Ethics and Consent
Publication ethics policy follows the Committee on Publication Ethics: COPE.
Ethical considerations must be addressed in the Materials and Methods section.
- Please state that informed consent was obtained from all human adult participants and from the parents or legal guardians of minors. Include the name of the appropriate institutional review board that approved the project.
- Indicate in the text that the maintenance and care of experimental animals complies with National Institutes of Health guidelines for the humane use of laboratory animals, or those of your Institute or agency.
Consent for Publication
Publication of any personal information about a patient will require the consent of the patient or full permission for the publication.
The patients should give their consent for images or other clinical information relating to their case to be reported in a medical publication.
Authorship
An 'author' is generally considered to be someone who has made substantive intellectual contributions to a published study. According to the ICMJE guidelines, to qualify as an author one should have:
- Made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
- Been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
- Given final approval of the version to be published. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content; and
- Agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Changes in authorship
Changes to authorship cannot be made after acceptance of a manuscript. So the authors wishing to make changes to authorship can write a letter to the journal for change of authorship.
Duplicate Publication
Duplicate publication refers to publishing the same intellectual material more than once, by the author. Authors should not submit the same manuscript, in the same or different languages, simultaneously to more than one journal. In this journal republication is not permitted at all.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is when a person steals content belonging to someone else and passes it off as their own.
In plagiarism, all authors are responsible.
For Iranian authors, editorial board reporting the name of the authors to the Iranian Medical Journal and report the plagiarism.
For non-Iranian authors, editorial board reporting the name of the authors to the Affiliated University.
This journal takes plagiarism seriously, and the penalties can be severe.
Confidentiality
Reviewers are therefore required to respect the confidentiality of the peer review process and not reveal any details of a manuscript or its review, during or after the peer-review process.
Conflicts of interest
Authors must acknowledge and declare any sources of funding and potential conflicting interest, such as receiving funds or fees by, or holding stocks and shares in, an organization that may profit or lose through publication of your paper. Declaring a competing interest will not lead to automatic rejection of the paper, but we would like to be made aware of it.
