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Research and publication ethics

The KJAN adheres to the ethical guidelines for research and publication described in "Guidelines on Good Publication Practice (http://www.publicationethics.org.uk/guidelines)."

Conflict of interest

You should disclose any potential conflicts of interest in the cover letter even when the authors are confident that their judgments have not been influenced in preparing the manuscript. Examples of conflicts are financial support from or connections to commercial preferences, political pressure from interest groups, or academically related issues. In particular, all sources of funding applicable to the study should be explicitly stated.

Statement of human rights

The manuscript related to the human subjects drawn from human should receive the informed consent according to the rule of Institutional Review Board(IRB) of author’s institute. Research should be approved by an institutional review board prior to the data collection. The procedures should be in accordance with the ethical standards of the IRB of author's institute and with the Helsinki Declaration principles.

Authorship

All persons listed as authors should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content of the manuscript. The authorship should be restricted to those who should meet any of the following conditions: 1) substantial contribution to the conception and design of the study, or acquisition, interpretation and analysis of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for the important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published. In particular, the corresponding author is the point of contact for the Editorial Office and Publisher. He or she is responsible for:

  • • Submitting the manuscript and signed copyright transfer agreements to the Editorial Office, after collecting these from all authors.
  • • Sharing the reviewers' comments with the other authors and ensuring the requested revisions are made or clearly disputed before resubmitting the manuscript.
  • • Sharing the reviewers' comments with the other authors and ensuring the requested revisions are made or clearly disputed before resubmitting the manuscript.

Originality and duplicate publication

All submitted manuscripts should be original and have not been published previously and are not being considered for publication by other journals. Any part of the accepted manuscript should not be duplicated in any other journal without the permission of the Editorial Board. Original raw data must Instruction to Authors be available for review by the Editorial Board if required. If duplicate publication related to the papers of this journal is detected, the authors will be announced in the journal and their institutes will be informed, and there will also be penalties for the authors. The manuscripts concerned for research misconduct such as falsification, fabrication, or plagiarism in reporting research results are subject to be reviewed at ethics committee meeting for rejection.

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