Requirements of Author Signature
The order of authors should be determined through collective discussion by all authors before submission and should not be altered after submission. If changes are indeed necessary, a written statement signed by all authors confirming no objections to the authorship order must be provided. Authors should meet all of the following four criteria: 1. Participation in the selection and design of the research topic, or in the analysis and interpretation of data; 2. Drafting or revising key theoretical or other main content of the paper; 3. Reviewing and revising the paper according to the editorial board's suggestions, addressing academic questions, and ultimately agreeing to the publication of the paper; 4. Besides being responsible for their own research contributions, agreeing to be accountable for the integrity of all aspects of the research work. The persons who have made other contributions to the paper, such as laboratory technical support, should be listed in the acknowledgments. Those who only participated in obtaining funding or collecting data cannot be listed as authors, nor should those who only provided general management to the research team. The authoring institution should be listed below the title, and the name, educational background, title and Email address of the lead author and corresponding author should be noted at the foot of the first page of the paper.
Research Subjects
Any animal experiments involving vertebrates or advanced invertebrates must comply with all institutional and national animal protection laws, guidelines, and policies, and this should be stated in the "Methods" section of the article. For clinical research involving human experiments, informed consent must be obtained from each participant. All clinical trials must be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki.
Paper Revision and Withdrawal/Retraction
Manuscripts with serious errors or academic misconduct will be rejected at any stage of publication. If an error is found in a published article and it is minor and does not affect the overall results and conclusions of the research, a correction notice will be published in the nearest issue. If the error is caused by the publishing staff during the editing and publishing process, the correction notice will be published in the nearest paginated issue, and the title of the correction notice will be included in the issue's table of contents. The correction notice will clearly and completely describe the content of the correction. If serious errors or academic misconduct are discovered, the article will be rejected at any stage of publication or after publication. If there is suspicion of fraud in the manuscript, we will conduct further investigations and notify the author's institution or supervisory department to assist in the investigation.
Editorial Decisions
The most important criterion for accepting articles in the journal is the originality of the content. Editorial decisions are based not only on the academic validity of the article's content but also on other factors, including but not limited to the standardization of paper writing.
Peer review process
The peer-review process and editorial scrutiny are the main mechanisms for ensuring the quality of published articles. To this end, the submitted articles are rigorously peer-reviewed to ensure the high quality submissions are accepted and published; these published articles reflect the up-to-date research findings, with reliable and sound results, objective and unbiased discussion of the results. The journal’s editorial board is composed of research scientists and medical specialists with rich research and publication experiences.
1. Manuscript submitted via the journal online submission system.
2. Primary manuscript check by the editor against the check list, to check if components of manuscript are complete and conforming to the submission requirements, and cross-check if there is duplicate submission, plagiarism. If manuscript does not meet the submission requirements, then the manuscript will be returned to the authors for corrections and resubmission.
3. If the manuscript meets the submission requirements, the editor will assign this manuscript to 2-3 external reviewers for peer-reviewing. The reviewers are choosed from the editorial board.
4. If the article lacks sufficient quality or the topic is not well within the journal scope, the editor will reject the submission without further consideration.
5. The peer-reviewers will send back the review comments with their recommendations as: accepted unchanged; minor revision; major revision; or rejected.
6. Based on the reviewers’ comments and recommendations, editors will make editorial decision.
7. The peer-review process is double blinded with the reviewers do not know whom the authors of the manuscript are, the authors do not know who the reviewers are.