Principles of editors' work
International standards for editors developed and adopted at the 2nd International Conference on Research Integrity in Research (Singapore, July 22-24, 2010) were used to develop the editors' rules of procedure.
General rules for editors:
- Editors are responsible for everything they publish.
- Editors must make objective and impartial decisions, regardless of commercial considerations, and ensure a fair and appropriate review process.
- Editors should adopt an editorial policy that encourages maximum transparency and full, honest reporting.
- Editors should protect the integrity of published content by announcing corrections and rebuttals when necessary and should monitor for possible violations in research and publications.
- Editors should monitor the proper work of the reviewer.
- Editors should critically evaluate compliance with human and animal research ethics.
- Editors should inform reviewers and authors of what is expected of them.
- Editors must be able to respond appropriately to editorial conflicts of interest.
We strongly encourage our editors to disclose any use they make of AI, including the use of any screening tools that detect whether (parts of) manuscripts or review reports have been created or edited by AI.
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