Publication Ethics

• any submission to AJMP shall be approved by the Editor-in-Chief, following the recommendations given by the Editorial Board,
• editors take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred and reported; presented with convincing evidence of serious misconduct, editors immediately pass the information to the Editor-in-Chief and notify the author that they are doing it or seek expert advice in case no convincing evidence was provided,
• editors take all allegations and suspicions of misconduct seriously,
• any detected manifestations of unethical behaviour and cases of misconduct shall be disclosed and documented,
• editors will consider retracting a publication mainly if a. they have clear evidence of fabrication, falsification or unreliability of the findings, b. it constitutes plagiarism, c. the findings have previously been published elsewhere with no proper attribution to previous sources, no disclosure to the Editor, no permission to republish, or no justification to publish the findings, d. it contains material without authorisation for use, e. it reports unethical research, f. it has been published on manipulated peer review process, g. the author failed to disclose conflicts of interest,
• notices of retraction shall: a. be linked to the retracted article in an online version, b. clearly identify the article, c. be published promptly, d. state who and why is retracting the article, e. be objective, factual and avoid inflammatory language,
• publishers of AJMP shall publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.