Ethics Statement

The following guidelines are in accordance with (Committee on Publication Ethics) COPE’s guidelines.

Editors are accountable and should take responsibility for everything they publish.

Editor should:

  • make fair and unbiased decisions independent from commercial consideration and ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process

  • adopt editorial policies that encourage maximum transparency and complete, honest reporting

  • guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions when needed and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct

  • pursue reviewer and editorial misconduct

  • critically assess the ethical conduct of studies in humans and animals

  • have appropriate policies in place for handling editorial conflicts of interest

  • Peer reviewers and authors should be told what is expected of them

 

Author is responsible for ensuring the research reported has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation.

Authors should:

  • ensure that the manuscript has not been published previously, and is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere. If any case of concurrent submission is found, the submission will be immediately rejected and the said author/s will not be able to submit manuscripts to HEOS for 4 consecutive issues

  • present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation

  • strive to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others

  • adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarised, and has not been published elsewhere

  • take collective responsibility for submitted and published work

  • The authorship of research publications should accurately reflect individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting

  • Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest should be disclosed

 

References:

  1. Kleinert S. & Wager E. (2011). Responsible research publication: international standards for editors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010. Chapter 51 in: Mayer T & Steneck N (eds) Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. Imperial College Press / World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (pp 317-28). (ISBN 978-981-4340-97-7)

  2. Wager E. & Kleinert S. (2011). Responsible research publication: international standards for authors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010. Chapter 50 in: Mayer T & Steneck N (eds) Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. Imperial College Press / World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (pp 309-16). (ISBN 978-981-4340-97-7)