Ethics in publishing
For information on Ethics in publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication see http://joese.mans.edu.eg
Policy and ethics
The work described in your article must have been carried out in accordance with the code of ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm; EC Directive 86/609/EEC for animal experiments http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/legislation_en.htm; Uniform Requirements for manuscript submitted to biomedical journals http://www.icmje.org. This must be stated at an appropriate point in the article.
Plagiarism
SCIRP is committed to maintaining high standards through a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies. Any infringements of professional ethical codes, such as plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, bogus claims of authorship, should be taken very seriously by the editors with zero tolerance.
An Initial Plagiarism Check is carried out for every manuscript submitted to JOESE. The check starts with a Google search which is built into SCIRP’s Paper Submission and Manuscript Tracking System. SCIRP is a member of CrossCheck and has added all its papers to the CrossCheck database. In this way, also other publishers can compare their manuscripts with SCIRP’s papers. CrossCheck is used through the web-based iThenticate system by uploading a document and running a similarity check against the CrossCheck database and the Internet. The check provides a ”Similarity Index” which is the percentage of the manuscript matching other sources. Therefore, manuscripts with a high ”Similarity Index” are examined if the other matching sources have been properly cited. http://turnitin.com/ar/login.
Conflict of interest
All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work.
Submission declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service CrossCheck http://turnitin.com/ar/login