Research and Publication Ethics
Developments and Experiments in Health and Medicine publishes articles that comply with ethical and scientific standards. The Editorial Board examines all submitted articles for plagiarism and republishing. If an ethical problem is detected, the Committee on Publication Ethics-COPE (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guidelines) guidelines are followed.
For clinical research, approval from the relevant Ethics Committee must be obtained in accordance with the “WMA Declaration of Helsinki-Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects” (https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/), for studies involving experimental animals, the “International Guiding Principles for Biomedical Research Involving Animals” (http://iclas.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/CIOMS-ICLAS-Principles-Final.pdf) and the “Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals” (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/guide-for-the-care-and-use-of-laboratory-animals.pdf).
In the preparation of case reports; Care should be taken to protect the patient's privacy. Identifying information and photographs of patients, hospital registration numbers and dates should not be used. For case reports, "Informed Consent" should be obtained.
Information on ethics committee approval and informed consent should be provided within the Methods section of the main text.
In experimental animal studies, procedures performed to minimize pain, and discomfort should be explained in the text.

Copyright and Authorship
All local and international publication rights of the manuscript sent to Developments and Experiments in Health and Medicine are transferred to Developments and Experiments in Health and Medicines with the “The DEHM Assignment Form” (available in the Forms tab of the website). A wet signature and scanning are not obligatory for signing the form; electronic signatures made through Adobe Acrobat (using the ‘Fill & Sign’ module in newer versions or the signature function in older versions of Acrobat Reader) are accepted as well.
The contribution of each author to the manuscript must be clearly stated on the form. After the manuscript is sent to the journal, it will not be possible to add or remove author names or change the order of authors. The journal’s practices in this regard comply with the rules of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors–ICMJE (http://www.icmje.org) and the Council of Science Editors-CSE (https://www.councilscienceeditors.org).
Your article will not be published unless you warrant that “This article is an original work, has not been published before, and is not being considered for publication elsewhere in its final form either in printed or electronic form”. The DEHM Assignment form should be signed and dated by all authors and sent along with the manuscript during the submission process.
If a manuscript contains any previous published image or text, it is the responsibility of the author to obtain authorization from copyright holders. The author is required to obtain and submit the written original permission letters for all copyrighted material used in his/her manuscript.

Conflict of Interest
All authors and reviewers must inform us about any kinds of “Conflict of Interest” (such as financial, personal, political, or academic) that would potentially affect their judgment.

Financial Disclosure
General institutional support for an author's time on the work should be distinguished from direct overall funding of the work. “The DEHM Assignment Form” available through the link below must be filled in and uploaded by the corresponding author at the time of submission for disclosure. An appropriate funding statement might be: “This study was funded by A; Dr. F's time on the work was supported by B.

Acknowledgment Permission
Author(s) should inform the editor about all forms of support including any financial support, donations or commercial connections they have received from official or private institutions related to the research from which the article originates and should indicate this in the acknowledgments section.

Plagiarism
Authors are not allowed to utilize verbatim text of previously published papers or manuscripts submitted elsewhere. All submitted manuscripts will be checked for possible similarity in any part of the work by iThenticate or Turnitin plagiarism checker. Based on the amount of plagiarism detected in a manuscript, it will be passed to the authors and ask them to rephrase copied phrases or include as direct quotations with references. COPE’s flowcharts and guidelines are approached in cases in which plagiarism is detected.

Data Fabrication/Falsification
Falsification is the practice of omitting or altering research materials, data, or processes so that the results of the research are no longer accurately reflected. Fabrication is the practice of inventing data or results and reporting them in research. Both of these misconducts are fraudulent and seriously alter the integrity of the research. Therefore, articles must be written based on original data and the use of falsified or fabricated data is strongly prohibited. In confronting cases with fabricated or falsified data COPE’s flowcharts and guidelines are followed.
Researchers who perform randomized controlled or clinical trials (RCTs) are advised to keep their original data at hand. The Journal keeps the right to ask for raw data even after publication.

Image Manipulation
Developments and Experiments in Health and Medicine encourages authors to send their original images. No specific feature within an image may be enhanced, obscured, moved, removed, or introduced. Adjustments of brightness, contrast, or color balance are acceptable as long as they are applied to the entire image and do not misrepresent any information present in the original, including the background.

Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.