Boffin Access – Ethical Publishing Policies
At Boffin Access, we are committed to upholding the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability in scholarly publishing.
Every contributor—publishers, editors, reviewers, and authors—plays a vital role in maintaining trust and credibility within the academic community.
Boffin Access fully aligns with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and ICMJE guidelines in its practices.
Publisher Responsibilities
- Safeguard the integrity of the academic record across all Boffin Access journals.
- Guarantee editorial independence and support editors in making unbiased decisions.
- Ensure transparency in peer review and editorial processes.
- Follow best practices for corrections, retractions, and clarifications when necessary.
- Reject all forms of bias—geographic, racial, gender-based, or otherwise—and ensure decisions are based solely on scientific merit.
- Promote ethical research dissemination and global accessibility through Open Access principles.
Author Responsibilities
- Submit only original, unpublished work that is not under consideration elsewhere.
- Avoid plagiarism, data manipulation, and fabrication in all forms.
- Clearly identify all authorship contributions, affiliations, and corresponding author details.
- Disclose all funding sources, conflicts of interest, and potential commercial/financial benefits.
- Provide proper attribution and citation for all borrowed material.
- Ensure ethical compliance for human/animal studies, including approval from an institutional ethics committee.
- Provide patient consent for case reports or identifiable data, when applicable.
- Submit complete manuscripts with all supporting materials, datasets, and supplementary files.
Reviewer Responsibilities
- Evaluate manuscripts objectively, based solely on scientific merit and relevance.
- Declare conflicts of interest and recuse themselves where impartiality is compromised.
- Maintain strict confidentiality of manuscripts under review.
- Provide fair, constructive, and timely feedback to improve the quality of the work.
- Adhere to a professional code of conduct and support the integrity of the peer review process.
Editor Responsibilities
- Develop and uphold ethical editorial policies, ensuring alignment with international publishing standards.
- Make fair, transparent, and timely editorial decisions based only on scholarly merit.
- Disclose any conflicts of interest and act with integrity at all times.
- Appoint reviewers and editorial board members based on expertise and academic contributions.
- Ensure confidentiality of manuscripts and communicate only with authorized parties.
- Maintain the highest standards of editorial independence, objectivity, and accountability.
