Following COPE guidelines, JSDF will not accept any misconduct behaviors that may mislead researchers.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is not acceptable. Using the content from one's own previously published articles without proper citation is also considered plagiarism. JSDF adopts Turnitin software program for checking the originality of submissions. Manuscripts with a high similarity index may be rejected.
Fabrication and falsification
Fabrication and falsification of data or images will mislead researchers. JSDF strongly opposes such practices and will reject suspicious submissions.
Duplicate submission
Duplicate submission of a manuscript that has been published or submitted to other journals at the same time will not be considered.
Manipulation
Peer review manipulation is expressly forbidden. Eliminate excessive manipulative citation included in the peer review process by reviewers. Reviewers are encouraged to suggest that authors add references that are necessary and constructive to the research. Reviewers' own articles that do not contribute to the scholarly content of the author's work must not be oversold for the sole purpose of inflating the number of citations to the reviewer's own article.
Authors are prohibited from over-citing their own previously published articles. JSDF's editorial board will determine self-citation thresholds, which authors must strictly adhere to in order to eliminate any suspicion of citation manipulation.
Editors will be involved in the journal management process to detect citation manipulations from authors or reviewers.
As behaviors above are illegal academic and very unethical, the chief editor will deal with it seriously. If any misconduct action is verified, and JSDF will not receive any new submission from these authors in three years. If the allegations are disputable, their institutes are responsible to cooperate with the journal in investigating allegations.
If there are any suspicious allegations of the processing of articles especially the peer review process, referring to For Reviewers, the chief editor will receive the complaint, and will investigate the entire process for the referees. The journal will follow the procedures described in COPE and Publishing Ethics for handling allegations of misconduct.