- Editorial Policies
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Editorial Policies
The principles that govern review, ethics, integrity, data, and publication at the Journal of Biosemiotic Research.
How manuscripts are assessed
Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
Editorial decisions are independent of fees, services, memberships, and roles. Editors and reviewers recuse themselves from manuscripts on which they have a conflict of interest.
Research and publication ethics
Research involving people or animals
Manuscripts must report ethics approval and informed consent, or a waiver documented by the ethics committee, where applicable. Studies that use animals must report the approval obtained and follow accepted welfare standards.
Authorship and conflicts
Authors must have contributed substantially to the work and approved the final version. Financial and non-financial conflicts of interest must be declared at submission.
Originality and integrity
Submissions must be original, must not be under consideration elsewhere, and must cite prior work accurately. Manuscripts are screened for overlap with published work. Concerns about fabrication, plagiarism, or image manipulation are investigated following COPE guidance.
Corrections and retractions
Errors that affect the record are corrected by a published notice. Articles are retracted when serious problems are established. See the retraction policy.
Data availability and trial registration
Transparent reporting allows readers to evaluate and build on published work.
Every empirical research manuscript must include a data-availability statement.
Interventional clinical trials must be registered in an accepted public trial registry at or before the first participant provides consent for enrollment. The registry name, registration number, and registration date must be reported in the manuscript.
Authors should follow the reporting guideline that fits the design of the study, for example ARRIVE for animal research.
Use of AI tools
Authors remain responsible for the content of their manuscripts.
Generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors who use such tools to assist with writing, analysis, or figures must disclose the tool and how it was used in the manuscript, and must verify the accuracy of the output. Reviewers and editors must follow the AI guidance in the Reviewer Guidelines and Editors Guidelines.
Open access, copyright, and preservation
Articles are free to read, share, and reuse with attribution.
JBSR is open access under CC BY 4.0. Authors retain copyright. See Copyright and License.
Articles will be deposited in Portico. Read our preservation policy.
Fees and the manuscript withdrawal policy are set out on the Article Processing Charges page.
Contact the editorial office
Questions about these policies can be sent to info@openaccesspub.org.