Ethical Guidelines
Copyright Notice
The author grants the PHEMM Journal the right of first publication of the work. Copyright of any article published by the PHEMM Journal is retained by the author without restriction. For works with multiple authors, the responsible/corresponding author agrees and has permission from co-authors to make decisions regarding the prior disclosure of information from the work to the media, government agencies, or both.
When the author submits the manuscript along with the author's declaration form (letter of intent) to the editorial office in electronic format, the manuscript is registered online through the editorial copyright section and means that the manuscript is placed in accordance with the copyright agreement of the publisher and the author legally assigned by the publisher. This process protects the author, as well as the publisher, and allows for the coordination of permissions for reprints, post-prints, or other uses.
In accordance with these rules, the author retains ownership of the copyright and other rights. Authors are able to enter into additional, separate contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work, with acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal, but reference should be made to the PHEMM Journal.
Any unavoidable disagreements should be communicated in writing. The author is aware that disagreement with the PHEMM Journal's requests may lead to the rejection of the manuscript.
As a result of this copyright notice (considering also the licensing terms), authors and readers act in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International License, while the PHEMM Journal's editorial board and publisher obtain the right to finalize agreements with libraries, repositories, and databases for the dissemination of scientific information.
The PHEMM Journal's editorial board suggests several steps regarding copyright that you should take before submitting your manuscript:
1. Register your copyright
This is the most obvious yet one of the most neglected steps. If you want to be able to sue for any infringement of your work, you must have a registration. Furthermore, if you want full damages for your work, you must register it in a timely manner. In short, register your copyright as soon as possible.
2. Consider your licensing
Take a moment to consider how you want others to use your content. Are you comfortable with others sharing your work, as long as they give you attribution? What if they do it for profit? If so, we recommend checking out Creative Commons and consider using a license that allows such use openly. If this does not interest you, you will probably still want to include a means for others to contact you if they wish to re-edit all or part of the article. This can be done via a website, email, and/or postal address as you wish. However, the main thing is to clarify what your wishes are, if these are all rights reserved or more open in nature, and to make yourself available to those who wish to use the content in a way for which permission is not expressly granted.
3. Draft Copyright Notices
However, a basic copyright notice is more than sufficient (and more than is required by law), but if you have written hundreds of words for an article, it makes sense to take a few extra seconds to draft a short notice to discourage any misuse of its content.
4. Set Up Monitoring
When your article is released, you will find out where it appears online, what people are saying about it, how many times the article is cited, and if it is offered for illegal download. Additionally, consider creating Google Alerts for unique passages from your article so that any place that has included the text of your article is also detected.
5. Plan Your Enforcement Strategy
Finally, after all this, it is time to think about what you will do when and if you find infringements of your work. What infringements will you target? What actions will you take against any infringements you find (if any)? However, whether you are alone or with a publisher, you must think about your enforcement efforts before publication, especially what you want and what your strategy is to make it useful.
Licensing Terms
The licensing terms detail the rights to publish, distribute, and use the content of the article. The corresponding author is responsible for completing and returning the signed Author Declaration Form, validating agreement with the License Terms, to the editorial office. The Journal of Public Health, Economics and Management in Medicine (PHEMM) publishes its articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License.
The terms of the license are:
- Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
- NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
- No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
Notes
- You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or if your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.
- No warranties are given. The license may not give you all the permissions you need for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.
- The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you comply with the terms of the license.
With such terms, authors retain copyright in the published material, and the public is allowed to reuse the content of the article without asking permission from the authors or publisher, as long as the original work is properly cited – the name of the author(s) and the title PHEMM Journal issue, year, and pages are mentioned.
Creative Commons License
The licensing terms are identified by the Creative Commons icons.
However, PHEMM Journal grants you no other rights in relation to its website or the material on its website. In other words, all other rights are reserved.
For the avoidance of doubt, you must not adapt, edit, modify, transform, publish, republish, distribute, redistribute, broadcast, retransmit or publicly display or perform this website or the material on this website (in any form or media) without appropriate and visible acknowledgement of the original work and source or the prior written permission of PHEMM Journal.
