Allegations of misconduct will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis while following guidance produced by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) – see also the above section on Complaints and appeals.
Misconduct includes but is not limited to:
- Plagiarism
- Falsification or fabrication of data
- Redundant or duplicate publication
- Simultaneous submission
- Improprieties of authorship
- Misappropriation of the ideas of others
- A lack of declaration of conflicts of interest
Readers that suspect misconduct in a published article are encouraged to report this to the editor-in-chief.