Ethics

The Publication Ethics, Rights and Malpractice
The Publication Ethics, Rights and Malpractice are in agreement with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Publication ethics
Publishers and editors will take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred. Plagiarism software is used for primary check-up of manuscripts. We do not encourage any misconduct or fraud.

In the event that a published article doesn’t respect the ethics, will be retracted and the information will be displayed on the webpage of the journal, respectively all databases will be informed. The authors involved in non-ethical issues will be banned from publication for a specific amount of time.

Corrections or clarifications are possible on articles, based on letter to editor, if issues are identified. If is the case the authors will offer apologies.

Duplicate Publication      
It is unethical for authors to submit multiple similar manuscripts for publication at a time. It is also unethical for authors to submit a manuscript that has already been published or is in the process of review elsewhere.

The publication which exhibits substantial overlapping from two or more previous publications without appropriate cross-referencing or justification for the overlap, i.e. redundant publications, are accepted only if: (i) it is felt that editorially this will strengthen the academic discourse and (ii) citation to the original source is included.

Reproducibility, Plagiarism and Falsification          
Authors must report their work accurately and precisely in order to be reproduced by other researchers independently. Plagiarism and falsification in any parts of the submitted paper are serious offences to the scientific community and must strictly be avoided.

Data and Supporting Evidence
We support transparency and openness around data, code, and other materials associated with research. We expect authors to maintain accurate records of supporting evidence necessary to allow others to understand, verify, and replicate new findings, and to supply or provide access to this supporting evidence, on reasonable request.

Peer-review Process         
All articles published in the Medicine and Materials journal are subjected to peer-review. Single blind Peer-review is used, involving minimum 2 top experts in the field for each article (Reviewers aware of the name of authors, but authors do not know the name of reviewers). All reviewers involved in the journal’s work should not have any conflict of interest.

Authorship
The co-authors should be limited to those who have sufficiently contributed to the content of the work in responsible and accountable manners. The corresponding author must confirm that submission of the manuscript has been approved by all co-authors. Authors are obliged to participate in peer review process. All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes. Please make sure that financial support is presented, if any.

Conflict of Interest           
Authors must disclose conflicts of interest and state all funding sources that have supported the work.

Research with Humans or Animals
Research involving humans or animals should be approved by relevant ethics committee(s) and should conform to international ethical and legal standards for research. We also expect authors to respect human participants’ right to privacy, and to gain any necessary consent to publish before submitting to Medicine and Materials.

Copyright – Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Medicine and Materials is an OPEN ACCESS journal. All content is freely available without charge to any user or institution.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This means that anyone may:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format;

  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Responsibilities regarding third-party content:
Permission for copyrighted images or other third-party material used in your manuscript (e.g., screenshots from videos, photos, figures, tables, maps, graphics, etc.) is entirely the responsibility of the authors.

Author rights:
The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions and to retain publishing rights without restrictions.
As an author, you retain rights for a large number of uses, including:

  • the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to full texts of the article, and use it for commercial or non-commercial purposes;

  • the right to present the journal article at a meeting or a conference;

  • the right to include the journal article, in full or in part, in a thesis or dissertation;

  • patent and trademark rights and rights to any process or procedure described in the journal article;

  • the right to use the journal article or any part thereof in a printed compilation of works of the author;

  • the right to prepare other derivative works, to extend the journal article into book-length form, or to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts in other works, with full acknowledgement of its original publication in the journal.

Publication Fee: A publication charge is applied. No submission fee is applied.

Digital Archiving Policy
     LOCKSS – multiple copies – saved on different servers and backups.