Policies, Standards and Guidelines

The journal's Publisher and the Editorial Board members support the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), including its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. The journal follows COPE’s guidelines, based on which the following policies have been established:

1. Policy on authorship
2. Handling complaints and appeals
3. Handling allegations of research misconduct
4. Policy on conflicts of interest
5. Policy on data sharing and reproducibility
6. Policy on ethical oversight
7. Policy on intellectual property
8. Options for post-publication discussions
9. Policy on corrections and retractions
10. Generative Artificial Intelligence policy