Academic misconduct handling

The identification of academic misconduct by authors in the journal is mainly based on the Academic Publishing Specification-Definition of Academic Misconduct for Journals (CY/T 174-2019). The journal adopts the "Scientific and Technological Journal Academic Misconduct Literature Crosscheck System (AMLC)" of China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) to detect academic misconduct of submitted papers. The journal requires that the coincidence between the manuscript and other studies should not exceed 20%, and it should consider: (1) whether the repetitive part is the main result and viewpoint. If yes, it will not be published; (2) Whether the rest of the manuscript can support a paper if the duplicate content is expressed by reference after deletion. If not, it will not be published.

In case of doubt about the authenticity of the paper, if the author cannot provide the original pictures, original data, fund project contract, project name and other relevant supporting materials, The journal has the right to reject or withdraw the manuscript.

If academic misconduct is found in the manuscript that has been finalized and accepted, the journal has the right to reject the manuscript and notify the author’s unit and relevant journals.

For published papers, if academic misconduct is found, the journal will withdraw the manuscript, publish a withdrawal statement, and notify the author’s unit and relevant journals.