Ethics and Permissions

The Journal of Spirituality Research in Health Sciences considers all ethical standards required for publication in order to ensure the quality of published scientific articles and to assure readers that the results presented in published articles are authentic. This journal is subject to the publication regulations set forth in the Declaration of Helsinki.

Plagiarism, Duplicate Publication, Data Fabrication, and Distortion

The Journal of Spirituality Research in Health Sciences is committed to publishing articles that have not previously been published in any journal and are not simultaneously under review in any other journal. The journal addresses plagiarism, data fabrication, data distortion, image manipulation, duplicate publication, simultaneous submission, and other forms of scientific misconduct. Suspicious cases will be investigated in accordance with publication ethics guidelines and in proportion to the nature of the violation. All articles received by this journal are examined for plagiarism. Additionally, republishing an article, translating it into another language, or presenting it in other journals without permission is subject to the law on publication and research violations. If it is determined that an article is simultaneously under review in another journal or has previously been published elsewhere, it will be immediately removed from the review process and will be subject to the "Duplicate Publication Sanction" or DPS. If it is determined that the data, images, or any other component of an article have been manipulated or distorted, the article will be subject to the "Prohibition of Distortion and Data Fabrication" law. If it is determined that an article cites a specific author or article solely to increase that author's or article's citation count, the article will be subject to the "Prohibition of Citation Distortion" law.

Originality and Simultaneous Submission

The submitted article must be the original work of the authors and must not be under review by another journal simultaneously. Any prior publication or significant overlap with published works must be clearly declared at the time of submission.

Retractions

Based on the guidelines provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Journal of Spirituality Research in Health Sciences may retract an article if any of the following four conditions exist:

• There is clear evidence that the article's findings are unreliable or untrue. This may have occurred due to misconduct (such as data fabrication) or honest error (such as calculation errors or laboratory mistakes).

• The article's findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper citation, permission, or justification (i.e., they constitute redundant or duplicate publication).

• It contains plagiarism.

• It presents unethical reports.