Policies
All submitted manuscripts must comply with the described Policies. Authors of submitted manuscripts are solely responsible for the content and adherence to the prescribed Publication Ethics.
By submitting a manuscript, authors guarantee that the work is original, has not been previously published, and is not currently under consideration by any other journal. Any form of redundant publication or plagiarism will result in immediate rejection.
Publication Ethics Statement
Sqripta adheres to the COPE principles of publication ethics, ensuring authentic and credible research for all journals it publishes. The journal Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine follows the COPE Core practices in publishing scholarly literature, and COPE Guidelines on publication ethics to secure the integrity of the journal’s management, publication processes and practices, including the conduct of the Editorial Board and participants of the peer review process, and the originality and credibility of the authorship and published research.
Editorial Independence: The Editorial Board of the journal Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine is independent of the publisher in its decision-making. In accordance with the COPE guidelines, the Editorial Board makes independent and final decisions on issues such as authorship and contributorship, research ethics, conflicts of interest, plagiarism, data, peer review integrity, misconduct allegations, etc. To maintain strict separation of duties, the publisher’s ownership and administrative management (including the role of Managing Editor) are strictly confined to technical and organizational workflows, and hold no authority, influence, or voting rights over academic evaluation and final editorial decisions.
Submission Compliance: All submitted manuscripts must comply with the journal’s Policies. Authors are solely responsible for the content and for ensuring strict adherence to the prescribed Publication Ethics. Submitted manuscripts that do not comply with these Ethics or other implied Policies will be rejected with an explanation from the Editorial Board.
Peer Review Integrity: The journal Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine conducts a double-blind (anonymous) peer review with a minimum of two independent experts in the field of the submitted manuscript. In the Conduct policies, the obligations for editors, reviewers and authors are prescribed to ensure the integrity of the publication and review process, as well as the published research.
Reporting Ethical Issues and Misconduct: In the event of an ethical issue or allegation of misconduct, (such as copyright disputes, plagiarism, conflict of interest, data fabrication/falsification, undeclared use of AI, image manipulation, duplicate submission or publication, etc.), any party (including whistleblowers, authors, reviewers or other users) aware of such a breach or denied of any right should immediately contact the Managing Editor of the Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine at editorial.erdm@sqripta.com.
Investigation Process (Ethics Committee): The Managing Editor will carefully, in confidence, examine all aspects of the reported event and inform the Editor-in-Chief. In case of a serious issue, the Editor-in-Chief will appoint an Ethics and Misconduct Allegations Committee, consisting of 5 members of the Editorial Board, to conduct an impartial and confidential investigation. The investigation and consultation may be extended to other parties and external experts if necessary. After considering all aspects of the case and conducting a thorough investigation, the appointed Committee will inform the Editor-in-Chief of its opinion. The Editor-in-Chief will make the final decision and inform all parties involved.
Research Involving Human Subjects: All research involving human subjects, personal data, or human tissue must comply with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Policies regarding anonymisation, confidentiality, and informed consent strictly apply to protect participant privacy. Authors are required to state the name of the institutional ethics committee or review board (IRB) that approved the study, including the specific ethical approval reference number.
Editorial Authority: Following COPE guidelines, Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine holds the right to reject any manuscript that editors decide does not meet ethical standards, regardless of any ethical approval authors obtained from a third party.
Guidelines for Human and Animal Research: Authors are encouraged to follow the Declaration of Helsinki, Belmont Report and Common Rule for designing human subject research, and the ARRIVE guidelines for animal research.
Human Subjects: If the research involves human subjects, this must be clearly stated in the manuscript. Such research must be supported by a formal statement of ethical approval (including the name of the ethics committee and approval number, where applicable) or proof of informed consent to participation.
Animal Subjects: If animal subjects were used in the research, it must be clearly stated. Such research must be supported by a statement following international laws or listed relevant guidelines and regulations.
Safety and Hazards: Any kind of unconventional hazards related to procedures, equipment or chemicals used in research must be clearly identified.
Any potential conflict of interest affecting the publication process from submission to publication, especially peer review, must be disclosed.
Scope of Relationships: Editors, reviewers, and authors must not have any family, friendship, partnership, affiliation, financial, business, academic rivalry, or any other relationship that could compromise their judgment, decisions, or actions.
