Ethics and Malpractice Statements

JSSM adheres to COPE, ICMJE, and relevant domain specific standards.

• Authorship: Adopt CRediT taxonomy; contributions must be declared. All authors approve the final manuscript and are accountable for their contributions.
• Conflicts of Interest: Financial and non financial interests must be disclosed.
• Human/Animal Research: Provide ethics approvals (IRB/IACUC or international equivalents). Clinical/device trials must register in a public registry.
• Data, Code & Materials: Deposit data and code in trusted repositories; include persistent identifiers (DOI) and a Data & Code Availability Statement.
• Preprints: JSSM welcomes preprints; cite the preprint version and link to the final article post publication.
• Plagiarism & Misconduct: Submissions are screened (e.g., iThenticate). Suspected misconduct follows COPE flowcharts.
• AI Tools Policy: AI assistants and generative tools may support writing/analysis with full disclosure in the Methods or Acknowledgements. Tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors are responsible for verifying accuracy and avoiding fabricated content or references.