Publication Ethics in HIR

parts: ‘Research ethics,’ ‘Authorship,’ ‘Conflict of interest,’ and ‘Copyright policy.’ Prohibition of redundant publication is mentioned in the ‘Editorial policy’ section of the ‘Editorial and Review Policy’ section. Each manuscript is peer reviewed by three anonymous reviewers selected by the editor and associate editors (‘Peer-review process’ part). General ethical guidelines in HIR are described in the ‘Research ethics’ section, asking authors to provide IRB approval and Helsinki declaration compliance in human subject studies and for fields of research such as animal studies that were not mentioned directly. HIR adopted the guidelines “Good Publication Practice Guidelines for Medical Journals,” “Guidelines on Good Publication Practice (The COPE Report, 2003),” and “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication” from The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) [4] regarding research and publication ethics. Publication ethics guidelines are described as falling into categories of research ethics, publication ethics (authorship and review process), and dealing with misconduct. Since the ‘Instruction to Authors’ in HIR provides a guideline for authors but not for reviewers and editors, and in order to create a process for editors and reviewers to deal with misconduct, the relevant sections should be supplemented, although a general flow for dealing with this subject has been included in HIR. Generally speaking, in terms of ethical aspects, the ‘Instruction to Authors’ section in HIR has adopted guidelines similar to those of other informatics journals such as the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) and the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). It will be better if other guidelines and standard operating procedures are established in compliance with ethical guidelines based on HIR ethics policies. The HIR editorial board will make an effort to implement good pubPublication Ethics in HIR