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To ensure that the ethical standards of the journal are achieved, JSS editors provide ethical oversight for the publication process.
Vulnerable Populations
Per the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), ethical oversight should include, but is not limited to, policies on consent to publication, publication on vulnerable populations, ethical conduct of research using animals, ethical conduct of research using human subjects, handling confidential data and ethical business/marketing practices.
For studies involving human or animal subjects, JSS requires that information about appropriate institutional review board approval be included with the submission or described within the article.
For research involving human subjects, authors should explain how informed consent was obtained from all participants. Informed consent should be obtained if there is any reasonable possibility that complete anonymity cannot be maintained. The privacy of human subjects should never be violated without prior informed consent. Identifying information should be excluded from the study data unless the information is essential for the study purposes and the subject (or their legal representative has given prior written informed consent. However, subject information should never be falsified or modified. When informed consent has been given by the subjects, it should be included in the article.
Publication Misconduct
JSS is committed to detecting and preventing publication misconduct through its peer review and editing process. Peer reviews are instructed to perform routine checks for the following:
Software Tools
JSS maintains a membership in iThenticate and routinely screens submitted papers for plagiarism at the discretion of the editorial staff.
Reporting
Suspicion of violations of the ethical oversight policy should be made to the editor-in-chief via the Ethics Complaints and Appeals process.