Hafidz Journal of Nursing Studies

Publication Ethics

This journal follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Committee for Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) in dealing with all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular, how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct.

All research must be conducted to high ethical standards and must comply with local regulations and standards for oversight and approval. The work described in your article must be performed in accordance with the World Medical Association Code of Ethics (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans and EC Directive 86/609/EEC for experiments on animals.

Hafidz Journal of Nursing Studies (HJNS) adapted COPE to meet high-quality, ethical standards for publishers, editors, authors, and reviewers. As an important issue, publication ethics needs to be clearly explained to improve the quality of research worldwide. In this section, we describe standards for editors, authors, and reviewers. Additionally, the publisher has no right to compromise the integrity of the content and only supports timely publication.

For Editors
1. Editor must be responsible for every article published in HJNS.
2. Editors must help authors follow the author's instructions that we adopted from ICMJE.
3. Editors can communicate with other editors or reviewers in making final decisions.
4. An editor must evaluate a manuscript objectively for publication, assessing its quality without regard to the author's nationality, ethnicity, political beliefs, race, religion, gender, seniority, or
    institutional affiliation. He must refuse assignments if there is a potential conflict of interest.
5. Editors need to ensure that documents sent to reviewers do not contain author information, and vice versa.
6. The editor's decision must be informed to the author, accompanied by the reviewer's comments, unless they contain offensive or defamatory comments.
7. The editor should respect the author's request that someone not review the manuscript if this is reasonable and practicable.
8. Editors and all staff must guarantee the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts.
9. The COPE flowchart will guide editors in cases of suspected infringement or authorship disputes.

For Reviewers
1. Reviewers need to comment on ethical questions and possible research and publication misconduct.
2. Reviewers will complete their work on time and must notify the editor if they cannot complete their work.
3. Reviewers need to maintain the confidentiality of the manuscript.
4. Reviewers should not accept review manuscripts that have a potential conflict of interest between them and any of the authors.

For Authors

1. The authors confirm that the material has not been previously published and that they have not transferred any rights to the article elsewhere.
2. The author must ensure the authenticity of his work and have cited other people's work correctly according to the reference format.
3. Authors must not commit plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
4. Authors should ensure that they follow the authorship criteria taken from the ICMJE described in the instructions for HJNS authors.
5. The author has not suggested any personal information that could make the patient's identity identifiable in the form of any description, photograph, or genealogy. If the patient's photo is very
     important and is very necessary as scientific information, then the author has obtained approval in written form and stated it clearly.
6. In terms of human experiments, the authors have declared that the research process complies with the ethical standards of the Helsinki declaration, the domestic and foreign committees leading
    human experiments. If doubt arises as to whether the research was carried out in accordance with the declaration,
    the author should clarify this. In terms of conducting experiments on animals, the author has stated that the author has followed domestic and foreign guidelines related to animal experiments   
    in laboratories.
7. Authors must provide data and details of the work to the editor if there is any suspicion of falsification or falsification of data.
8. Authors must clarify anything that could give rise to a conflict of interest, such as work, research fees, consultant fees, and intellectual property, in the ICMJE form disclosure document.