Publication Ethics
Global Academic Frontiers is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. Authors, reviewers, and editors must adhere to the following ethical principles:
Authorship and Accountability
• All authors must have significantly contributed to the research and manuscript preparation.
• Submissions must include a Conflict of Interest Disclosure Statement (e.g., funding sources, institutional affiliations, or personal relationships that could influence the work).
• Plagiarism, data fabrication, or falsification will result in immediate rejection or retraction.
Research Involving Human Participants
• Studies involving human subjects must comply with the Declaration of Helsinki and relevant national/international regulations.
• Authors must explicitly state:
That informed consent was obtained from all participants (or their legal guardians for minors/vulnerable groups).
How participant anonymity and data confidentiality were ensured (e.g., anonymization of personal identifiers).
Approval from an ethics review board (include the name of the institution/committee and approval number).
Exceptions for retrospective studies or public datasets must be justified and approved by an ethics committee.
Animal Research
• Studies involving animals must follow the ARRIVE Guidelines and provide details of ethical approval from an institutional review board.
Data and Reproducibility
• Raw data supporting the findings must be made publicly available unless restricted by privacy laws.
• Authors must confirm that datasets are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
Ethics Violations
• Suspected misconduct will be investigated using COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) protocols.
• Corrections, retractions, or expressions of concern will be published as needed.
Detailed Research Ethics Policies (Aligned with Committee on Publication Ethics )
Human Subjects Research
• Ethics Approval:
Authors must submit a statement confirming ethics committee approval (including institution name, approval date, and reference number).
Studies without ethics approval will be rejected unless justified under national regulations.
• Informed Consent:
Manuscripts must describe the consent process (written/oral) and include a template in supplementary materials if requested.
For vulnerable populations (e.g., children, prisoners), additional safeguards must be documented.
• Privacy Protections:
Data collection must avoid sensitive personal information (e.g., biometrics, genetic data) unless explicitly consented.
All datasets must be stored securely and anonymized prior to submission.
Data Integrity and Misconduct
• Data Availability:
Authors must provide a Data Availability Statement indicating where data can be accessed or justifying restrictions.
• Misconduct Handling:
• Allegations of fraud, plagiarism, or unethical practices will trigger an investigation by the editorial committee and corresponding sanctions.
Ethics in Peer Review
• Reviewers must report suspected ethical violations (e.g., duplicate submission, undisclosed conflicts) to the editorial office.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism Check: Before going to review process, all manuscripts will be checked that they are free from plagiarism practice (less than or equal to 20% similarities). If there an indication of plagiarism (higher than 20% similarities), the manuscript will instantly be rejected.
All journals published by Editorial Office of Global Academic Frontiers 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 sanctions.
Duplicate Submission
Manuscripts that are found to have been published elsewhere, or to be under review elsewhere, will incur duplicate submission/publication 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.
Citation Manipulation
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 sanctions.
Data Fabrication and Falsification
Submitted manuscripts that are found to have either fabricated or falsified experimental results, including the manipulation of images, will incur data fabrication and falsification sanctions.
Improper Author Contribution or Attribution
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.
Sanctions
In the event that there are documented violations of any of the above-mentioned policies in any journal, regardless of whether or not the violations occurred in a journal published by Editorial Office of Global Academic Frontiers, the following sanctions will be applied: Immediate rejection of the infringing manuscript.
Immediate rejection of every other manuscript submitted to any journal published by Editorial Office of Global Academic Frontiers by any of the authors of the infringing manuscript.
Prohibition against all of the authors for any new submissions to any journal published by Editorial Office of Global Academic Frontiers, 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 48 months.
Prohibition against all of the authors from serving on the Editorial Board of any journal published by Editorial Office of Global Academic Frontiers.
In cases where the violations of the above policies are found to be particularly egregious, the publisher reserves the right to impose additional sanctions beyond those described above.
