JNASSM adheres to internationally recognized ethical guidelines and best practices, including principles outlined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Editors’ Responsibilities

Editors are responsible for:

• Making editorial decisions based solely on academic merit, originality, clarity, and relevance to the journal’s scope.
• Ensuring a fair, unbiased, and confidential double-blind peer-review process.
• Preventing conflicts of interest in editorial handling of manuscripts.
• Addressing ethical concerns, allegations of misconduct, and requests for corrections or retractions in a timely manner.

Reviewers’ Responsibilities

Reviewers are expected to:

• Provide objective, constructive, and timely evaluations of assigned manuscripts.
• Maintain strict confidentiality regarding manuscript content.
• Declare any potential conflicts of interest and decline review when such conflicts exist.
• Identify relevant published work not cited by the authors and report suspected ethical issues to the editor.

Authors’ Responsibilities

Authors are responsible for:

• Submitting original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere.
• Accurately reporting data, methods, and findings without fabrication or falsification.
• Properly acknowledging all sources through appropriate citation.
• Obtaining ethical approval and informed consent where required.
• Disclosing all potential conflicts of interest.
• Cooperating fully with the peer-review and revision processes.

Duties of the Editorial Advisory Board Members

Editorial Advisory Board Members are expected to:

• Provide strategic guidance on the journal’s scope, quality, and development. Uphold the journal’s ethical standards and academic credibility. Support the peer-review process when called upon. Promote the journal within the academic and professional community.

General Ethical Responsibilities

All parties involved in the publication process must:

• Act with integrity, transparency, and professionalism.
• Avoid discrimination, bias, or unethical influence in editorial or review decisions.
• Respect intellectual property rights and confidentiality.

Retraction Ethics

JNASSM may issue corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions where necessary. </>

• Retractions may occur in cases of plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification, unethical research, or serious errors affecting the validity of findings.
• Retraction notices will be clearly identified and linked to the original article.
• Authors and relevant institutions may be notified where appropriate.