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Ethical
considerations in research are a set of principles that guide your research
designs and practices. These principles include voluntary participation,
informed consent, anonymity, confidentiality, potential for harm, and
results communication.
Research must
have been conducted in accordance with international guidelines on study
ethics. In accordance with COPE guidelines, ISISnet reserves the right to
reject any manuscript that editors believe does not uphold high ethical
standards, even if authors have obtained ethical approval or if ethical
approval is not required.
we encourages
authors to follow the
ARRIVE
guidelines for the design, analysis, and reporting of scientific
research.
Research involving animal subjects
All research
involving regulated animals (that is, all live vertebrates and higher
invertebrates) must have been reviewed and approved by an ethics committee
prior to commencing the study and performed in accordance with relevant
institutional and national guidelines and regulations.
Research
involving human subjects
Research
involving human subjects should have been conducted in accordance with the
World Medical Association's
Declaration of Helsinki. Studies involving human participants must be
performed in accordance with relevant institutional and national guidelines,
with the appropriate institutional ethics committee's prior approval and
informed written consent from all human subjects involved in the study
including for publication of the results.
Research
Involving Cell Lines
Methods sections
for submissions reporting on research with cell lines should state the
origin of any cell lines. For established cell lines, the provenance should
be stated and references must also be given to either a published paper or
to a commercial source.
Research Involving Plants
Experimental research on plants (either cultivated or wild) including
collection of plant material, must comply with institutional, national, or
international guidelines.
Clinical
Trials Registration
We follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)
guidelines which require and recommend registration of clinical trials
in a public trials registry at or before the time of first patient
enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication.
The World Health
Organization (WHO) International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP)
defines a clinical trial as "any research study that prospectively assigns
human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related
interventions to evaluate the effects on health outcomes". |