Disclosure Requirements:
- Authors are required to disclose any potential conflict of interest before submitting a manuscript to the Managing Editor at editorial.erdm@sqripta.com. Regardless of the direct disclosure to the Managing Editor, a formal ‘Conflict of Interest’ statement must be included within the manuscript.
- Reviewers are required to disclose any potential conflict of interest before accepting to review a manuscript to the Managing Editor at editorial.erdm@sqripta.com.
- Editors are required to disclose any potential conflict of interest before accepting to handle a manuscript to the Managing Editor at editorial.erdm@sqripta.com.
Resolution and Decisions: If in doubt about what to disclose, please contact the Managing Editor at editorial.erdm@sqripta.com. If the reported conflict of interest exceeds the authority of the Managing Editor, the Editor-in-Chief will be notified for resolution. The Editor-in-Chief holds the right to investigate and make a final decision on discovered conflicts at any stage of publication or post-publication of the manuscript in question.
Requirement for Transparency: All sources of financial support for the research must be fully disclosed. This includes, but is not limited to, grants, industrial sponsorship, or institutional funding.
Reporting Details: Authors are required to provide the full names of the funding organisations and the specific identification (numbers) of the grants or projects involved. If the research received no specific funding, the authors should state: “This research received no external funding.” The funding disclosure should be placed in a dedicated ‘Funding’ section before the References.
Commitment to Integrity: Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine is dedicated to the integrity of peer review and compliance with the highest peer-review standards. We conduct a pre-publication, double-blind (double-anonymous) peer review. Editors mediate all interactions between reviewers and authors to ensure impartiality. Peer reviews are not published before publication. Review is facilitated by the journal.
Initial Editorial Assessment: Each manuscript is first assessed by the handling Editor for suitability regarding the journal’s Aims & Scope, as well as compliance with the Instructions for Authors and template. Manuscripts that do not meet these criteria will be rejected with an official opinion.
Editorial Review and Plagiarism Check: Suitable manuscripts undergo an internal review where the Editor evaluates originality (using iThenticate/CrossCheck), research design, methodology, and scientific significance. Manuscripts lacking these qualities will be rejected or returned for improvement before being sent to external experts.
External Peer Review: Manuscripts meeting the required standards are sent to a minimum of two independent experts. In cases of interdisciplinary research, the number of reviewers will reflect the disciplines covered to ensure a comprehensive evaluation.
Revisions and Final Decision: The review process implies a minimum of one round of reviewer suggestions and author improvements, up to as many rounds as necessary for the manuscript to be accepted under objective and professional conditions. Authors must address reviewer suggestions with reasoned and objective improvements. The final decision to publish is made by the Editor-in-Chief after receiving positive recommendations from the reviewers and the handling Editor.
Confidentiality and Property: Review reports are confidential and must not be disclosed before publication. While reviewers retain copyright of their assessments, the reports are part of the journal’s confidential records. The anonymity of the reviewers is maintained in perpetuity, and review reports remain confidential even after the manuscript’s publication.
Timeline: While there is no guarantee of acceptance, we strive for an efficient process. Acceptance of a manuscript for publication depends solely on the professional opinions of the reviewers and the authors’ willingness to improve. A submitted manuscript may be rejected at any time during the review process for a variety of objective reasons, which will be communicated to all parties involved before a final decision is made. The average time from submission to publication is approximately 6 weeks, depending on the responsiveness of all parties involved.
Submissions by Editorial Board Members and Reviewers
Sqripta and Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine enforce a strict, transparent procedure for handling manuscripts submitted by members of the Editorial Board, editors, or regular peer reviewers, ensuring a completely unbiased evaluation:
- Complete Recusal: If a member of the Editorial Board or a regular reviewer submits a manuscript to the journal, they are completely recused from the entire editorial and peer-review workflow of that submission.
- Reciprocal Handling Protocol: To guarantee absolute impartiality and independence:
- In the event that the Editor-in-Chief submits a manuscript as an author, the entire peer-review process, evaluation, and final decision-making authority will be handled exclusively by the Associate Editor.
- In the event that an Associate Editor submits a manuscript as an author, the entire peer-review process, evaluation, and final decision-making authority will be handled exclusively by the Editor-in-Chief.
