Publication Ethics (PEMS)

Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere. All listed authors must have contributed substantively; funding sources and conflicts of interest must be declared. Plagiarism, data fabrication and duplicate submission result in rejection and a ban from future editions.

Reviews are confidential, objective and evidence-based. Reviewers must declare conflicts of interest and must not use unpublished material from reviewed manuscripts.

The Scientific Committee decides solely on academic merit, guards double-blind anonymity, and investigates all misconduct allegations following COPE guidance.

All submissions are screened with similarity-detection software; a similarity index above 20% (excluding references) triggers editorial review before the manuscript proceeds.