RESEARCH MICRO adheres to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the Committee on Publication Ethics recommendations (COPE).
The ICMJE recommends that authorship should be based on the following 4 criteria:
Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; and
Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
Final approval of the version to be published; and
Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
HUMAN AND ANIMAL RIGHTS
RESEARCH MICRO follows the ICMJE's Recommendations for the Protection of Research Participants. In research studies involving human subjects, authors must include a statement in the methodology section to confirm that informed consent was obtained.
RESEARCH MICRO also requires all submissions that include use of animal subjects to adhere to the guidelines published by the International Association of Veterinary Editors. If a research study has been given an exemption from requiring ethics approval, this should also be declared in the manuscript under the methodology section. For more information please visit the ICMJE's website.
PLAGIARISM AND DATA INTEGRITY
Appropriate author acknowledgment must be clearly indicated in the submitted manuscript. In-text citations must be inserted appropriately and citations must be correctly associated with a corresponding reference list. In cases of plagiarism, inappropriate data processing, disputed authorship, or duplicate publication, the RESEARCH MICRO reserves the right to retract the published article.
Based on the retraction guidelines of COPE, the retracted article (including the title and authors in the retraction heading) and the reason for retraction will be specified promptly on the journal website. If due to honest error a small part of an article proves to be misleading, RESEARCH MICRO considers issuing a correction.
EDITORIAL EXPRESSIONS OF CONCERN
RESEARCH MICRO is a member of, and subscribes to the principles of, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Retraction Guidelines describe when journals could issue an Editorial Expressions of Concern.
RESEARCH MICRO may consider issuing an Editorial Expressions of Concern if our Editors receive indication of possible research or publication misconduct. If after investigation by RESEARCH MICRO team, more evidence becomes available, the Editorial Expressions of Concern will be replaced by a retraction notice. However, if after investigation the article is shown to be reliable, the Editorial Expressions of Concern will be replaced by an exonerating statement. For more information, please see Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines.
DATA SHARING POLICY
RESEARCH MICRO publishes research article that is reliable and follows the international standard for scientific research. Figures/Images should precisely replicate the original data.
RESEARCH MICRO may contact corresponding author and request source data for any figure/image before publication.
RESEARCH MICRO team encourages authors to submit their database used in the research study as supplementary files (appendix) or host database on the authors’ personal or institutional website.