The Journal of Lasers in Medical Sciences (JLMS) complies with international regulations against scientific misconduct (fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism). Any suspected act of wrongdoing in the submitted materials to the Journal will be meticulously assessed. The needful action will be taken based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines.
The JLMS asks authors to be careful about using others' words, ideas, and materials and fully cite any sources of the contents of their submitted papers if they are not original. Sentences extracted from other sources should be supported by reference citations and be in quotation marks or appropriately paraphrased.
Data falsification/fabrication: Falsification is the practice of omitting or altering research materials, data, or processes so that the research results 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 the use of falsified or fabricated data is strongly prohibited.
We treat our readers' information as private and confidential, and we will not disclose your data to third parties. The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Image manipulation: The JLMS 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 editor will request the original data from the authors to compare the manipulated figures in cases suspected of inappropriate manipulation.
Publication and Author Responsibilities
Authors must state that informed consent was obtained from all human adult participants and minors' parents or legal guardians.
The name of the appropriate institutional review board that approved the project should be stated.
Indicate in the text that the maintenance and care of experimental animals comply with National Institutes of Health guidelines for the humane use of laboratory animals or those of your Institute or agency.
Authors must acknowledge and declare any sources of funding and potential conflicting interest, such as receiving funds or fees by or holding stocks and shares in, an organization that may profit or lose through the publication of your paper. Declaring a competing interest will not lead to automatic rejection of the article, but we would like to be made aware of it.
Manuscripts must be devoid of any forms of plagiarism. They should also have appropriate citations to the related literature in the field, etc., compatible with COPE.
This Journal is for personal, noncommercial use (under the terms of cc-BY-NC 3.0). It is not authorized to modify copy, distribute, transmit, display, or publish any materials contained in the Journal without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.
Author(s) certify that neither this manuscript nor one with substantially similar content under their authorship has been published or is being considered for publication elsewhere in any language, except as described in the cover letter. They also certify that any previous presentations of this paper in meetings are mentioned in the cover letter.
Authors should not submit redundant or multiple publications.
The "Ethical Approval Code" is required for all studies on people, medical records, and human samples.
Authors should indicate in the text that the maintenance and care of experimental animals comply with National Institutes of Health guidelines for the humane use of laboratory animals or those of your Institute or agency.
Authors must acknowledge and declare any sources of funding and potential conflicting interest, such as receiving funds or fees by or holding stocks and shares in, an organization that may profit or lose through the publication of your paper. Declaring a competing interest will not lead to automatic rejection of the article, but we would like to be made aware of it.
Upon publication, each author agrees that the "JLMS" is the copyright owner of the material published in the Journal of Lasers in Medical Sciences. The users are free to copy, distribute, and display the work; and to make any reasonable noncommercial use of the work, subject to proper attribution of authorship and ownership of the rights.
Authors may use their material in presentations and subsequent publications they write or edit themselves, provided that the Journal of Lasers in Medical Sciences is notified in writing and is acknowledged as the original publication.
Responsibility for Reviewers
Review comments should be objective and constructive.
Reviewers should have no conflict of interest.
Reviewers should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited.
Reviewed articles should be treated confidentially.
Reviewers should have an advising role, and the Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision on an article.
Reviewers should provide constructive comments to improve the quality of the article.
The Editor-in-Chief has complete authority to reject/accept an article.
The Editor should have no conflict of interest.
This Journal has editorial freedom and independence.
The Editor-in-Chief is always willing to publish corrections.
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The policy of JLMS for handling submissions and reviewing manuscripts from editors, section editors, employees, and members of editorial boards is unbiased.