Research Reporting

RESEARCH REPORTING

As part of the submission process, you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.

Clinical Trials

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) require investigators to register trials in acceptable clinical trial registries before the onset of patient enrollment. Manuscripts describing primary results of nonregistered trials will be turned away prior to peer review.

The ICMJE requires that “any research project that prospectively assigns human subjects to intervention and comparison groups to study the cause-and-effect relationship between a medical intervention and a health outcome” must be registered before the start of patient enrollment. To be acceptable, a registry must be owned by a non-for-profit entity, be publicly accessible, and contain the 20 fields required by the World Health Organization (WHO). View a list of acceptable registriesregistries on the WHO website.

Each manuscript will be checked on submission to determine whether the study needed registration, and, if registered, whether the registration is complete and meaningful. No manuscript will enter the editorial process until it has passed this screen.

Authorship

It is the responsibility of every person listed as an author of an article published in Rave Reviewer Publishing to have contributed in a meaningful and identifiable way to the design, performance, analysis, and reporting of the work and to agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

As stated in the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations, credit for authorship requires:

Substantial contributions to conception and design; or acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data
Drafting of the article or critical revision for important intellectual content
Final approval of the version to be published
Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the article are appropriately investigated and resolved

Copyright Infringement

Rave Reviewer Publishing takes issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of articles published in the journal. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal. Submitted articles may be checked using duplication-checking software. Where an article is found to have plagiarized other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where authorship of the article is contested, or where data or other information found to be incorrect or falsified, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction), retracting the article, taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author’s institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies, banning the author from publication in the journal or all SAGE journals, or appropriate legal action.

Ethics Approval

All studies involving human beings, human tissue from living donors, and confidential patient information must be accompanied by written approval from an institutional review board (IRB), ethics committee, or similar agency. If the investigation was performed in a country where approval is not required for retrospective studies based on patient data, a copy of the relevant regulations and a current URL (web address) where the regulations can be found should be provided. Studies involving human cadaveric tissue should be accompanied by IRB or similar agency approval, or a statement of waiver from the appropriate body if approval is not required at the institution where the study was performed.

Patient Confidentiality and Consent

Manuscripts reporting human studies must contain state-ments indicating that informed, written consent has been obtained (unless waived by the IRB/ethics committee commit-tee) and that studies have been performed according to the Declaration of Helsinki. If individuals might be identified from a publication (eg, from images), the authors must obtain explicit written consent from the individual.All case reports must include a statement of release or other written form of approval from the patient or patients indicat-ing that they approve publication of the details of their case

Animal Research

Manuscripts describing studies involving animals should com-ply with local/national guidelines governing the use of experimental animals and must contain a statement indicating that the procedures have been approved by the appropriate animal use regulatory body.

Conflicts of Interest Disclosure

The corresponding author is responsible for collecting and reporting disclosures from all authors any other individuals acknowledged as contributing to the conduct or analysis of the research or writing of the manuscript. All disclosures need to be included in the manuscript.

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