Publication Ethics & Policies

Publication Ethics & Policies

TIJSBM is committed to the highest standards of publication ethics, in alignment with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines.

• Originality: Submissions must be original and not published or under review elsewhere
• Plagiarism: All manuscripts are screened using plagiarism detection software; similarity index must be below 20%
• Authorship: All listed authors must have meaningfully contributed to the work
• Conflicts of Interest: Authors must disclose any financial or non-financial conflicts
• Data Integrity: Fabrication, falsification, or selective reporting of data constitutes misconduct
• Human/Animal Studies: Research involving human subjects must have relevant ethics board approval
• Corrections & Retractions: The journal maintains a transparent policy for post-publication corrections