- Role of the Managing Editor: The Managing Editor (the publisher) will perform strictly administrative and technical routing of the manuscript within the Website’s submission backend to ensure the system firewall is maintained. The Managing Editor holds no authority, influence, or voting rights over the academic evaluation or the final editorial decisions.
- Anonymity and System Firewalls: The submitting author (even if they are the Editor-in-Chief or an Associate Editor) will have no access to the peer-review tracking, reviewer identities, or editorial correspondence associated with their own manuscript within the backend of the platform.
- Rigorous Peer Review: Submissions by board members must undergo the exact same rigorous, double-blind peer-review process as any external submission, requiring at least two independent, positive external review reports.
- Transparency Statement: Upon publication, the article will feature a prominent, mandatory declaration (e.g., “This article was independenty evaluated and edited by [Editor-in-Chief / Associate Editor]. The authoring Editorial Board member was completely recused from the peer-review and decision-making processes.”) to guarantee full transparency to readers and indexing databases.
Open Access Statement
Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine is an open-access journal. All published articles are available to users free of charge immediately upon publication.
User Rights: Under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license, users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, remix, adapt, build upon, or link to the full texts of the published articles in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes, without asking prior permission from Sqripta, Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine or the author, provided appropriate credit is given to the original work.
No Barriers: All published articles are available for free and in open access without delay. There is no embargo period or requirement for users to register to read/access the content. Full-text articles are available in PDF and HTML formats to ensure maximum accessibility and digital preservation.
Licensing
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0): REndodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine applies the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) license to all published articles. This license ensures that the research is freely available while maintaining high standards of attribution and openness.
User Permissions:
This license allows users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the content in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes, provided that:
- Appropriate credit is given to the original authors.
- Any modified material is licensed under identical terms (ShareAlike).
Authors’ Rights: Authors publishing articles in Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine agree to have the CC BY-SA 4.0 license applied to their article, enabling the freedom of reuse and ensuring that the published articles can be used without barriers for research purposes. Authors retain full copyright of their work. The terms of the CC BY-SA 4.0 license do not apply to authors, as they are the copyright holders. By publishing in the journal, authors grant Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine the right of first publication. The license applies to all other users, such as readers and the publisher, Sqripta.
Copyright
Authors retain the copyright of their published articles without restrictions, while granting Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine the right of first publication and other non-exclusive publishing rights.
Author Charges
Diamond Open Access: Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine does not charge Article Processing Charges (APC), submission fees, or any other publishing fees. Authors can submit and publish their manuscripts completely free of charge.
No Hidden Costs: This “no-fee” policy applies to all authors, regardless of their institutional affiliation or location. Consequently, the journal does not require a waiver policy. All costs associated with the publication process are covered by the publisher, Sqripta.
Repository Policy (self-archiving)
Promotion of Open Access: Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine promotes open access and encourages authors to share their research widely, while ensuring proper attribution and access to the final published version of the research. Authors retain the copyright to the published articles.
Permitted Versions and Repositories: Authors may archive the preprint, the submitted version of the article and the Author Accepted Manuscript, which is the peer-reviewed and accepted version of the article, into institutional or public repositories and websites. A statement accompanying the deposit should indicate that the article has been submitted or accepted for publication in the Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine. After publication, authors must link these versions to the final version of the published article with a DOI on the journal’s website.
Self-Archiving: Authors are encouraged to self-archive the final version of their published articles (Version of Record) into institutional or public repositories and websites. For this purpose, authors are strongly encouraged to use the final PDF version published on the website of the journal. The final version is a peer-reviewed, accepted, copyedited, and formatted article assigned with a DOI and published on the journal’s website.
Conditions for Archiving:
- No Embargo: There is no embargo period for any version of the article.
- Attribution: All deposited versions must include a statement indicating that the article is submitted to, accepted by, or published in Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine.
- Linking: After publication, authors must link all archived versions to the final published article using its DOI on the journal’s website.
- Jisc search (Sherpa Romeo): The journal’s self-archiving policies are registered and discoverable via Sherpa Romeo.
Archiving Policy
Digital Preservation: Sqripta ensures long-term digital preservation and accessibility of the content published in the Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine.
National Archiving: All articles published on the Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine website are archived and permanently stored at Croatian Web Archive HAW as part of the Digital Collections of the National and University Library in Zagreb.
