Publication Ethics

Ethical standards for publication exist to ensure high-quality scientific publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that people receive credit for their ideas. Skyfox is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and abides by its Code of Conduct and aims to adhere to its Best Practice Guidelines.  Policies on Conflict of Interest Human and animal rights, and Informed Consent can be viewed at here.

PLAGIARISM

Journals published at Skyfox Publishing Group, evaluate submissions on the understanding that they are the original work of the author(s). Re-use of text, data, figures, or images without appropriate acknowledgment or permission is considered plagiarism, as is the paraphrasing of text, concepts, and ideas. All allegations of plagiarism are investigated in accordance with COPE guidelines detailed at http://publicationethics.org/files/u7140/plagiarism%20A.pdf

DUPLICATE SUBMISSION

Manuscripts that are found to have been published elsewhere, or to be under review elsewhere, will incur duplicate submission/publication sanctions. If authors have used their own previously published work, or work that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted manuscript, they are required to cite the previous work and indicate how their submitted manuscript offers novel contributions beyond those of the previous work.

CITATION MANIPULATION

Submitted manuscripts that are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal, will incur citation manipulation sanctions.

DATA FABRICATION AND FALSIFICATION

Submitted manuscripts that are found to have either fabricated or falsified experimental results, including the manipulation of images, will incur data fabrication and falsification sanctions.

IMPROPER AUTHOR CONTRIBUTION OR ATTRIBUTION

All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved all its claims. It is important to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution, including students and laboratory technicians.

REDUNDANT PUBLICATIONS

Redundant publications involve the inappropriate division of study outcomes into several articles.

SANCTIONS

In the event that there are documented violations of any of the above mentioned policies in any journal, regardless of whether or not the violations occurred in a journal published by Skyfox, the following sanctions will be applied:

• Immediate rejection of the infringing manuscript.
• Immediate rejection of every other manuscript submitted to any journal published by Skyfox by any of the authors of the infringing manuscript.
• Prohibition against all of the authors for any new submissions to any journal published by Skyfox, either individually or in combination with other authors of the infringing manuscript, as well as in combination with any other authors. This prohibition will be imposed for a minimum of 36 months.
• Prohibition against all of the authors from serving on the Editorial Board of any journal published by Skyfox.

In cases where the violations of the above policies are found to be particularly egregious, the publisher reserves the right to impose additional sanctions beyond those described above.