Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Ethical Policies:
• The journal will act by the relevant international rules of publication and research ethics (COPE guidelines, WAME resources, WMA policies, and ORI) if any ethical misconduct is suspected. We expect authors to follow the World Medical Association's (WMA) Declaration of Helsinki.
• An ethics committee's approval of research protocols following international agreements WMA Declaration of Helsinki is required for all studies. We need every research article submitted to include a statement that the study obtained ethics approval (or a statement that it was not needed and why), including the name of the ethics committee(s) or institutional review board(s), the number/ID and Date of the approval(s).
• It is the authors' responsibility to protect the confidentiality of patients in case reports. For photographs that can reveal the patient's identity, the patient's consent form signed by the patient and/or his legal representatives and written consent must be stated in the text.
• All articles submitted to our journal are evaluated with plagiarism detection programs (iThenticate, Turnitin). It is recommended that the similarity rate be 30% or less. The similarity report should be uploaded to the system.

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