Persistent Identifiers: A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is assigned to every published article as a means of persistent identification, increased discoverability, preservation and long-term access.
Plagiarism
Zero Tolerance Policy: Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine has no tolerance for plagiarism, including direct copying, paraphrasing without attribution, self-plagiarism, mosaic plagiarism, etc. Each submitted manuscript is screened for originality using iThenticate/CrossCheck (plagiarism detection software).
Evaluation of Similarity: There is no fixed “acceptable percentage” of similarity. Every case is examined individually. Similarity does not immediately imply plagiarism, so the Editorial Board will perform a qualitative assessment of the similarity report to distinguish between standard terminology, legitimate citations, and potential plagiarism. In case of unacceptable similarity, suspicious content or lack of referencing, Editors will contact authors for an explanation. If the explanation is not satisfactory and the questionable parts of the text are not changed in line with ethical standards and protecting intellectual property, the manuscript will be rejected.
AI-Generated Content: The use of generative AI technology to compile manuscript content is prohibited by the journal’s Artificial Intelligence Policy. Undisclosed text generated by AI will be treated as plagiarism.
Post-Publication Discovery: If plagiarism is reported or discovered after publication, the Editor-in-Chief (or a designated committee) will conduct a thorough investigation. If proven, the article will be formally retracted and watermarked accordingly in the journal’s archive.
Citation
No Tolerance for Manipulation: Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine has no tolerance for citation manipulation in any form.
Author Responsibilities: Authors must properly cite all sources used in their research. Excessive self-citation or “citation padding” to artificially increase personal citation metrics is strictly prohibited.
Editorial and Reviewer Integrity: Editors and reviewers are prohibited from requiring authors to include citations to their own (or their associates’) work without a clear, objective scientific reason. Any such attempt at coercive citation should be reported immediately to the Managing Editor.
AI and Automated Tools
Commitment to Authenticity: Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine requires absolute authenticity from authors, reviewers, and editors. Consequently, the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and automated large language models (LLMs) to create core scientific texts, reviews, expert opinions, and official editorial decisions is strictly prohibited at any stage of the peer-review and publication process.
Non-Human Authorship Disclaimer: In strict accordance with COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines, AI tools cannot be listed as an author or co-author on any manuscript submitted to the journal, as AI software cannot accept legal, ethical, or accountability requirements for the research.
Authors’ Responsibility: The use of generative AI technology in drafting a manuscript is unacceptable due to the risk of incorporating non-peer-reviewed, fabricated, or inaccurate sources. This prohibition explicitly extends to the generation of research images, architectural figures, engineering plans, and data graphs, as AI generation may inaccurately represent or manipulate the underlying empirical research data.
Editorial and Reviewer Integrity: Reviewers and editors are strictly prohibited from utilizing generative AI tools to formulate comments, suggestions, peer-review reports, or editorial assessments. This measure ensures that the peer-review process remains a purely human expert evaluation and protects the strict confidentiality of unpublished manuscripts, which must never be uploaded into external AI systems or learning databases.
Permitted Tools and Disclosure: This policy does not apply to basic, non-generative spelling/grammar checkers (e.g., standard text processors) or reference management software. These tools are considered standard academic aids and do not compromise research authenticity. However, if any advanced automated tools were utilized for technical language editing or translation, authors must explicitly disclose this assistance upon submission within their Cover Letter.
Anonymisation
Informed Consent: Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine requires authors to obtain signed informed consent for all submitted manuscripts involving human subjects.
Prohibited Identifiers: Manuscripts must not include direct identifiers such as names, geographic locations (place of residence), exact age, identification numbers (ID card or passport), biometric data (fingerprints, facial geometry, retinal scan, etc.), or indirect identifiers such rare job titles or specific combinations of characters, etc., or photographs containing identifiable facial features that could lead to the identification or re-identification of individuals. Any photographs must be edited to ensure anonymity; identifiable facial features must be professionally blurred or masked to prevent recognition.
Data Anonymisation: Authors are required to irreversibly anonymise data so it can no longer be linked to specific individuals, ensuring compliance with the GDPR.
Consent Retention: The signed consent forms must be retained by the authors and made available to the Editorial Board only upon specific request.
