Ethical Guidelines & Flowcharts

Birne Publishing House is committed to follow and apply guidelines and flowcharts of Committee on Publication Ethics in designing Birne Journals’ reviewing and publishing process and dealing with their problems. The guidelines and flowcharts are designed to help authors, editors, and reviewers follow COPE’s Code of Conduct and implement its advice when faced with cases of suspected misconduct. You may find Cope’s guidelines and flowcharts, here.

 A.    Guidelines of Committee of Publication Ethics
 1.    General guidelines

• Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers 
• Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
• Cooperation between research institutions and journals on research integrity cases
• Guidelines for Retracting Articles
• Guidelines for the Board of Directors of Learned Society Journals

 2.    Guidelines for editors

• Sharing of Information Among Editors-in-Chief Regarding Possible Misconduct
• How to deal with text recycling
• A Short Guide to Ethical Editing
• Guidance for Editors: Research, Audit and Service Evaluations

 3.    Guidelines for peer reviewers

• COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers

 4.    Guidelines for authors

• How to handle authorship disputes: a guide for new researchers

B.    Flowcharts of Committee of Publication Ethics
1.    How to respond to whistle blowers

• Responding to Whistle blowers - Concerns Raised Directly
• Responding to Whistle blowers - Concerns Raised via Social Media

2.    What to do if you suspect plagiarism

• Suspected plagiarism in a submitted manuscript
• Suspected plagiarism in a published manuscript

3.    What to do if you suspect redundant (duplicate) publication

• Suspected redundant publication in a submitted manuscript
• Suspected redundant publication in a published manuscript

4.    Changes in Authorship

• Corresponding author requests addition of extra author before publication
• Corresponding author requests removal of author before publication
• Request for addition of extra author after publication
• Request for removal of author after publication
• Suspected guest, ghost or gift authorship
• How to spot authorship problems

5.    Conflict of Interest

• What to do if a reviewer suspects undisclosed conflict of interest (CoI) in a submitted manuscript
• What to do if a reader suspects undisclosed conflict of interest (CoI) in a published article

6.    What to do if you suspect an ethical problem

• What to do if you suspect an ethical problem with a submitted manuscript

7.    What to do if you suspect fabricated data

• Suspected fabricated data in a submitted manuscript
• Suspected fabricated data in a published manuscript

 8.    What to do if you suspect a reviewer has appropriated an author’s idea or data
What to do if you suspect a reviewer has appropriated an author’s idea or data