Publication Ethics

Ethical standards for publication exist to ensure high-quality scientific publications, maintain public trust in scientific findings, and guarantee that authors receive appropriate credit for their original ideas. The Bulletin of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (BMCS) is strictly committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and strictly follows the core practices and guidelines set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Authors are fully responsible for adhering to these ethical codes in their submissions. Any form of unethical behavior, including but not limited to plagiarism, multiple submissions, or data fabrication, is strictly prohibited. If such misconduct is detected, the manuscript will be directly rejected, future submissions from the involved authors may be blocked, and the misconduct may be reported to the authors' affiliated institutions or funding agencies.

To maintain the integrity of the academic record, all submitted manuscripts undergo rigorous plagiarism checking conducted by BMCS prior to the peer-review process.

Plagiarism

BMCS is committed to publishing only original material that has neither been published nor is currently under review elsewhere. Manuscripts found to contain plagiarized content from other sources—whether published or unpublished—will face immediate rejection and plagiarism sanctions.

Duplicate Submission

Manuscripts found to have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere will incur severe sanctions for duplicate submission. If authors have used their own previously published work, or work currently under review, as a foundation for a newly submitted manuscript, they are required to explicitly cite the previous work and clearly articulate how the new submission offers substantial, novel contributions beyond the original scope.

Citation Manipulation

Submitted manuscripts found to include citations whose primary purpose is to artificially inflate the citation count of a specific author’s work or articles published in a particular journal will incur citation manipulation sanctions.

Data Fabrication and Falsification

Manuscripts found to contain fabricated or falsified data, experimental results, or manipulated images will face immediate rejection. Such severe ethical violations will incur strict sanctions, including the potential notification of the authors' host institutions.

Ethical Approval, Consent, and Use of Data

Research involving human participants, animals, clinical samples, personal data, surveys, interviews, questionnaires, laboratory tests, field experiments, or tested datasets must comply with all applicable ethical standards and legal requirements. Authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary ethical approval, informed consent, institutional permission, data-use authorization, or other relevant approvals before conducting the study or using the data.

Where applicable, manuscripts must clearly state the name of the approving ethics committee or relevant authority, the approval number, and the approval date. For studies using publicly available, institutional, experimental, agricultural, environmental, biological, or secondary datasets, authors must ensure that all required permissions, licenses, or ethical clearances have been obtained and that the data source is properly cited.

Manuscripts that fail to provide evidence of required ethical approval, informed consent, data-use permission, or legal authorization may be rejected at any stage of the editorial process. If ethical violations are discovered after publication, BMCS reserves the right to issue a correction, expression of concern, or retraction in accordance with COPE guidelines.

Improper Author Contribution or Attribution

All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research presented in the manuscript and must have approved all its claims and the final version of the text. It is imperative to accurately list everyone who made a substantial scientific contribution, including students and laboratory technicians. Ghost authorship and gift authorship are strictly prohibited.

Redundant Publications

Redundant publications (often referred to as "salami slicing") involve the inappropriate and unjustified division of a single study's outcomes into several smaller articles. This practice is unethical and will not be tolerated.

Note: In cases where violations of the above policies are found to be particularly egregious, BMCS and its editorial board reserve the right to impose additional sanctions beyond those described above, including permanent bans on future submissions.