Authors’ Conduct
Responsibility and Originality: Authorship implies accountability for the research presented. Authors guarantee that the work is authentic, provides an accurate representation of the underlying data, and includes sufficient references to enable replication. Deceptive or intentionally incorrect statements represent unethical conduct and are unacceptable. All manuscripts must be submitted in strict compliance with the journal’s Policies and Instructions for Authors.
Plagiarism and Duplicate Submission: Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine has zero tolerance for plagiarism; all manuscripts are checked via detection software. Simultaneous submission to multiple journals or redundant publication (submitting the same research as new) is strictly prohibited. All information used from other sources should be appropriately credited under the licence under which it was published. All scholarly literature that influenced the research or was directly used must be appropriately cited.
Disclosure and Conflicts: Authors must disclose all sources of financial support and any significant conflicts of interest that could influence the results. The use of generative AI tools must also be disclosed. If no conflict exists, a statement “The authors declare no conflict of interest” must be included.
Authorship Criteria (CRediT): The authors listed on a submitted manuscript are required to have substantial contributions to Conceptualisation, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualisation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing (Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine uses the Contributor Role Taxonomy – CrediT to describe the key types of contributions made to the production of research articles). Individuals without such contributions must not be listed. Crediting someone without real contributions or leaving out someone with real contributions is not ethical. Individuals who contributed but do not meet authorship criteria should be listed in the Acknowledgements. Affiliation should reflect the institution where the research was primarily conducted. The order of authorship should reflect the importance of the contribution, with the principal author listed first. All authors of a submitted manuscript should approve the final version and designate a corresponding author before submission.
Communication and Errors: Corresponding authors are responsible for and required to cooperate with the Editors and reviewers, providing accurate, argumented and timely responses to their actions and requests during the submission, review and publication process. They can file a complaint to the Managing Editor at editorial.erdm@sqripta.com against the assigned Editor or reviewer at any time in case of unethical and unprofessional conduct. In case of discovering a fundamental error post-publication, authors are required to inform the Managing Editor at editorial.erdm@sqripta.com. After the investigation has been carried out and the error has been proven, the article will be retracted, or an erratum will be published.
Changes in Authorship: Adding new authors after submission is generally not allowed, except when required by the peer-review process (extensions in the research requiring new researchers). In that case, an accurate definition of contribution is required. For changes in authors’ names or error corrections, authors should contact the Managing Editor at editorial.erdm@sqripta.com with relevant proof.
Data Availability: Authors are encouraged to provide a Data Availability Statement. While stating that “The supporting data is available on request from the corresponding author” is acceptable, the journal strongly encourages depositing anonymised data in public or institutional repositories and providing a persistent identifier (DOI).
Editors’ Conduct
Equality and Fairness: Editors are required to screen each submitted manuscript for research design, valid methodology and scientific significance, regardless of sex, race, nationality, language, religion, political or other opinion, or status of the authors, following the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations. Editorial decisions are based solely on the merit of the work and are not influenced by commercial interests. Editors must recuse themselves from the peer review process in cases where a conflict of interest exists, such as direct collaboration or institutional affiliation with the authors.
Peer Review Management: Editors are required to ensure just and impartial double-blind peer review with a minimum of two independent experts in the field of the submitted manuscript within a reasonable timeframe so that all participants (reviewers and authors) have sufficient time to comment and correct, while taking into account timely publication. Editors are required to avoid biased or fraudulent reviewers.
Confidentiality: Editors are required to handle submitted manuscripts and all related communication with authors and reviewers confidentially. The disclosure of authors’ or reviewers’ identities to any party inside or outside the peer review process during the process is strictly forbidden. While authors’ identities become public upon the publication of the manuscript, the identities of the reviewers remain strictly confidential in perpetuity to ensure the integrity of the double-blind peer review process.
Integrity of Content: Editors may not share, adapt or use unpublished content from submitted manuscripts for any purpose without the authors’ explicit consent, regardless of the editorial outcome.
Final Decision: The Editor-in-Chief holds the final authority on the publication of reviewed articles. In cases of uncertainty, the Editor-in-Chief may consult other Editorial Board members or initiate a new round of peer review to ensure the highest scientific standards.
For rules regarding submissions by editors themselves, please see the section ‘Submissions by Editorial Board Members and Reviewers’.
