Publication Ethics

Research integrity statement

IROAP requires manuscripts to be honest, original, accurately reported, and compliant with applicable disciplinary, institutional, and legal standards.

Scope of publication assistance

IROAP may assist with formatting review, policy guidance, metadata preparation, citation presentation, repository submission support, and publication workflow coordination. IROAP does not ghostwrite papers, fabricate results, sell authorship positions, manipulate peer review, or guarantee acceptance.

Authorship and contributor responsibility

All listed authors must have made a real scholarly contribution, approved the submitted version, and agreed to publication. The corresponding author is responsible for confirming author consent, affiliation accuracy, and permission to submit.

Human participants, animals, and sensitive data

Authors must secure ethics approval, informed consent, permissions, and lawful authority for any human-participant, animal, clinical, educational, or sensitive personal data included in the work. Personal or confidential data must be anonymized or disclosed only when lawful and necessary.

Originality, plagiarism, and AI-assisted writing

Submissions must be original and properly cited. Editors may request similarity reports or supporting documentation. If authors use AI-assisted tools for language or formatting support, they remain fully responsible for the accuracy, legality, and originality of the submitted content.

Conflicts of interest and funding disclosure

Authors, reviewers, and editors must disclose financial, institutional, personal, supervisory, or academic conflicts that could affect judgment. Funding sources and sponsor involvement must be declared clearly.

Retractions, corrections, and legal holds

Published articles may be corrected, withdrawn, temporarily restricted, or retracted for fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, duplicate publication, privacy violations, copyright complaints, court orders, or other serious legal or ethical concerns.

Misconduct handling procedure

1. Receive and document the concern.
2. Conduct preliminary editorial assessment.
3. Request clarification, files, or institutional documents when needed.
4. Record findings and the basis for the editorial decision.
5. Issue a correction, rejection, withdrawal, expression of concern, or retraction when appropriate.