PiscoMed Publishing endorses the publisher insisting that all editors, reviewers, authors, editorial staff, and readers adhere strictly to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and related international publishing rules, including but not limited to: the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing developed by World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The publisher requires notification if the data of the manuscript have been presented on other platforms. Manuscripts that have been published or are being considered for publication in any other journals are not accepted. Authors need to fill out the submission checklist to ensure that these criteria are met.
The publisher requires that all data submitted by authors are true, reliable, scientific, and free of manipulated fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and other misconduct behaviors. The data and materials must be reproducible so that scholars can repeat the experimental results following the steps in the Materials and Methods section. All raw data are encouraged to be submitted to the editorial office or preserved in a dataset repository.
This journal is in an open access model and copyrights of published articles are owned by the authors; any citation and reuse require no permission but reasonable citation of the source. Use/citation of others’ research requires authorization from the copyright owner of the published work.
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviews should be conducted objectively, and observations should be formulated clearly with supporting arguments, so that authors can use them for improving the paper. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the paper.
Appeal and complaint
Submission of a manuscript to PiscoMed Publishing implies that all authors have read and agreed to its content and that the manuscript conforms to the journal’s ethical and publishing policies.
Authors should present an objective discussion of the significance of the research work as well as sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the experiments. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. Review articles should also be objective, comprehensive, and accurate accounts of the state of the art. Authors should ensure that their work is entirely original, and if the work and/or words of others have been used, this has been appropriately acknowledged. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. If a complaint regarding an article is verified, the manuscript under the process will be rejected. If the article has been published, a retraction will be posted with the reasons, and all the authors and their institutes will be informed. Authors are welcome to appeal within 14 days once the decision is received. Authors also have the right to file appeal and complaints with the publisher regarding editorial decisions, manuscript handling processes, and publishing ethics issues. Appeal emails are always open at editorial@piscomed.com.
Reviewers and editors should evaluate manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit. A reviewer/editor must not use unpublished information in their research without the express written consent of the author. Editors should take reasonable responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper. If the complaint is revolving the peer review process, the Editor-in-Chief will organize a panel to investigate all processes. If any malfeasance is found on the part of the editorial staff, editors, or reviewers, the participants will be dealt with seriously and even banned from future participation in article processing.
The journal editors take all possible misconducts seriously. The editors, authors, or readers can forward their concerns to the journal if they find out that the description in a submitted article may constitute academic fraud, research misconduct, or publication malpractice. The concerns or complaints on the possible allegations submitted to the journal will be dealt with promptly and appropriately according to the procedure set out in the COPE flowchart on complaints. Complainants may direct all inquiries and correspondence to the publisher at editorial@piscomed.com.
