For Authors
As a global open access publisher, UK Zhende ensured all publication meeting our ethical and scientific quality standards, each submission goes through a rigorous review process, including pre-peer-review by relevant editorial board, a double-blind peer-review process by scientific experts, revision following reviewers’ comments as well as final approval by the editorial board.
Editorial Policies Overview
The following describes the editorial policies and general guidelines in the publication process of UK Zhende journals.
Most particularly, UK Zhende editorial policies strictly adopts and continuously strive to adhere to the following standards and requirements:
COPE – Committee on Publication Ethics
ICMJE – International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
STM – International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers
WAME – World Association of Medical Editors
It should be noted that editorial policies of some particular UK Zhende journals, may be different from one another. You are advised to refer to each journals’ detailed policies before submitting your manuscripts.
Authorship and Contribution
The listed authors include all of the individuals who have made substantial contributions to the intellectual content of an article in terms of the conception, drafting, and revising of the work and the acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of the data. Their approval is required for the submitted version as well as any substantially modified version to which they have contributed. Further, all of the listed authors are considered personally responsible for all aspects of the work and must guarantee that any questions regarding its accuracy or integrity—even for aspects of the work in which an individual author did not personally take part—are appropriately examined, resolved, and documented in the article.
On the other hand, involvement in the securing of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of a research group does not in itself justify listing as an author. Rather, those who have contributed to the work in such ways should be listed in the acknowledgments.
Abstracting and Indexing
To increase your searchability, UK Zhende journals are indexed by major abstracting and indexing databases. Please visit the Indexing and Abstracting page of each journal for a detailed information.
Article Processing Charges (APCs)
Manuscripts once accepted for publication after peer-review will incur a processing fee. Please check the Article Process Charge page of each journal for specific APCs.
Conflicts of interest
Conflicts of interest or competing interests, indicate the potential to influence the validity or objectivity of research. Conflicts of interest may include personal, financial, intellectual, professional, political or religious in nature. Editors, authors, and reviewers may be involved into Conflicts of interest , and UK Zhende considers it essential to identify and seek to mitigate them so as to ensure the integrity of its role in the dissemination and preservation of knowledge. In order to limit Conflicts of interest , all roles involved in the peer-review process must identify and declare any personal circumstances or associations that may be perceived as having such influence and acknowledge all funding sources for the work. Failure to declare competing interests may result in decline of a manuscript.
Conflicts of interest statements relating to public funding sources, such as government agencies and charitable or academic institutions, need not be supplied.
COIs are not considered permanent; such relationships that have ended more than two years prior to the submission of a manuscript need not be identified as sources of potential conflict. We follow COPE guidelines on undeclared Conflicts of interest.
Corrections & Retractions
UK Zhende journals will issue corrections, and/or retraction statements, when deemed proper.
Corrections
Every Paper that UK Zhende publishes will be available online in its entirety. Authors will have the chance to check for mistakes and oversights after obtaining the proofs of their approved submissions. On sometimes, a mistake in a published article is discovered, requiring the publication of a correction statement. A correction is a statement that clarifies a mistake or omission. Authors or readers may make such a statement using the journal’s online system for submitting manuscripts. The journal’s website does not delete or replace a corrected article. All readers have free access to a correction notice that has been written, published, and linked to the relevant article.
Retractions
A retraction is a statement that an article has been retracted from the publication in which it originally appeared after it was published, or that a previously published work should no longer be considered to be a part of the published literature. The main goal of a retraction is to protect the integrity and accuracy of scholarly records by retracting any manuscript that is discovered to have serious errors, breaches of professional ethical standards, or where the main conclusion has been significantly called into question as a result of new information.
Multiple submissions without the required citations or authorization, duplicate publications, false authorship claims, plagiarism, fraudulent data usage, etc. are examples of professional ethics violations. Major errors include any computation or experimental errors, whether made on purpose or unintentionally.
The editors-in-chief, associate editors, and managing editor will be notified of the retraction. For the purpose of maintaining the permanence and accuracy of the published scientific record, bibliographic data related to the article will be preserved. Most of the time, when an article is withdrawn, the original manuscript is rectified and bidirectionally linked (to and from) the published retraction notice that describes the initial mistake. For the sake of transparency, the retraction notice will include both the original and corrected versions of any statistics, figures, tables, or texts that have been changed as a result of editing the original article. All current versions of the article will stay intact if a correction cannot be made, although they will all include bi-directional links to and from the published retraction notice.
The notification of retraction is openly published and accessible to all readers, and it is permanently linked to the related retracted article.
The author(s), the journal editors, or the publisher all have the authority to withdraw an article. In each case, the retraction should include the rationale for the action as well as the organisation that made the choice. It is possible and clearly stated if a retraction is done without all authors’ consent.
Editorial Decision
The decision regarding publication may take one of four forms.
Accept
The paper is in principle accepted based on the reviewers’ comments. The decision to publish is not based solely on the scientific validity of an article’s content but may also take into account such considerations as its extent and importance.
Minor revisions
The paper is to be accepted after it has undergone minor revisions specified in the reviewers’ comments. In this situation, authors have five days to complete the minor revisions along with point-by-point responses to the comments or to provide a rebuttal letter.
Major revisions
The paper may be accepted provided that it is thoroughly revised. In this case as well, the authors must provide a point-by-point response or rebuttal to the comments, and the revised version is sent to the same reviewer for further comment.
