Publication and authorship

References should be arranged numerically based on the order of citation in the text following the Vancouver style. Authors are strongly encouraged to carefully review the Authors' Guide.  
A disclosure of any financial support received by the authors should be included on the title page.  
Authors are prohibited from directly copying content from previously published papers or manuscripts submitted elsewhere.  
Upon submission, authors are required to sign an Assignment Form affirming that the article is an original work, has not been previously published, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere in any format. Duplicate publication of the same research in multiple journals is not permitted.

Author's responsibilities

Authors should actively participate in the peer review process and provide suitable responses to the comments raised by peer reviewers on time.

All authors must have significantly contributed to the research and fulfill the authorship criteria.

Authors must state that all data in the article are real and authentic.

All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

Copyright: 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 manuscripts.

Peer review/responsibility for the reviewers

Judgments should be objective.

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 should advise editors, but the final decision on an article is made by the Editors-in-Chief.

Reviewers should provide constructive comments to improve the quality of the article.

Editorial responsibilities

The Editors-in-Chief have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.

Editors should have no conflict of interest with respect to articles they reject/accept.

When errors are found in a manuscript, the editors promote publication of corrections or retractions.

The anonymity of reviewers is preserved.

Issues on Publishing Ethics

The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). COPE’s flowcharts and guidelines are approached upon confronting any ethical misbehavior.

InfoScience Trends uses the COPE flowchart for the retraction of a published article.

All participants of research presented in submitted articles should be thoroughly informed about the aims of the study and any possible side effects of the drugs and intervention. Written informed consent from the participants or their legal guardians is necessary for any such studies. The Journal reserves the right to request the related documents.

InfoScience Trends precludes business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards.

Plagiarism: Use of verbatim texts from other sources without acknowledgment is prohibited. The content of all articles must be the original work of authors and must not be plagiarized from other articles. COPE’s flowcharts and guidelines are approached in cases in which plagiarism is detected.

Data falsification/fabrication: 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 the research. Both of these misconducts are fraudulent and seriously alter the integrity of research. Therefore, articles must be written based on original data and use of falsified or fabricated data is strongly prohibited.

Image manipulation: The InfoScience Trends encourages authors to send their original images. All digital images in manuscripts accepted for publication will be checked for inappropriate manipulation. 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. The editors will request the original data from the authors to compare the manipulated figures in cases suspected of inappropriate manipulation.

Journal Archiving

To guarantee long-term digital preservation, all articles published in the InfoScience Trends are archived in the Harvard Dataverse the free digital repository of open to all researcher's scholarly publications at the Harvard University.