Code of conduct for authors

The authors of manuscripts submitted to GECP Lung Cancer & Clinical Research are required to adhere to principles of honesty, integrity, responsibility, and transparency.

They must disclose any potential conflict of interest and/or funding, scholarships, or payment of fees from private sector, received within the last 3 years, or during the course of their research.

The following actions will be considered bad practices and may lead to the retraction of the manuscript:

• • Plagiarism
  • Lack of adherence to international ethical standards in the development of research.
  • Data fractioning or salami slicing
  • Falsification, appropriation, or unauthorized reproduction of data, figures, images, algorithms, or tables.
  • Duplicate or redundant publication
  • Manipulation of bibliographic citations, including unwarranted self-citation
  • Omission of relevant information that has a direct impact on the content of the manuscript.
  • Unjustified alteration of the authors’ list

For detailed information, please refer to: https://publicationethics.org/