Responsibilities of Reviewers
Reviewers play a critical role in maintaining publication quality.
Reviewers are expected to:
- Provide objective and constructive evaluations
- Maintain confidentiality of manuscript content
- Declare potential conflicts of interest
- Complete reviews within agreed timelines
- Identify ethical concerns or suspected misconduct
Responsibilities of Editors
Editors are responsible for:
- Ensuring fair and unbiased editorial decisions
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Managing peer review with integrity
- Addressing ethical concerns promptly
- Preventing conflicts of interest from influencing decisions
Editorial decisions are based solely on scientific merit and relevance.
Responsibilities of Researchpubx
As a publisher, Researchpubx is committed to:
- Supporting editorial independence
- Maintaining transparent publishing policies
- Protecting the integrity of the scholarly record
- Investigating allegations of misconduct
- Issuing corrections, retractions, or expressions of concern when necessary
- Promoting ethical publishing practices
Ethical Compliance
Research involving human participants, animals, clinical materials, personal data, or sensitive information must comply with applicable ethical standards and regulatory requirements.
Transparency and Accountability
Researchpubx encourages openness regarding authorship, funding, conflicts of interest, data availability, and methodology to strengthen trust and reproducibility in scholarly research.
Data Availability and Research Transparency
Researchpubx encourages authors to support transparency and reproducibility by making research data available whenever ethically, legally, and technically feasible.
Authors are encouraged to provide:
- Data Availability Statements
- Repository information
- Supporting datasets
- Research protocols
- Supplementary materials
Data sharing improves research validation, facilitates collaboration, and increases the long-term value of published work.
Where restrictions apply due to privacy, confidentiality, ethical considerations, or legal requirements, authors should clearly explain the limitations.
Use of Artificial Intelligence and Generative Technologies
Researchpubx recognizes that artificial intelligence (AI) tools may assist researchers in language editing, manuscript preparation, literature discovery, and data organization. Authors may use such technologies responsibly provided that their use does not compromise the originality, accuracy, transparency, or integrity of the research.
AI systems, language models, chatbots, and automated content-generation tools cannot be listed as authors because they cannot assume responsibility for the content, approve manuscripts, or fulfill authorship obligations.
Authors remain fully responsible for all submitted content, including any sections prepared with AI assistance. Significant use of AI tools should be disclosed within the manuscript or during submission.
Researchpubx does not permit the use of AI for:
- Fabrication of data or results
- Creation of misleading scientific content
- Manipulation of images or findings
- Undisclosed generation of substantial manuscript content
- Interference with peer review processes