Plagiarism Policy
All submitted manuscripts are screened using the iThenticate plagiarism checker software before the review process. The manuscript with <20% similarity will be considered for the next processing.
Plagiarism—the act of presenting another person’s ideas, words, or creative work as one’s own—constitutes a serious breach of scientific ethics. It may also infringe upon copyright laws, leading to potential legal consequences.
Forms of Plagiarism Include:
- Verbatim or near-verbatim copying of another author’s work without proper attribution.
- Deliberately paraphrasing sections of another author’s content without clearly crediting the source or identifying the borrowed material.
- Reproducing equations, figures, or tables from another publication without appropriate citation and/or permission from the original author or copyright holder.
Consequences of Plagiarism:
- Any manuscript found to contain plagiarism will be immediately rejected.
- Authors guilty of plagiarism will be barred from submitting future papers to the Journal of Basic and Clinical Veterinary Medicine.
- If plagiarism is detected after publication, the paper will be retracted following the journal’s Retraction Policy, and the authors will face the same publishing restrictions.
Retraction Policy
The Journal of Basic and Clinical Veterinary Medicine may retract a published article under the following circumstances:
- Legal or copyright restrictions imposed by the publisher, copyright holder, or author(s).
- Violations of professional ethics, including but not limited to:
- Duplicate submission
- False authorship claims
- Plagiarism
- Data fabrication or fraudulent research practices
- Any other serious academic misconduct
- Significant errors in submission or publication that necessitate correction to uphold scientific integrity.
The primary purpose of retraction is to correct the scholarly record, not to penalize the author(s). Retraction standards follow established guidelines from academic and library associations.
Retraction Process:
- A retraction notice will be published and linked to the original article.
- The electronic version of the original article will include a clear link to the retraction notice, stating its retracted status.
- The original article will remain unchanged in content, except for a "RETRACTED" watermark on each page of the PDF.
Publication Decisions
JBCVM follows a structured process to determine publication decisions, guided by journal policies and COPE guidelines. Key considerations include:
- Scope Compatibility: Each submission must align with the journal’s aims and scope.
- Ethical Standards: Manuscripts must be free of plagiarism, copyright infringement, libel, or other ethical concerns.
- Peer Review: Reviewer feedback plays a critical role in the evaluation process.
The final decision is based on these criteria, ensuring only high-quality and relevant papers are selected for publication. JBCVM reserves the right to publish submissions that meet its standards of academic excellence.
Open access policy
The Journal of Basic and Clinical Veterinary Medicine operates under an Open Access framework. All published articles may be downloaded at no cost and utilized in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License, which permits others to disseminate and reproduce the article; generate extracts, abstracts, and other modified versions, adaptations, or derivative works from the article (including translations); incorporate it into a collective work; and engage in text or data mining of the article, even for commercial objectives, provided that appropriate credit is attributed to the Author(s), a link to the license is supplied, and any alterations are clearly indicated. Nonetheless, such actions must not be executed in a manner that implies endorsement by the licensor, nor should the article be altered in ways that could potentially harm the honour or reputation of the Author.
Copyright
The authors maintain the ownership of copyright for the scholarly articles they publish and confer upon the publisher the authority to disseminate the article, to be acknowledged as the original publisher in instances of reutilization, and to circulate it across all formats and media. The articles will be disseminated in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0).