Publication Ethics

Assessment for article

The assessment of an article is totally based on editors’ observations and reviewers’ comments for the submitted article. Articles usually send for peer review if these satisfy the editors and fulfill the basic requirement of publication policy of VSOHJ. It will be easy for reviewers who work for article’s review voluntarily and will be better to improve the process of reviewing. The VSOHJ editorial team work very hard to select high quality manuscripts for review process. However, the identification of reviewers remains secrete in both situation of the manuscript accepted or rejected after the completion of the editorial process. It is the most important step that article assessment will be based on editor’s observation and reviewers’ comments about the submitted article.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism intentionally uses someone else’s ideas or other original material as if they are one's own. Copying even one sentence from someone else’s manuscript, any contents, image, tables, figures or even one of your own that has previously been published, without proper citation, is considered by VSOHJ Journals as plagiarism. VSOHJ consider those manuscripts that have less than 19% similarity index and it will be checked by Turnitin Software. The plagiarism policy is followed as per HEC plagiarism Policy as followed:

Therefore, authors are strictly forbidden to use figure, text or any materials related to the manuscript without acknowledgement. All type of information should be used with proper citation. It is unethical to cite any text of the any manuscript without reading and citation of the manuscript’s authors. Thus, plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics.

Duplicate submission and redundant publication

Veterinary Sciences and One Health Journal accept only the manuscript of the original content. It will not publish the data of the manuscript which is already published or submitted in any other journal for publication. Authors are responsible about the rules and regulations of the submission process in the VSOHJ. If the articles found submitted more than one journals at the same time may suffer sanctions. Authors are not allowed to submit the manuscript similar to their own already published articles. The submitted manuscript should be different from the published article, if they use the date from their own published article must be cite properly. Duplicate publication of same data which was published in the article may lead to retraction of duplicated article (published later) and the authors also may experience sanctions.

Manipulation of citation

Authors should cite the articles as the data is taken from it as per requirement of the manuscript and the number of citations should not increase as per requirement of the type of the manuscript in VSOHJ without any specific reasons.

Fabrication and falsification

Fabricated data/falsified tables/figures or results is a professional crime and such type of article found will not be accepted and will be retracted any time, if published. Furthermore, authors may also experience sanctions.

Names for Authorship and acknowledgements

The names of the authors should be written who have significantly played a vital role for the research of the manuscript and agreed to be an author. Authors’ contributions should be written in the manuscript. The changes in authorship can be done on the basis of consent.

Those who have contributed in the little part of the research and are not allowed for authorship, should be written their names in the acknowledgement with their permission.

Only the corresponding author should submit the manuscript in the system of the Journal.

Conflicts of interest

Conflicts of interest (COI) occur when the rights of authorships are not given to the contributors in the research. In case of conflict of interest lead to stop the process of reviewing and publishing the manuscript. It would not be good for authors, editors, and journal, if COI found may lead to reassessment of manuscript, publish corrigendum and retraction from the journal.

Conflicts of interest may be due to financial, intellectual property, personal, ideological, and academic.

Corresponding authors should get the consent from coauthors regarding no conflict of interest.

Editors and reviewers must not involve in the authorship as a conflict of interest.

Research taking part on Human Subjects

Before starting the research on human beings or the research data of human subjects, human materials, human data, authors should follow the rules of the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975 (https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/) and these rules were revised in 2013. According to the point 23 of this declaration, an approval from the local institutional review board (IRB) or other appropriate ethics committee should be taken so that the study meets national and international guidelines.

For non-interventional studies like questionnaires, surveys, social media research, all participants must be informed for any mistakes or risks during the study. All type of research involving humans, should be approved from human ethical committee before carrying the study.

The researchers should get a written consent for publication. The data of an individual must be elaborated in detail, whereas the private information of related to individual is not needed to describe.

Data relating to individual participants must be described in detail, but private information identifying participants need not be included unless the identifiable materials are of relevance to the research (for example, photographs of participants’ face that show a particular symptom). The above documents may be demanded as a supplementary data.