Permissions
You may request permission to use copyrighted material on this website by writing to redactor.spemm [at] gmail.com
Copyright Enforcement
PHEMM Journal takes the protection of its copyrights very seriously. If PHEMM Journal discovers that you have used its copyrighted materials in violation of the above license, the editorial office may initiate legal proceedings against you, seeking monetary damages and an injunction to stop your use of such materials. You may also be required to pay legal costs.
If you are aware of any use of PHEMM Journal copyrighted materials that contravenes or may contravene the above license, please report this by email to redactor.spemm [at] gmail.com
Infringing material
If you are aware of any material on the site that you believe infringes your copyright or that of any other person, please report this by email to If you are aware of any use of PHEMM Journal copyright materials that contravene or may contravene the above license, please report this by email to redactor.spemm [at] gmail.com
Privacy Statement
The PHEMM Journal Privacy Statement defines the publisher’s position and intentions in the field of processing and protecting personal data, is strictly applied by the head of the institution and the editorial board staff, and applies to all personal data of entities processed by the editorial board with and without the use of automation tools.
In submitting their manuscripts, authors entrust editors with the results of their scientific work and creative effort, upon which their reputation and career may depend. Authors’ rights may be violated through disclosure of confidential details during the review of their manuscript.
The Editorial Board does not disclose information about manuscripts during the preparation process of the issue (including receipt of the manuscript, content, status in the review process, criticisms, etc.) to anyone other than the authors and reviewers.
The manuscript is treated with due respect for the authors’ confidentiality. Editorial staff members and reviewers respect authors’ rights by avoiding public discussion of the authors’ work or appropriating their ideas before publication of the manuscripts.
The editor clarifies to reviewers that manuscripts submitted for review are privileged communications and are the private intellectual property of the authors. Reviewers are not allowed to make copies of the manuscript for their files and are prohibited from sharing them with others unless they have permission from the editor.
Reviewers also have rights to confidentiality, which must be respected by the editor. Confidentiality may be breached in cases of alleged dishonesty or fraud, but otherwise must be maintained.
Reviewers should return or destroy copies of manuscripts after submitting reviews. The editorial staff keeps confidential copies of rejected manuscripts.
The editor has the right to modify this Privacy Statement without the author’s consent. By accepting the text of this Privacy Statement, the author agrees to all subsequent modifications made to it. The new Privacy Statement enters into force from the moment it is published on the website, unless otherwise provided in the new edition.
Conflict of Interest
The editorial board and the editor request all authors and reviewers to declare any conflict of interest that may be inherent in their submissions.
Upon submission of a manuscript, whether an article or a letter, authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and other conflicts of interest that may affect their work. They should acknowledge all financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections to it in the manuscript. The declaration for authors as well contains this section, along with the manuscript text.
A conflict of interest for a given manuscript exists when a participant in the peer review and publication – the author, reviewer, or editor – is connected to activities that may improperly influence their judgment, regardless of whether that judgment is actually affected.
Financial relationships with industry, for example, through employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, expert testimony, either directly or through immediate family, are usually considered to be the most important conflicts of interest. Financial relationships and their effects are less easily detected than other conflicts of interest.
However, conflicts can arise for other reasons, such as personal relationships, academic competition, and intellectual passion. Public trust in the peer review and the credibility of published articles depend partly on how well conflict of interest is managed during the process of drafting, peer review and editorial decision-making. A bias can often be identified and eliminated through careful observation of the scientific methods and conclusions of the work.
Participants in peer review and publication should disclose their conflicting interests, and the information should be open so that others can judge their effects.
External reviewers should disclose to editors any conflicts of interest that might influence their opinions on the manuscript and should disqualify themselves from reviewing specific manuscripts if they deem it appropriate.
Editors must be aware of reviewers' conflicts of interest to interpret reviews objectively and to judge for themselves whether the reviewer should be disqualified. The editorial board and examiners should not use knowledge related to the work before its publication to promote their own interests.
Direct contacts – represent the main and most preferred way to resolve disputes between editors, authors, and third parties in the process of reviewing and preparing materials for publication, as well as in connection with already published articles. If you have complaints or claims, you must report them to the editor-in-chief of the journal in writing to the journal's email address or the address listed on the journal's website.
The letter must contain the essence of the controversial issue, the circumstances, the name of the person and/or product for which the complaint is made. Persons or organizations complaining to the journal's editorial board about some issues can be sure that these complaints will be handled in a reasonable time. The editorial board, while analyzing complaints and disputes, follows the accepted statement on ethics and malpractice of the publication.
Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism and fraudulent data are considered a significant violation of truthfulness and involve theft of intellectual property from the work of others.
The PHEMM Journal maintains the integrity of the scientific community. The editorial board monitors elements of plagiarism and fraudulent data. Authors are asked to exclude inaccuracies or manipulation of data, carelessly borrowing from a citation.
Knowingly fraudulent or inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
Works with a political profile or works including biased or incorrect evaluations of other scientific works and other specialists are not accepted for publication.
If plagiarism or fraudulent data are found in any work after an internal investigation, a letter is immediately sent to all authors, their affiliated institutions, and funding agencies, and subsequently the work will be withdrawn.
The editorial office requires that submitted manuscripts be only the author's own work and not the work of others unless explicit permission has been granted. This includes text, figures, and tables. Responsibility for plagiarism and fraudulent data ultimately lies with the writer.
Articles should describe results as accurately as possible and avoid using statements of opinion as facts. The manuscript should present the results directly and avoid misleading the reader or causing misunderstandings. Articles must be authentic and must not contain manipulated data or fraudulent information. This also applies to direct translations from one language to another.
Authors must not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in multiple journals. Simultaneous submission of the same manuscript to multiple journals is considered unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
Publication of some types of articles (e.g., translations) in multiple journals is sometimes justifiable, provided certain conditions are met. Authors and editors must agree to the secondary publication, which must reflect the same data and interpretation as the primary article. The primary article must be cited in the secondary publication.
Authors must support the fact that all data in the article are real and authentic. Authors must ensure that they have written a completely original work, and if authors have used the work and/or words of other authors, these should be properly cited.
Recommendations for avoiding plagiarism:
– Use quotation marks around words taken verbatim from a source;
– Do not modify any part of the quotation in the context of the sentence;
– Use single quotation marks for a quote within a quotation;
– Use ellipses (a space and three dots) for a part of the omitted quotation;
– Use brackets around added words;
– Limit the use of direct quotations;
– Do not ignore mentioning corresponding articles in the reference list;
– Avoid paraphrasing.
All manuscripts entering the editorial office are tested for plagiarism through the anti-plagiarism system. An article must have at least 75% text uniqueness to be accepted.
Obvious cases of plagiarized or unauthorized borrowings may result in a three-year or longer ban on future submissions to the SPEMM Journal.
Self-archiving
The author of the PHEMM Journal can keep and disseminate the copy of the article before publication (pre-print, pre-editing version) and after its publication (post-print version). The author may archive the version of their work on their own website, on the institutional website, and in other repositories before or after submission, without needing permission from the publisher. However, we recommend our authors to start distributing copies of articles after publication, as the publisher's post-print PDF version is reviewed by reviewers, proofread by a proofreader, and has metadata, which are important for citation and identification.
We encourage authors that self-archiving is the practice of placing digital versions of scholarly literature in an online repository or on a website (example Google Scholar). When authors archive their research, they make it available to any Internet user, visible, accessible, harvestable, searchable, and usable, thereby increasing its coverage and impact, as well as the number of citations it receives. Self-archiving is easy, free, and extremely beneficial in the widespread dissemination of research results for the rapid advancement of science worldwide.
In accordance with the terms of the PHEMM Journal's open access license, authors are entitled to deposit the final published version of the article in institutional and/or centrally organized repositories immediately after publication, provided that PHEMM Journal is credited as the initial place of publication and the reference details are correctly presented. Authors are encouraged to deposit the URL of their published article alongside the PDF version. We suggest you access the final version of the article published in the Journal, using the assigned DOI (Digital Object Identifier). The PHEMM Journal editorial office deposits published articles in multiple digital archives worldwide to ensure long-term digital preservation. PHEMM Journal stores its full-text archives on:
– External Server external of the National Bibliometric Instrument
– Institutional server of the Scientific Medical Library (http://library.usmf.md)
Information in scientific electronic libraries complies with digital data storage standards, and everyone can use advanced search by journal articles, keywords, author, and title. The link to the full text of the article is marked on their homepage. The SPEMM editorial board enters article metadata, including DOI, into all databases for the purpose of long-term preservation and restoration.
