Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Current Research in Interdisciplinary Studies is committed to maintaining high standards of research integrity, publication ethics, transparency, confidentiality, responsible scholarship, and editorial independence.
This policy applies to authors, reviewers, editors, editorial board members, and the publisher.
The journal's ethical framework is informed by the COPE Core Practices and relevant disciplinary, professional, institutional, and ethical standards applicable to the research being published.
Research Integrity
Research must be conducted, analyzed, and reported honestly, responsibly, and transparently.
The journal does not tolerate fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, inappropriate data manipulation, inappropriate image manipulation, duplicate publication, peer-review manipulation, or other forms of research or publication misconduct.
Interdisciplinary Research Integrity
Authors are responsible for accurately representing theories, methods, evidence, data, analytical procedures, and conclusions derived from each discipline involved in an interdisciplinary study.
Disciplinary concepts, methods, datasets, and sources must not be misrepresented or selectively presented in a manner that creates misleading conclusions.
Data Integrity and Transparency
Authors should maintain appropriate research records and retain sufficient information to support the reported findings.
Where reasonably possible, supporting datasets, research materials, software, code, analytical procedures, or other reproducibility materials should be made available through appropriate repositories or other suitable mechanisms.
Legitimate restrictions arising from privacy, confidentiality, legal requirements, licensing, security, intellectual property, or other considerations should be clearly explained.
Software, Code, and Third-Party Materials
Authors must comply with applicable licenses and intellectual-property requirements when using third-party software, datasets, source code, images, instruments, or other protected materials.
Materially important third-party resources should be appropriately cited or acknowledged.
Human Participants and Personal Data
Research involving human participants, interviews, surveys, personal information, health data, or other ethically regulated activities must comply with applicable ethical, institutional, legal, and professional requirements.
Where applicable, authors should report ethics approval, informed consent, anonymization, privacy safeguards, and other relevant protections.
Informed Consent and Privacy
Appropriate informed consent must be obtained where required.
Identifiable personal information, photographs, interviews, case details, or other potentially identifying information must be handled in accordance with applicable privacy and consent requirements.
Animal Research
Research involving animals must comply with applicable institutional, national, and international animal-welfare and ethical requirements.
Where applicable, authors should report relevant ethics approval or institutional authorization and should consider the ARRIVE guidelines.
Health and Biomedical Research
When manuscripts involve medical or biomedical research, applicable health-research ethics and reporting standards should be followed.
Human medical research should follow the principles of the WMA Declaration of Helsinki where applicable.
Authorship and Contributorship
Authorship should reflect substantial contributions to the research or manuscript.
All authors should approve the final manuscript and accept responsibility for their contributions and the integrity of the work.
For biomedical and health-related research, the journal recognizes the relevant ICMJE Recommendations.
Changes in Authorship
Requests to add, remove, or change the order of authors after submission require an explanation and appropriate confirmation from the affected authors.
The journal may suspend processing until the authorship issue is resolved.
Conflicts of Interest
Authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial board members must disclose actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest.
Conflicts may include financial, professional, institutional, personal, academic, commercial, or other interests that could influence or reasonably appear to influence scholarly judgment.
Funding and Sponsorship
All sources of financial support must be disclosed.
Where applicable, authors should state the role of the funding organization in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript preparation, and publication decisions.
Peer-Review Ethics
Current Research in Interdisciplinary Studies uses a single-blind peer-review process.
Reviewers must maintain confidentiality, disclose conflicts of interest, provide objective assessments, and must not use unpublished information for personal or professional advantage.
Editorial Independence
The Editor-in-Chief has overall responsibility for the journal's editorial direction, peer-review integrity, publication ethics, and final editorial decisions.
The Editor-in-Chief may delegate manuscript handling or decision-making to a qualified Senior Editor, Associate Editor, or other formally designated editor. Such delegation does not remove the Editor-in-Chief's overall responsibility.
Editorial decisions must be based on scholarly and ethical considerations and must not be influenced by commercial interests, publication charges, optional production services, nationality, institutional affiliation, personal relationships, or other irrelevant factors.
Confidentiality
Submitted manuscripts, unpublished data, datasets, source code, reviewer reports, editorial correspondence, and personal information must be treated as confidential.
Artificial Intelligence
Authors must disclose material use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies where relevant.
AI systems cannot be listed as authors. Human authors remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, citations, data, analysis, interpretation, and conclusions of their work.
AI must not be used to fabricate data, results, references, citations, images, or other scholarly information.
Reviewers and editors must not use AI tools in a manner that compromises confidential manuscript or peer-review information.
For biomedical or health-related research, the journal recognizes the relevant ICMJE AI guidance.
Plagiarism and Duplicate Publication
Plagiarism, substantial unattributed copying, duplicate publication, redundant publication, and inappropriate reuse of previously published material are not acceptable.
Similarity-detection tools may be used as part of editorial screening. Similarity results do not by themselves establish plagiarism, and the journal does not apply an automatic fixed similarity-percentage threshold.
Research and Publication Misconduct
Potential misconduct may include:
- fabrication;
- falsification;
- plagiarism;
- data or image manipulation;
- duplicate or redundant publication;
- authorship misconduct;
- undisclosed conflicts of interest;
- ethical approval concerns;
- peer-review manipulation; and
- other violations of research or publication integrity.
The journal may request explanations, supporting information, research records, institutional information, or other evidence when investigating a concern.
Corrections
When a published article contains an error that materially affects the accuracy or interpretation of the published record, the journal may publish a correction or other appropriate editorial notice.
Retractions
An article may be retracted where reliable evidence demonstrates that its findings are substantially unreliable, the article contains serious research or publication misconduct, or another circumstance requires formal correction or removal of the published record.
Expressions of Concern
Where significant concerns exist but an investigation has not reached a definitive conclusion, the journal may publish an Expression of Concern to alert readers while the matter is being assessed.
Post-Publication Concerns
Readers, authors, reviewers, institutions, and other interested parties may raise credible concerns regarding published articles.
The journal may assess such concerns and request information from authors, institutions, or other relevant parties where necessary.
Complaints and Appeals
Authors may submit legitimate appeals concerning editorial decisions or complaints concerning the publication process.
Appeals should provide clear reasons and relevant evidence. Publication-ethics concerns will be handled according to applicable journal procedures and recognized principles such as the COPE Core Practices.
Optional Production and Technical Support
After acceptance, authors who require assistance with final manuscript preparation, production-related technical checks, or file preparation may request optional Production and Technical Support from Jagua Publication at a charge of USD 50 per manuscript.
This service is entirely optional and is not a condition of acceptance or publication. Authors who prepare and submit their final files themselves do not need to pay this charge.
Payment for optional production or technical support has no influence on peer review, editorial assessment, acceptance, rejection, or publication.
Ethical and Reporting Resources
Authors, reviewers, and editors may consult recognized resources according to the subject and methodology of the manuscript: