Publication ethics

The collection's editorial supports major standards of publication ethics of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (Principles of transparency and best practices, The Code of Conduct).

Editorial considers not acceptable such facts as:

• Plagiarism - passing off another's work or idea as your own
• Duplicate submission - submitting a paper simultaneously to more than one publication at a time
• Conflict of interest - nondisclosure to the publication that you have a direct or indirect conflict that prevents you from being unbiased in your paper
• Authorship disputes - deliberately misrepresenting a scientist's relationship to their work on a published paper
• Salami slicing - the "slicing" of research that would form one meaningful paper into several different papers
• Research fraud - which includes fabrication (making up research data); and falsification (manipulation of existing research data, tables, or images).

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