Editorial Policies
License and Copyright
International Pharmacy Acta (IPA) operates under a Diamond Open Access publishing model. The type of article reuse is governed by user licenses in alignment with international publishing standards. Authors retain the copyright of their work and grant the journal an exclusive publishing license through a signed License and Copyright Agreement form submitted upon manuscript submission. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits readers to download, share, and adapt the material for non-commercial purposes, provided that the original source and authors are properly cited.
License and Copyright Agreement form
Anti-Plagiarism Policy
To maintain the utmost scholarly integrity, all manuscripts submitted to IPA undergo rigorous screening using advanced anti-plagiarism software prior to peer review. Manuscripts exhibiting high text similarity, redundancy, or unoriginal content will be immediately rejected. In cases of confirmed severe plagiarism or scientific fraud, the responsible authors will be placed on the journal’s submission blacklist, and any previously published affected articles will be formally retracted and watermarked in accordance with COPE guidelines.
Privacy Statement
The names, affiliations, email addresses, and personal data entered into the IPA submission and journal management system will be used exclusively for the stated operational and communication purposes of the journal. This information will not be made available for any other commercial or external use, nor shared with any third party, in strict compliance with data protection and privacy standards.
Conflicts of Interest
Authors are required to fully disclose all financial, professional, personal, or institutional conflicts of interest that could inappropriately influence or bias their research, manuscript preparation, or interpretation by submitting a signed Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form at the time of submission. All funding sources, grants, and material supports utilized for the execution of the study must be explicitly declared within the form and the manuscript.
