Ethical Guideline

Ethical Considerations

Statement of human and animal right

The work on human beings that is submitted to the journal should comply with the Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects, outlined in the Helsinki Declaration of Helsinki (https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/). Manuscripts will only be considered if they comply with internationally recognized standards of ethical research.

Gender statement

Cell testing, animal testing or clinical research(All research involving human beings) correctly recognize biological sex or socio-cultural gender in the paper and include the following information in the paper. 1). Ensure correct use of the terms sex (when reporting biological factors) and gender (identity, psychosocial or cultural factors), 2) If the study includes both men and women, authors should comparatively analyze and describe the results. 3) If the study was done involving an exclusive population, for example in only one sex, authors should justify why, except in obvious cases.

Statement of informed consent

Research involving humans or animals should be approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) and be conducted in accordance with accepted national and international standards: informed consent should be obtained from human subjects or their guardians prior to their participations in a study if applicable; privacy of study subjects should be maintained or informed consent should be obtained if they are in any way identifiable; and any potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed.

Authorship

An author is considered as an individual who has made substantive intellectual contributions to a published study and whose authorship continues to have important academic, social, and financial implications. The ICMJE has recommended the following criteria for authorship: (1) Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; (2) drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and (3) final approval of the version to be published; (4) Agreement 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. Authors should meet all four criteria for authorship. These criteria are applicable to those journals that distinguish the authors from other contributors.

Conflict of Interest Statement

Conflict of interest exists when an author (or the author's institution), reviewer, or editor has financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence his/her actions (such relationships are also known as dual commitments, competing interests, or competing royalties). All authors should disclose their conflicts of interest, i.e., (1) financial relationships, (2) personal relationship and (3) academic competition. These conflicts of interest must be included as a footnote on the title page or in the acknowledgement section. Each author should certify the disclosure of any conflict of interest with his/her signature.

Originality and duplicate publication

All submitted manuscripts should be original and should not be considered by other scientific journals for publication at the same time. Manuscripts are accepted for publication with the understanding that their contents, or their essential substance, have not been published elsewhere, except in abstract form or by the express content of the Editors. Any part of the accepted manuscript should not be duplicated in any other scientific journal without the permission of the Editorial Board. The duplication will be checked through crosscheck (http://app.ithenticate.com/) or KCI (https://www.kci.go.kr/) before review. 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 also will be penalties for the authors. materials taken from other sources must be accompanied by written permissions for reproduction, obtained from the original publisher.

For the policies on the research and publication ethics not stated in this instructions, International standards for editors and authors (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines, https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Flowcharts) can be applied.