Publication Ethics And Malpractice

Future Journal of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences (Future J. Pharm. Med. Sci) is an international peer-reviewed journal. This statement clarifies ethical conduct to all parties involved in manuscript publication This statement is relied on Practice Guidelines for publication as in Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE’sBest). Publication ethics and malpractice statement of this journal, adapted from and based on guidelines provided by Committee on publication ethics (COPE). (http://publicationethics.org) Future Journal of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences (Future J. Pharm. Med. Sci) Sponsored by Pharma Springs Publication is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the publication of research papers, review articles, Short communications, Case Study Reports, conferences processing, and Editorial Note.

Author's Responsibilities: As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in Open Office, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. Manuscripts should be written as per instructions provided in  https://pharmasprings.com/index.php/fjphs/author_guidelines section and accompanied by a covering letter stating the originality and significance of the submitted manuscripts.
  4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements in the https://pharmasprings.com/index.php/fjphs/authorguidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  5. Numbers of Authors: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study.
  6. If at any point, the author(s) discovers a significant error in the submitted manuscript, then the error or inaccuracy must be reported to the editor.
  7. The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
  8. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
  9. Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
  10. If the work involves chemicals, procedures, or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must identify these in the manuscript.

Reviewers' responsibilities

  1. Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
  2. Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author.
  3. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
  4. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
  5. Reviewers should also call to the Editor in Chief's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
  6. Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Editorial Staff’s responsibilities

  1. The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
  2. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's research without the express written consent of the author.
  3. An editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
  4. The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
  5. Disclosure and conflicts of interest: Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's research without the express written consent of the author.

Publisher’s Responsibilities

Maintain Relationship: To maintain the relationship with editors and parties involved in the publication and should support the editorial decisions and should work in the way to achieve the publication goal set by the editor.

Maintain confidentiality: To maintain the confidentiality of the author and his/her research work.

Maintain the policies: To promote and encourage policies regarding journals ethics, authorship, editorial independence, conflict of interest, research funding, review system, and process.

Corrections, Retractions, Republication, and errors: To publish corrections, clarification, retractions whenever required. A publication should be done on a timely basis to achieve the timeliness of the publishing schedule of the journal. Honest errors are a part of science and publishing and require publication of a correction when they are detected. So Correction, Retractions, Republication, and errors are handled as per standards prescribed by IJMJE

What to do if the case of redundant (duplicate) publication

What to do if the case of suspect plagiarism

What to do if the case of fabricated data

If Changes in authorship