Publication Ethics

Journal of Tropical Biodiversity has agreed to follow the ethical standards determined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as well as the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Author(s) must comply with and pay attention to authorship, plagiarism, duplicate or redundant publication, fabrication of data, citation manipulation, ethical approval, and Intellectual Property Rights.

Authorship

An author is a person who has participated in the research and is sufficiently involved to take public responsibility for all portions of the content. When authorship is attributed to a group, all authors should have made substantial contributions to the following: (i) the conception and design of the research, acquisition of data, analysis, and interpretation of data; (ii) drafting and revising the manuscript; and (iii) final approval of the version to be submitted. Manuscript submission implies that all authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript and agree to its submission to this journal. All authors must be responsible for the quality, accuracy, and ethical integrity of the research.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and presenting them as one's own. Submitted manuscripts must be the original work of the author(s).

Duplicate or Redundant Publication

Duplicate publication is the publication of a paper that substantially overlaps with an already published paper without a clear and visible reference to the previous publication. Manuscripts will only be considered for publication if they are submitted exclusively to this journal and do not substantially overlap with a published article. Any manuscript that has a similar or nearly similar hypothesis, sample characteristics, methodology, results, and conclusions to a published article is considered a duplicate publication and is prohibited, even if it is published in a different language. Dividing data from a single research project into several manuscripts without substantial differences should be avoided.

Fabrication of Data

Fabrication, manipulation, or falsification of data constitutes an ethical violation and is strictly prohibited.

Citation Manipulation

Only relevant citations should be included in manuscripts. Irrelevant self-citations intended to increase the author(s)' citation count or h-index, as well as unnecessary citations intended solely to increase the number of references, are not permitted.

Ethical Approval

Experiments involving humans or animals must obtain approval from the appropriate official agencies and must comply with applicable laws and regulations. Human- or animal-related experiments should be described in the Materials and Methods section and must be reviewed and approved by an authorized ethics committee. Research involving human subjects must comply with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and its recommendations for physicians conducting biomedical research involving human subjects. Personal information may only be included when it is essential for scientific purposes and when the author(s) have obtained written permission from the individual, parent, or legal guardian.

Intellectual Property Rights

Author(s) must comply with applicable laws and ethical principles when handling research objects and must pay attention to the legality of material sources and intellectual property rights.

Conflict of Interest and Sources of Funding

Author(s) are required to acknowledge all sources of institutional, private, and corporate financial support for the research within the manuscript and to disclose any potential conflicts of interest.