Igiene e Sanità is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics. To ensure that ethical practices are upheld, the journal adheres to the following principles:
Editors’ Responsibilities
- Accountability: The editors of Igiene e Sanità are responsible for ensuring the quality of the journal’s content and that it meets ethical and academic standards.
- Fair Play: Editors evaluate manuscripts based solely on their academic merit, originality, and relevance to the journal’s scope, without discrimination based on authors’ gender, ethnicity, nationality, or other personal characteristics.
- Confidentiality: Editors must ensure that all manuscripts are treated confidentially and not disclosed to anyone except the corresponding author, reviewers, and members of the editorial board, as appropriate.
- Conflict of Interest: Editors will avoid conflicts of interest and, when necessary, will delegate the decision-making process to another qualified editor.
Authors’ Responsibilities
- Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must submit original works and appropriately cite or quote the works and ideas of others. Plagiarism in any form is unacceptable.
- Data Accuracy: Authors are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of their data and must provide access to their raw data if requested by the editors for review.
- Multiple Submissions: Authors should not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously.
- Authorship: All individuals who have made a significant contribution to the work must be listed as co-authors, and all co-authors must approve the final version of the manuscript and agree to its submission for publication.
- Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest: Authors should disclose any financial or personal conflicts of interest that may affect the results or interpretation of their research.
Reviewers’ Responsibilities
- Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer reviewers play a crucial role in editorial decisions and in improving the quality of manuscripts through constructive feedback.
- Confidentiality: Reviewers must treat the manuscripts they review as confidential documents and not share them with others without the editor’s permission.
- Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively, and reviewers should provide clear and reasoned critiques based on academic merit.
- Conflict of Interest: Reviewers should not evaluate manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any of the authors, companies, or institutions related to the paper.
Publishing Ethics
- Corrections and Retractions: If significant errors or unethical behavior (such as plagiarism or falsification of data) are discovered in published works, the journal will take prompt action, which may involve issuing corrections or retractions.
- Transparency: The journal will clearly disclose its policies regarding publication fees, open access, and copyright arrangements.
Misconduct
- Igiene e Sanità takes allegations of misconduct seriously. If misconduct (e.g., falsification of data, plagiarism, or unethical research practices) is confirmed, appropriate actions will be taken, which may include retraction of the work, reporting the misconduct to relevant authorities, and barring the authors from future submissions.
By submitting to Igiene e Sanità, authors, reviewers, and editors agree to comply with these ethical standards to foster a culture of integrity in scholarly publishing.
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