Committee on Publication Ethics

Ethical Principles

MEUC Journal of Biomedical and Life Sciences is committed to maintaining high standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, transparency, and responsible scholarly communication.

The journal follows recognized ethical principles in scholarly publishing and expects authors, editors, reviewers, and publishers to act with honesty, confidentiality, objectivity, and professional responsibility.

Manuscripts are evaluated according to scientific quality, originality, methodological soundness, clarity, relevance to the journal scope, and compliance with ethical research standards.

Responsibilities of Editors

• Editors make decisions based on academic merit and journal scope.
• Editors maintain confidentiality of submitted manuscripts.
• Editors avoid personal, financial, or institutional conflicts of interest.
• Editors ensure a fair and unbiased peer-review process.
• Editors may request corrections, clarifications, or retractions when needed.

Responsibilities of Reviewers

• Reviewers provide objective, constructive, and timely evaluations.
• Reviewers treat manuscripts as confidential documents.
• Reviewers should decline review requests outside their expertise.
• Reviewers must disclose any conflict of interest.
• Reviewers should not use unpublished material for personal advantage.

Responsibilities of Authors

• Authors must submit original work that has not been published elsewhere.
• Authors must avoid plagiarism, data fabrication, and falsification.
• Authors must properly acknowledge all sources and contributions.
• Authors must disclose funding sources and conflicts of interest.
• All listed authors must approve the final manuscript before submission.

Research Misconduct

The journal does not tolerate plagiarism, duplicate publication, simultaneous submission, improper authorship, citation manipulation, data fabrication, data falsification, or unethical research practices.

All suspected cases of misconduct may be investigated by the editorial office. Confirmed violations may result in rejection, correction, expression of concern, or retraction.

Corrections and Retractions

When errors are identified after publication, the journal may publish corrections, clarifications, expressions of concern, or retraction notices according to the seriousness of the case.

Authors are responsible for promptly notifying the editorial office if they discover significant errors or inaccuracies in their published work.