Research Misconduct

The JSR strives to detect and prevent any form of research misconduct e.g., in the presentation of data, arguments, graphs, or figures already published elsewhere. The journal strives to ensure that articles are not published where there are inconsistent data sets; where citations have been manipulation; or plagiarism is practiced. Should these be detected the article will not be accepted for publication. Should these be detected after publication the JSR will either retract the article or issue an errata notice (cf. the section ‘Procedures for issuing errata, corrigenda, and retractions’ on the website.

The JSR follows the guidelines for research misconduct as set out by the COPE (cf. COPE: Allegations of Misconduct; https://publicationethics.org/guidance).

Plagiarism

The JSR takes plagiarism very seriously. To prevent plagiarism all authors are required to submit a Turnitin or iThenticate report with their articles proving that the score is less than 10. Once an article has been through the review process and the author(s) submit their final draft for language editing, the article is once again submitted to Turnitin. Should the report give the article a score of 10 or more the author(s) will be required to revise the article. No article will be published with a Turnitin score of 10 or more. The JSR follows the guidelines for plagiarism as set out by COPE (https://publicationethics.org/guidance).

AI Tools and Integration

Concealing the use of AI tools is considered unethical by the JSR and violates the principles of transparency and honesty in research.