Publication and authorship
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/legislation_en.htm
Author's responsibilities
Authors are obliged to participate in peer review process. Contributing authors are expected to have significantly contributed to the research. The corresponding author should provide a statement that all data in the manuscript are real and authentic. Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
Peer review / responsibility for the reviewers
Judgments in peer reviewing should be objective. The process of peer reviewing depends to a large extent on trust, and requires that everyone involved behaves responsibly and ethically.
Reviewers should have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the research funders. Reviewers should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited.
Reviewed articles should be treated confidentially; reviewers therefore should keep manuscripts and the information they contain strictly confidential. Reviewers must not publicly discuss authors’ work and must not appropriate authors’ ideas before the manuscript is published. Reviewers must not retain the manuscript for their personal use and should destroy copies of manuscripts after submitting their reviews.
Reviewers are expected to respond promptly to requests to review and to submit reviews within the time agreed. Reviewers’ comments should be constructive, honest, and polite.
Editorial responsibilities
Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.
Editors will have no conflict of interest with respect to articles they reject/accept. Editorial decisions are based on the relevance of a manuscript to the journal and on the manuscript’s originality, quality, and contribution to evidence about important questions. Those decisions are not by any means influenced by commercial interests, personal relationships or agendas, or findings that are negative or that credibly challenge accepted wisdom. In addition, authors should submit for publication or otherwise make publicly available, and editors should not exclude from consideration for publication, studies with findings that are not statistically significant or that have inconclusive findings. Such studies may provide evidence that combined with that from other studies through meta-analysis might still help answer important questions, and a public record of such negative or inconclusive findings may prevent unwarranted replication of effort or otherwise be valuable for other researchers considering similar work.
A paper will be accepted when reasonably certain. When errors are found correction or retraction will be published. Anonymity of reviewers is preserved.
Publishing ethics issues
The editorial board vows to monitor/safeguard publishing ethics as stated in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guideline resources at http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines and the Publication Ethics Resource Kit (PERK) at http://www.elsevier.com/editors/perk/about-perk
The Egyptian Journal of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology vows to maintain the integrity of the academic record, precludes business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards. It will always publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies and will not accept any plagiarism or fraudulent data.
Guidelines for retracting articles
The editorial board has the right to consider retracting a publication if there is clear evidence for instance of data fabrication, plagiarism, or the results have previously been published without permission.
Liability
Although articles are subject to review and editing, statements and opinions expressed in the articles and communications herein are those of the author(s); the Editor(s) and publisher disclaim any responsibility or liability for such material. Neither the Editor(s) nor the publisher guarantee, warrant, or endorse any product or service advertised in this publication, nor do they guarantee any claim made by the manufacturer of such product or service.