Nexus Research Press upholds the highest standards of publication ethics across all its journals. The policies below apply to all manuscripts submitted to and published by NRP. NRP is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and follows COPE guidelines in all cases of suspected misconduct or dispute.
All submitted manuscripts must report original work that has not been published previously, is not currently under review elsewhere, and does not substantially duplicate any prior publication by the same authors. Simultaneous submission to more than one journal is a serious breach of publishing ethics and will result in rejection and notification of the authors' institutions. Prior dissemination as a preprint on a recognised community server is acceptable provided it is disclosed at submission.
All listed authors must have made a genuine, material contribution to the work and must have approved the final submitted version. NRP applies the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) framework; a CRediT statement is required for all research articles and reviews. Gift authorship, ghost authorship, and undisclosed AI-assisted authorship are violations of NRP policy.
All submitted manuscripts are screened using iThenticate prior to editorial assessment. Any form of plagiarism — including reproduction of text, data, or figures without appropriate attribution — results in immediate rejection. Self-plagiarism (substantial reproduction of the authors' own previously published work without disclosure) is also unacceptable.
NRP journals do not permit the use of AI-generated text as a substitute for original scientific writing. Use of AI tools to generate or substantially rework manuscript content must be disclosed in the Methods section. AI tools may not be listed as authors.
A Data Availability Statement is mandatory in all research articles published by NRP. Where primary data have been deposited in a recognised repository, the repository name, accession number or DOI, and terms of access must be stated. A Code Availability Statement is required where custom computational code is central to the findings — code should be deposited in a recognised repository with a permanent DOI.
All authors must disclose any financial or personal interests that could be perceived to influence the reported work. This includes employment, paid consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, research funding, travel grants, and pending or issued patents related to the subject of the work. Disclosures are published as part of the article record.
Research involving human participants must have received prior ethics committee approval and must have been conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Research involving vertebrate animals must comply with all applicable national regulations and must be reported in accordance with the ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines.
Authors may appeal a rejection decision in writing within 30 days by identifying a specific factual or procedural error in the review process. Complaints about editorial conduct should be directed to the Editor-in-Chief of the relevant journal, or if unresolved, to the NRP Director of Publishing Ethics.
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