International Journal of Medical Science And Applied Research (IJMSAR) is open access and peer reviewed refereed journal. IJMSAR provide Ethical standards for publication exist to ensure reliable & high-quality scientific research publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that researchers receive credit for their work & ideas. IJMSAR follow the recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the COPE of conduct and best practice guidelines for journal editors issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

IJMSAR follows strict Code of Conduct and aims to adhere to its Best Practice Guidelines.

Plagiarism

All  articles published by IJMSAR are committed to publishing only original material, i.e., material that has neither been published elsewhere, nor is under review elsewhere. Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will incur plagiarism penalty.

Duplicate Submission

Manuscripts that are found to have been published elsewhere, or to be under review elsewhere, will incur duplicate submission sanctions. If authors have used their own previously published work, or work that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted manuscript, they are required to cite the previous work and indicate how their submitted manuscript offers novel contributions beyond those of the previous work.

Authorship and  Contributorship 

All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved all its claims. It is important to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution, including students and laboratory technicians.

Redundant Publications

Redundant publications involve the inappropriate division of study outcomes into several articles.

Data access and Citation

Submitted manuscripts that are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal, will incur citation manipulation penalty. Web citations and authors are required to include data citations as part to their reference list.

Reporting standards

Authors of original research articles should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance.  

Human and Animal Rights

For research that includes experiments involving humans, a statement of compliance is required to show that procedures were followed in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (Institution and National). For research that reports on experiments involving animals, authors are asked to indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.

Research ethics

The research we  publish must have received a statement of approval from the institutional Review Board (IRB) and, where applicable, informed consent. Clinical trials must have been registered in clinical trial registries, in adherence with local and International Standards.

Author's ethical statement

Authors are accountable for all aspects of their work (Including full data access, data integrity, and the accuracy of the data analysis) in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. 

Penalty
In the event that there are documented violations of any of the above mentioned policies of IJMSAR, regardless of whether or not the violations occurred in a journal published by IJMSAR, the following rules will be applied:

Immediate rejection of the infringing manuscript.

Immediate rejection of every other manuscript submitted to any journal published by IJMSAR by any of the authors of the infringing manuscript.

Prohibition against all of the authors for any new submissions to IJMSAR, either individually or in combination with other authors of the infringing manuscript, as well as in combination with any other authors. This prohibition will be imposed for a minimum of 2 years.

Prohibition against all of the authors from serving on the Editorial Board of IJMSAR.

In cases where the violations of the above policies are found to be particularly offensive/flagrant, the publisher reserves the right to impose additional restrictions beyond those described above.