Editorial Conduct, Corrections, and Retractions

The journal may request clarifications, additional ethics documentation, corrections, expressions of concern, retractions, or institutional notifications when there is evidence or suspicion of data fabrication or falsification, plagiarism, redundant publication, inappropriate authorship, failure to disclose conflicts of interest, undisclosed use of AI, breaches of confidentiality, ethical noncompliance in research involving humans or animals, or any other practice contrary to scientific integrity.

Conflicts of Interest, Funding, and Sponsorship

• Authors must disclose in writing any financial, academic, institutional, employment-related, personal, or other conflict of interest that could influence, or reasonably be perceived as influencing, the design, conduct, analysis, interpretation, or communication of the results.

• When funding or sponsorship has been received, the source, nature, scope, and involvement of the sponsor in the study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript preparation, or decision to submit the manuscript for publication must be specified.

• When the sponsor had no involvement in any of these stages, this must be expressly stated.

• The opinions, statements, citations, data, and conclusions contained in the manuscripts are the sole responsibility of the authors.