Publication Ethics & Malpractice Statement

Open Access Policy

In order to ensure maximum reach of International Journal of Anatomy and Research (IJAR) contents, we have adopted an open access policy, meaning that:

• All articles published in International Journal of Anatomy and Research (IJAR) are made freely accessible online immediately after publication in an easily readable format, without any subscription or registration barrier.
• All published articles are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Articles can be shared and adapted, provided proper attribution for the work is given.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The publication of a peer-reviewed journal requires continuous work, responsibility, liability, and collaboration from all involved parties: authors, reviewers, chief editor, managing editors, associate editors, and editorial board members. The chief editor and editors have the responsibility of maintaining publishing ethics and preserving the academic record. The Editorial Board assumes responsibility for verifying articles against fraudulent data or plagiarism. The editorial team goal is to maintain the publication at the highest standards, implying good quality, original research-based articles, as well as corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when required.

Publication and Authorship

• All submitted papers to International Journal of Anatomy and Research (IJAR) are subject to a strict double-blind peer review process.
• Rejected articles are not resent for reviewing.
• Authors must provide all sources of data used in the research.

Authors' Ethics & Responsibilities

• An author is a person who has made a substantial intellectual contribution to the article; all other contributors should be recognized in Acknowledgements.
• Authors must ensure that the submitted article is their original work, which has not been previously published.
• Authors must ensure that the submitted article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• Authors should cite only articles that have directly contributed to their work; unnecessary citations should be avoided.
• Authors should present their work as objectively as possible. Arguments that discriminate based on race, sex, origin, or religion are strictly prohibited. Bogus or fabricated results are not accepted.
• Authors must state that all data presented in the paper are authentic and genuine.
• Authors must report any identified errors in their published paper to the Chief Editor.
• Authors should provide revised versions of their article in accordance with reviewers' recommendations.
• Authors are solely responsible for legal constraints arising due to published data, including copyright issues.

Reviewers' Responsibilities

• Maintain complete confidentiality throughout the review process.
• Provide detailed, constructive, and unbiased evaluations in a timely manner regarding the scientific content of the manuscript.
• Identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
• Notify the journal editor of any financial or personal conflict of interest and decline to review when a conflict exists.
• Notify the editor of ethical concerns, such as violations of human or animal subject standards or substantial similarity to previously published work.

Chief Editor & Editors' Responsibilities

• Editors decide which submitted articles should be published based strictly on academic merit.
• Editors are responsible for the content and overall quality of the publication.
• Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions. Editors publish only peer-reviewed, accepted articles.
• Editors must maintain a clear overview of study funding sources.
• Editors must not use unpublished information from submitted manuscripts in their own research without explicit written author consent.

Licensing Policy

To fully realize the potential of open access to research literature, barriers to reuse must be removed. The Creative Commons (CC) licenses provide an effective legal framework for this purpose. Authors grant a non-exclusive license to the publisher to distribute the work, while all readers are granted rights to reuse the work.

The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) permits unrestricted non-commercial reuse, provided the source work is properly attributed and modified works are shared under identical license terms.

Terms & Conditions Policy

International Journal of Anatomy and Research (IJAR) assumes no legal accountability for article contents published in the journal; all such liability rests solely with the author(s). Opinions expressed in published articles are exclusively those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of IJAR or its editorial team.

The decision of peer reviewers and editors shall be final. Authors are solely responsible for the uniqueness of their published work. Open-access authors retain copyright of their papers, and reproduction of published material is permitted with due source attribution.