Reviewers’ Conduct
Ethical Obligation: Reviewers are the foundation of the integrity of published research and are obligated to conduct reviews ethically and responsibly. They should only agree to review if they possess the necessary expertise and can remain impartial. Reviewers must respect the double-blind review process and refrain from any attempts to identify the authors of the manuscript. All reviewers are expected to comply with Instructions for Reviewers.
Conflicts of Interest: Reviewers must declare all potential conflicts of interest before accepting an invitation. If a conflict is discovered, the reviewer will be recused from the process and replaced to ensure objectivity.
Objectivity and Feedback: Reviewers are required to assess the originality, research design, and scientific relevance of the manuscript, providing objective and constructive feedback within the agreed deadline. Reviewers should promptly notify the Managing Editor if they anticipate being unable to meet the agreed deadline, allowing for timely adjustments to the evaluation process.
AI and Confidentiality: Reviewers may not use generative AI technology to review or form an opinion on the assigned manuscript, as this violates the confidentiality of the unpublished work.
Integrity of Content: Reviewers may not share, adapt or use unpublished content from manuscripts for any purpose without the authors’ explicit consent. Manuscripts under peer review and all related correspondence are strictly confidential.
Reporting Misconduct: Reviewers are required to notify the Managing Editor at editorial.erdm@sqripta.com regarding any ethical concerns, including inappropriate conduct, copyright disputes, suspected plagiarism, conflict of interest, figure or data fabrication, duplicate submission, etc.
For rules regarding manuscripts authored by regular reviewers, please refer to the section ‘Submissions by Editorial Board Members and Reviewers’.
Confidentiality
Scope of Protection: The Editorial Board of Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine protects the confidentiality of all submitted manuscripts and associated data. Confidentiality requirements extend to rejected manuscripts, ensuring that unpublished research remains protected and is not disclosed to any third party.
Access Control: Access is strictly limited to the Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor, the Editorial Board member assigned to the manuscript, the assigned reviewers, and administrative staff involved in the publication process.
Nondisclosure Obligations: All participants are bound by confidentiality obligations which protect sensitive information from disclosure to unauthorised parties. The identity of reviewers and internal editorial discussions remains confidential even after the publication of the manuscript.
Appeals
Submission of Appeal: Authors may appeal an editorial decision if they can provide clear evidence of a factual error or a significant procedural lapse in the peer review process. Authors should submit appeals against Editorial decisions to the Managing Editor at editorial.erdm@sqripta.com within 30 days of the decision.
Review Process: The Editor-in-Chief may form an Appeals Committee, consisting of 5 members of the Editorial Board who were not involved in the original decision, to consider the appeal. During the appeal process, the manuscript remains under consideration by Endodontics and Restorative Dental Medicine and must not be submitted to any other journal.
Final Decision: The decision of the Appeals Committee is final. No further objections or subsequent appeals regarding the same manuscript will be considered.
Post-Publication Corrections and Retractions
Corrections: If a significant error or inaccuracy is discovered in a published article that does not invalidate the research findings, the journal will publish a Correction (Erratum or Corrigendum). The original article will remain available, but a link to the correction will be prominently displayed.
Retractions: In cases of serious scientific misconduct, fundamental errors that undermine the conclusions, or proven plagiarism, the journal follows the COPE Retraction Guidelines. A Retraction Note will be published, linked to the original article, clearly stating the reasons for the retraction and who is instigating the action. The original article will be retained in the archive but clearly marked as “RETRACTED” to maintain the integrity of the scientific record.
Expressions of Concern: If there is inconclusive evidence of research misconduct or an ongoing investigation, the Editor-in-Chief may issue an Expression of Concern to notify readers until a final decision is reached.
Complaints
Scope: This policy covers complaints regarding journal policies, procedures, or editorial conduct that fall outside the scope of the Reporting Ethical Issues and Misconduct and Appeals Policy.
Submission: All complaints should be directed to the Managing Editor at editorial.erdm@sqripta.com. Each complaint will be reviewed thoroughly, and the complainant will receive a formal response regarding the Editorial decision.
Escalation: If a complaint involves a complex issue or indicates a potential serious breach of policy, the Editor-in-Chief will be notified. In such cases, a special committee may be formed to conduct an impartial investigation and provide a final resolution.