Publication Ethics

OMJ is committed to maintaining high standards through a rigorous peer review together with strict ethical policies. The editors should take any infringements of professional ethical codes, such as plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, and bogus claims of authorship, very seriously with zero tolerance.

Our Journals follow the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and follow the COPE Flowcharts for Resolving Cases of Suspected Misconduct. OMJs especially observe COPE’s Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers. Editors at OMJs follow COPE’s Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

 

Authorship and contributorship

OMJs has set out authorship criteria recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE):

The author list should satisfy all of the following conditions to legitimately claim authorship:

- Contributed significantly to the concept or design of the article or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the article.

- Drafted the article or critically revised it for important intellectual content.

- Approved the version to be published.

- Agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Otherwise, contributors should be listed in an “Acknowledgements” section for those who do not meet the above authorship criteria.

Policy on intellectual property

Authors certify intellectual property ownership of their submitted manuscript (and any supporting items) and that the copyright has not been transferred to others.
Authors certify that for any copyrighted tables, figures, data, text, etc. permission has been obtained from the copyright holders to reproduce.

Conflicts of interest

Authors should be aware of a possible Conflict of Interest. In such a case authors can still take responsibility for the accuracy of their paper but must inform the reader with an appropriate statement in the Acknowledgements.

Reviewer kindly contact Editorial if you have any conflicts of interest in reviewing this manuscript. We will ask you to delete and destroy the manuscript, and the editorial will assign another reviewer. Conflicts of interest may include:

• A personal relationship with the author or institution that could interfere with you providing an unbiased review.
• Financial conflict, or holding a financial interest in a product, company, or organization discussed in the manuscript
• Intellectual conflict or holding a strong interest in seeing the manuscript published or not published.

We encourage you to review the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) document on Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers. If you are new to reviewing, check COPE's resource, What to Consider When Asked to Peer Review a Manuscript.

Policy on ethical oversight

At OMJs, we focus on the СОРE definition, of Ethical oversight, namely “Ethical oversight should include but is not limited to, policies on consent to publication, publication on vulnerable populations, ethical conduct of research using animals, ethical conduct of research using human subjects, handling confidential data and of business/marketing practices”. Based on this definition, the journal’s editorial staff works within the framework of observing the ethical principles and will be obligated to consider the appeals from the Ethics and Oversight Committee for professional and scientific activity concerning the non-observance of the ethical principles by our authors. Also, we are prepared to consider other appeals in case they are not anonymous and substantiated.

Any suspected violations of the ethical oversight policy should be made to the editor-in-chief via the Ethics Complaints and Appeals process.