Research Ethics

KJPS is a “Double Blind Peer Review the semi-annual journal. All the parties; researchers, editor-in-chief, editorial board members, reviewers and publisher, comply with COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics). Authors must adhere to the highest ethical standards in research and publishing. Any instances of plagiarism, data fabrication, or unethical conduct will result in immediate rejection of the manuscript.

Authors should disclose any potential conflicts of interest, financial disclosures, or funding sources relevant to the research presented in the manuscript.

COPE position (AI)

KJPS adapting COPE position against Artificial Intelligence which is as follow:  

AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements.

Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.