All individuals who made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Others who participated in substantive aspects of the research project should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author must ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included, that no inappropriate co-authors are listed, and that all co-authors have reviewed and approved the final version of the paper and agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors must disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that could influence the results or interpretation of the manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project must also be disclosed.

Fundamental Errors in Published Works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.