Decline
Articles are rejected without the possibility of acceptance after revision when they are found to suffer from serious flaws and/or to make no substantial original contribution to the scholarship. Decisions are communicated to the corresponding author in a formal letter, along with reviewer feedback and any other requirements from the journal office
Revisions
In the cases in which revisions are called for, then, authors are expected to provide point-by-point responses to the reviewers’ comments, especially in those instances in which they disagree with the comments. Usually author(s) will have a certain long time to resubmit the revised manuscript for both a major or a minor revision. In most cases, the revised manuscript is re-assigned to the original Editor(s). The editor(s) may make a new decision based on their own assessment of the revised manuscript and your response to reviewers, or request a new round of peer-review.
Publication Ethics Statement
The UK Zhende adheres to the core practises of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) that are relevant to all stakeholders involved in the publication of scholarly literature, including editors and journal teams, publishers, and institutions.
The UK Zhended organisation implements robust ethical policies and standards to address any ethical concerns related to publications. Instances of research or publication misconduct are not acceptable and will result in additional penalties upon confirmation of the evidence of misconduct. These penalties may include the retraction or correction of previously published material. In order to authenticate the authenticity of the material presented to our scholarly publications, we employ Turnitin to scrutinise submissions against prior publications. Instances of plagiarism can take various forms, including but not limited to copying, submitting the same work to multiple sources, fabricating data, omitting or adding authors without proper attribution, and retracting published papers after plagiarism has been detected.
It is the responsibility of UK Zhende to furnish authors with suitable layouts that are founded on accurate information as provided by the authors.
Plagiarism, duplicate/redundant publication
Plagiarism encompasses the act of replicating text, concepts, visuals, or statistics from a different origin, including one’s own published works, without proper attribution to the primary source. The act of plagiarism is unequivocally deemed unacceptable in all submissions made to UK Zhende. It is imperative to provide proper citation for all sources utilised in the text at the point of their usage. Additionally, it is essential to restrict the reuse of phrasing and attribute it to the original source or quote it. In the event that plagiarism is detected in a manuscript, it will be declined for publication if it has not yet been published, or retracted if it has already been published, as deemed appropriate.
The act of submitting a single study to multiple journals or publishing a nearly identical study in multiple journals is commonly referred to as duplicate submission or publication. The submissions or publications may occur in close proximity or with a significant time lapse.
Redundant publication, also known as salami publishing, pertains to the division of a single study into multiple parts and their submission to two or more journals.
UK Zhende has expressed its intention to adhere to the flowcharts suggested by COPE for managing suspected cases.
Fabrication and image manipulation
Data fabrication refers to the deliberate misrepresentation of research data through the creation of false findings, as well as the falsification and reporting of results. Data falsification refers to the deliberate manipulation of research materials, equipment, or processes, which may involve the omission or alteration of data, with the aim of creating a misleading impression. Modifications made to visual representations have the potential to generate inaccurate outcomes in instances where research information is gathered in the form of images. The identification of inappropriate image manipulation is a means by which journals can detect instances of fabrication or falsification. In cases where submitted manuscripts or published articles are found to contain fabricated, falsified, or manipulated images, the authors will face disciplinary action and their published works will be retracted without delay.
UK Zhende intends to adhere to the flowcharts suggested by COPE regarding the management of suspected cases.
Citation manipulation
According to UK Zhende, citation manipulation refers to the practise of excessively citing articles with the intention of boosting citation rates and elevating the impact factor of a journal. The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) has recently published a discussion paper that elucidates the phenomenon of coercive citation manipulation, which has been observed among editors and reviewers. The document also aims to differentiate between valid and invalid motives for self-citation.
The term “systematic manipulation” pertains to the recurrent utilisation of deceitful or fraudulent methods by an individual or a collective to obstruct or sway the impartial evaluation of an academic work by an autonomous peer. This may also involve the improper attribution of authorship of an academic work or the dissemination of counterfeit or plagiarised research.
Informed Consent
In order to include case particulars, personal data, and/or visual representations of patients in their report, authors are required to procure written informed consent for publication from the patients or their legal guardians prior to the submission of their manuscript. In order to ensure ethical compliance, it is imperative to obtain a consent for publication from all participating adults, parents, legal guardians, or legally authorised individuals. This consent must be explicitly stated in the manuscript. It is imperative for authors to reveal to study participants any personally identifiable information that may potentially be disseminated publicly, accessible online, and/or in print upon publication. In the event that written consent is not obtainable, manuscripts may still be deemed eligible for publication provided that all identifying details have been expunged. It is imperative to prioritise the safeguarding of research participants’ privacy and the confidentiality of their personal data. However, in cases where consent cannot be obtained, the Editor may utilise their discretion to publish such manuscripts if they determine that the public interest supersedes concerns of privacy.
Clinical Study/ Clinical Trils
For articles in the life sciences, standards of reporting guidelines have been devised to help authors ensure that they have provided a comprehensive description of their research, making it easier for others to assess and reproduce the work;
When reporting clinical studies, authors are encouraged to follow the reporting guidelines listed below:
Randomized trials (CONSORT)
Observational studies (STROBE)
Systematic reviews (PRISMA)
Case reports (CARE)
Qualitative research (SRQR)
Diagnostic / prognostic studies (STARD)
Quality improvement studies (SQUIRE)
Economic evaluations (CHEERS)
Animal pre-clinical studies (ARRIVE)
Study protocols (SPIRIT)
Clinical practice guidelines (AGREE)
Crossmark
All articles published in UK Zhende have a designated DOI registered to that version, and are permanently published.
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