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Editors, Board Members and Staff
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Editors, Board Members, and Staff will
- Take appropriate action to spot, look into, and stop research misconduct in publications. The methods section below provides an overview of these steps.
- Encourage the development of a research ethics knowledge and accountability community.
- Investigate claims of research misconduct vigorously.
- Make sure the anonymous peer review process is unbiased and private by supervising it.
- Handle mistakes, retractions, and corrections in a prompt, open manner.
- In a timely and fair manner, address conflicts of interest, ethical dilemmas, intellectual property problems, and other policy concerns.
- Keep a board of directors composed of reputable professionals who can guarantee the journal's integrity.
- Make the editorial board's identities and any pertinent affiliations available to the public.
- Respect the Journal's submission, peer-review, and editing procedures and guidelines.
- When a conflict of interest arises for them, the writers, the board, the editors, or the staff, take it into consideration and resolve it. Editors will, where appropriate, recuse themselves or ask that others do the same.
- Make certain that the study was carried out in an open and moral manner. It needs to meet their institution's requirements. A heightened obligation of ethical concern and behavior is implied by research involving humans, vulnerable communities, sensitive information, or non-human animals. Consent and ethics clearances must be sought where necessary.
- Wherever feasible, create clear and open research procedures.
- Keep precise and corroborated records of your study and data so that others may verify your conclusions. Authors should, at the very least, maintain documentation of their research and datasets, especially when extrapolating from substantial corpuses of literature, case law, or interview data.
- Make a substantial contribution to the completed work. It is forbidden to use "gift," "guest," or "ghost" authorship, and all contributions must receive proper credit.
- Participate in the editing and peer review process.
- Any potential or current conflicts of interest should be disclosed.
- React to accusations of wrongdoing and take part in any inquiries.
- Use the most recent edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation to cite all of your sources.
- Respect all third-party text, photos, and supplemental material by adhering to copyright laws and guidelines established by the Official Copyright Board of Canada.
- Examine the paper with objectivity, promptness, and professionalism.
- Any potential or current conflicts of interest should be disclosed.
- Recuse yourselves if they learn the author's name and uphold the evaluation process' secrecy.
- Report any ethical transgressions or inappropriate behavior by the author or editorial staff to the editor or a member of the editorial board.
- Not share the document with anybody other than those who need it to complete their evaluation.
If unethical behavior is found, it should be reported to the editor (or another member of the editorial board, if required). Academic misconduct (e.g., plagiarism, falsification, fabrication, conflicts of interest, and other conventional types of academic misconduct, etc.) and copyright issues are examples of such behaviors. There may also be other types of ethical issues raised.