Decision trees
General guidelines for handling allegations
- Authorship complaints
- Plagiarism complaints
- Multiple, duplicate, concurrent publication/simultaneous submission
- Research results misappropriation
- Allegations of research errors, falsification and fabrication
- Allegations of image duplication or manipulation
- Research standards violations
- Undisclosed conflicts of interest
- Reviewer bias or competitive harmful acts by reviewers
Form letters
A. To author
A1. To author regarding a published article
A2. To author regarding suspected plagiarism in a submitted article
A3. To all contactable authors regarding an article retraction
A4. To all contactable authors regarding image integrity issues
D. To other journal (double publication)
F. To reviewer