The publication of Advance Research Journal of Medical and clinical Science (ARJMCS) involves conscientious, systematic and comprehensive processes by publishers and editors which require to be dealt with efficiently and competently. To maintain high ethical standards of publication of quality science the publisher strives to work closely at all times with journal editors, authors and peer-reviewers. The ethics statement for ARJMCS is based on those by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct guidelines available at www.publicationethics.org.
Advance Research Journal of Medical and clinical Science publish peer-reviewed manuscripts based on the novelty, clarity, and significance as relevant to a better understanding of the Medical and health sciences. The publish articles in ARJMCS is a direct reflection of the authors hard work and their institute prestige and cooperation. It is therefore necessary for the author, editors, reviewers and publisher to meet the standard of the expected publication ethics and performed ethical behavior. Innovative Journal, India as a Publisher of Advance Research Journal of Medical and clinical Science takes the duties of monitoring ethical guideline at all the stages of publication. Publisher is fully committed to ensuring that revenue generated from Advertising or APC does not have any impact on the decision on the publication of an article. Again, publication of an article is not contingent upon the author's ability to pay the charges. Neither is acceptance to pay the handling fee by the author a guarantee that the paper will be accepted for publication.
Publication Ethics for Authors
Authorship Criteria
Authorship credit should be based on the substantial contribution in conducting the study. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship. Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. The order of naming the contributors should be based on the relative contribution of the contributor to the study and preparation of the manuscript. Once the manuscript submitted, the order cannot be changed without written consent of all the contributors.
Conflicts of interest and financial disclosures
Conflicts may be financial, academic, commercial, political or personal. Financial interests may include employment; research funding (received or pending), stock or share ownership, patents, payment for lectures or travel, consultancies, non-financial support, or any fiduciary interest in a company. When any author(s) has such type of financial or personal obligation, it is required to mention such potential conflict of interest along with financial interests and related affiliations (other than those affiliations listed in the title page of the manuscript) relevant to the subject of their manuscript. For all accepted manuscripts, author must declare such conflicts of interest at the end of the manuscript before the manuscript publish. Author without a conflict of interest should include a statement that no such conflicts exist.
Funding / Support and Role of sponsor
All the author(s) who have received financial assistance for carried out research work and publication should be described clearly in an Acknowledgment section of the manuscript.
Data access and responsibility
Regardless of funding source for any manuscript containing original data, corresponding author must indicate in acknowledgement section that he/ she had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysisÂ. Modified statements or generic statements indicating that all authors had such access are not acceptable.
Acknowledgment section
The acknowledge section should be at the end of the manuscript text but before the reference section. It should include the list of contributor(s), information on author access to data, conflicts of interest including financial interests and relationships, sources of funding and support like informations. Authors should obtain written permission from all individuals whose names included in the Acknowledgment section and the corresponding author must confirm that such permission has been obtained in the Authorship Form.
Plagiarism
Author should make clear that manuscripts submitted to the journal for consideration of publication should not be previously publish anywhere either in print or electronic format. Submitted manuscript should not be under consideration by another publication or electronic medium. Copies of related or possibly duplicate materials (i.e. those containing substantially similar content or using the similar data) that have been previously published or are under consideration elsewhere are coming in the plagiarism and such manuscript will be rejected on the first step of publication.
Ethical approval of studies and informed consent
For all manuscripts reporting data from studies involving human participants or animals, formal review and approval, or formal review and waiver, by an appropriate institutional review board or ethics committee is required. For investigations involving humans, state in the Methods section whatever oral or written informed consent was obtained from the study participants. Editors may request that authors provide documentation of the formal review and recommendation from the institutional review board or ethics committee responsible for oversight of the study.
Ethics for Editor/Editorial Members
The role of Editorial board is most important in publication process, Editor in Chief and members of editorial board is deciding that which article should publish or which should not accept for publication. Advance Research Journal of Medical and clinical Science this decision of publication is exclusively based on the academic merits of the evaluated manuscripts. Member of ARJMCS editorial should follow below mentioned ethical guideline.
Guidelines for Reviewers
Ethical Guidelines for reviewers