Authorship Principles and Ethical Guidelines
1. Fundamental Principles
- Authors are required to adhere to the principles of academic and scientific integrity, accuracy, impartiality, and objectivity in the entries they prepare.
- The information, data, visuals, and evaluations included in entries must be based on reliable sources.
- Authors must respect copyright, intellectual property rights, personal rights, and the right to privacy.
- Plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, data manipulation, and the presentation of misleading information are unacceptable.
- Authors are obliged to disclose any actual or potential conflicts of interest to the editorial board.
- Authors must obtain the necessary permissions and provide appropriate attribution for any information, visuals, tables, figures, or other materials that do not belong to them.
- Authors must prepare their entries in accordance with the editorial and style guidelines and complete any revisions requested by the editorial board within the specified timeframe.
2. Termination of Authorship Rights
An author's authorship rights shall be terminated under the following circumstances:
- Detection of plagiarism, fraud, data manipulation, or other serious ethical violations;
- Submission of false identity information, academic credentials, or misleading curriculum vitae information;
- Violation of copyright or intellectual property rights;
- A court order or other legal requirement;
- Conduct that causes serious damage to the reputation of the publication or the institution;
- Revocation of the author's academic title or academic qualifications by the competent academic authority or academic institution in the country where the author is affiliated.
The user accounts of individuals whose authorship rights have been terminated shall be closed, and any future applications for authorship shall not be considered. Entries authored by such individuals shall be removed from publication.
3. Removal of Entries from Publication
Entries may be temporarily or permanently removed from publication under the following circumstances:
- Detection of plagiarism or copyright infringement;
- The presence of unlawful content;
- Violation of personal rights;
- Inclusion of scientifically inaccurate, misleading, or unverifiable information;
- Use of insufficient, unreliable, or unverifiable sources;
- A court order or a request from a competent public authority;
- A justified decision by the Editorial Board or the Ethics Committee.
Entries removed from publication may be retained in institutional records for the purposes of review, auditing, and archiving.