Editorial policies
Editorial Policies
These are the rules the journal holds itself and its authors to. They govern how a manuscript is assessed, who is accountable for it, and what happens when the published record has to be corrected.
- ISSN 2374-9431
- Publisher Open Access Pub
- Access Open access
- Review Peer-reviewed
Peer review
Review is the journal’s core obligation to its readers. These terms apply to every submission.
- Screening
- All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
- Review model
- Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
- Reviewers
- Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
- Decisions
- Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
When double-blind review is requested, editors must ensure that author-identifying information is not shared with reviewers.
Authorship, conflicts and declarations
Accountability for a paper has to be attributable to named people before it is published, not afterwards.
- Authorship
- Authorship is limited to those who made a substantial contribution to the work and who approve the version submitted. Everyone who meets that standard is listed; no one who does not is added.
- Changes to authorship
- Any addition, removal or reordering after submission requires the written agreement of all authors and the editor’s approval.
- Competing interests
- Authors, editors and reviewers declare financial and non-financial interests that a reader could reasonably consider relevant. A declaration is published with the article.
- Funding
- Funding sources and grant identifiers are stated in the manuscript, along with the role of any funder in the study.
- Data availability
- Every empirical research manuscript must include a data-availability statement.
- Originality
- Submissions must be original and not under consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts are screened for text similarity, and a report is read in context by the editor rather than applied as an automatic threshold.
Research involving people and animals
Approval and consent are conditions of publication, and the manuscript has to record them.
- Human participants
- Studies involving people require approval from a named research-ethics committee or institutional review board, and informed consent from participants. The manuscript states both, with the approval reference.
- Clinical trials
- Interventional clinical trials must be registered in an accepted public trial registry at or before the first participant provides consent for enrollment. The registry name, registration number, and registration date must be reported in the manuscript.
- Identifiable material
- Written consent is required before any image, case detail or dataset from which an individual could be identified is published.
- Animal studies
- Studies in animals require institutional approval and a statement of the guidelines followed, together with species, strain, housing, sample size and the procedures used.
- Artificial intelligence
- Authors disclose any use of generative AI in preparing a manuscript and remain responsible for the content. AI systems are not listed as authors.
Editorial independence
The decision on a manuscript belongs to the editors, and to nothing else.
Independent of payment and role
Editorial decisions are independent of fees, membership, editorial or reviewer roles, and any paid service the publisher offers.
Recusal
Editors recuse themselves from decisions on their own submissions and from any manuscript where they hold a competing interest; those manuscripts are handled independently.
Confidentiality
A submitted manuscript is confidential. It is shared only with the people needed to assess it, and it is not used for any other purpose before publication.
Appeals and concerns
Authors may appeal a decision in writing to the editorial office, setting out the grounds. Concerns about a published article are investigated with the authors and their institution where appropriate.
Corrections, retractions and the record
What is published stays published, and what changes is recorded where the reader will find it.
- Corrections
- An error that affects the record is corrected by a linked correction notice; the original article remains available.
- Retractions
- Where findings are unreliable or publication ethics were breached, the article is retracted with a notice that states the reason and who requested it. The article itself is retained and marked.
- Expressions of concern
- Where a concern is credible but unresolved, an expression of concern is published and updated when the matter is settled.
- Preservation and access
- Accepted work is published open access and deposited with the publisher’s preservation and identifier services. See Indexing and preservation.
Withdrawal before publication is governed by the terms on the Article Processing Charges page.
Journal of Bioinformatics and Diabetes · ISSN 2374-9431 · Published by Open Access Pub.
Digital preservation
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