International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research expects a conflict of interest statement/disclosure from submitting authors.

According to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

'Conflicts of interest occur when authors, reviewers, or editors have concerns that are not fully clear, and that may affect their decisions on whatever is published. They have been defined as those that would create a thoughtful reader feel misled or deceived when announced later.'

Conflicting interest might result from relationships, allegiances, or hostilities to particular groups, organizations, or interests, which may impact one's judgments or procedures excessively. When such claims are individual and/or may result in personal gain this can also arise the issue of competing interest.

Scholars, researchers, and professionals may have possible conflicts of interest that could impact – or could be seen to have an impact on- their research. Therefore, to exclude and clarify such situations IJSMR requires a precise declaration of conflicting interests, a statement that will be included the published article. of note, this statement does not need to detail the financial methods of competing interests.

Declaration of any competing interests will certainly not be a cause of article discarding rather the articles will be judged honestly.

Instances of conflicts of interest might include the following, although it is not an exhaustive listing:

• Producing collected fees for advising.
• Holding obtained research funding.
• Having been applied by a relevant organization.
• Owning assets or shares in an organization that the publication of your paper might influence.
• Having acquired funds compensating you for visiting a relevant symposium or talk.

If there are some additional interests that the thoughtful reader might consider have changed your research, you may also require to declare them.
How to Make a Declaration?

Authors should include the Declaration of Conflicting Interests at the end of the manuscript after Acknowledgements and before the References under the heading 'Declaration of Conflicting Interest.' If no conflict exists, they must state that 'The Author(s) declare(s) no conflict of interest.'

All articles published by IJSMR are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode), which permits free distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the work is properly cited.

SELF-ARCHIVING POLICY

As according toCreative Commons Attribution License authors retain the copyright to their articles; they can SELF-ARCHIVE their published manuscripts on their institutional websites, institutional depositories like PMC, or a cross-institutional subject repository like arXive.org., provided that the proper acknowledgment has been given to the original source of publication, accompanied by a link to the published article on the IJSMR/Lifescience Global website.

LONG-TERM ARCHIVING OF Published CONTENT

To ensure the fulfilment of our commitment to secure permanent access to our publications in cases of unforeseen events, the content of IJSMRis deposited and archived in LOCKSS and Portico through the PKP Preservation Network.

International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research (IJSMR) is committed to disseminating research and scholarly publications as widely as possible. It supports the principle that the study results that have been publicly funded should be freely accessible in the public domain. Therefore, it encourages researchers to make their research available through Open Access (OA).

However, open access publishing, too, is not without costs. IJSMR provides open access publication services by paying the expenses of journal production, online hosting, and archiving. To cover these costs authors and their research supporters are asked for paying publication fee for each article they publish.

After editorial approval and peer review, all accepted manuscripts are subject to an article-processing fee (APC) covering the cost of production.

IJSMR Standard OPEN ACCESS article processing fee(APC) = US$ 630 (Inclusive of Bank Charges)

Plagiarism Prevention Policy:

Plagiarism is strictly forbidden, and by submitting the article for publication, the authors agree that International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research has the legal right to take appropriate action against the authors if plagiarism or fabricated information is discovered.

International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research uses advanced soft wares to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. These soft wares check the content against a database of periodicals, Internet, and a comprehensive article database. It generates a similarity report, highlighting the percentage overlap between the uploaded article and the already published material. Any piece of content overlap is further examined for suspected plagiarism according to the International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research Editorial Policies. International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research allows an overall similarity of 20% for a manuscript to be acknowledged for publication. The similarity percentage is further checked keeping the following important points in view:

Types of Plagiarism: We all understand that scholarly manuscripts are drafted after a careful review of previously published articles. It is therefore, not easy to draw a clear boundary between legitimate representation and plagiarism; and authors may be prone to practice plagiarism, although unintentionally. However, the following important features can assist the authors in identifying different kinds of plagiarized content.

• Reproduction of others' words, sentences, ideas, or findings as one's own without proper acknowledgment.
• Text recycling, also known as self-plagiarism: Here, the author reuses his/her own work from a former publication without proper citation and acknowledgment of the original source.
• Poor paraphrasing, copying complete paragraphs, and modifying a few words without changing the structure of original sentences, or changing the sentence structure but not the words.
• Word-for-word copying of text without placing quotation marks and not acknowledging the work of original author.
• Correctly citing a work but poorly paraphrasing the original text is considered unintentional plagiarism. Similarly, manuscripts using both paraphrasing and quoting for a similar idea are not acceptable. Authors should either paraphrase properly, or quote and, in both cases, cite the original source.

Authors are hence, suggested to check for all of the above instances before final submission of their articles to the journal.

Plagiarism in Published Manuscripts: Published manuscripts containing plagiarized text are retracted from the journal website after careful investigation and approval by the Journal's Editor-in-Chief. A 'Retraction Note'(briefly describing the reason for retraction) and a link to the original study are published with the plagiarized manuscript on journal’s website.