Publication Policies
Jivaro Journal maintains publication policies designed to support editorial independence, research integrity, transparent author requirements, responsible peer review, and open access publication. These policies apply to manuscripts submitted to the journal and to articles published by the journal.
Authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial board members are expected to follow these policies throughout submission, review, revision, production, and post-publication handling.
At a glance
Jivaro Journal publishes articles as open access content immediately upon publication.
Authors retain copyright in their work and grant Jivaro Journal the right to publish, distribute, and identify itself as the original publisher of record.
Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, also known as CC BY 4.0.
There are currently no submission fees, publication fees, article processing charges, page charges, or color charges.
Research Articles and Review Articles selected for external review are evaluated through double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers.
Science and health submissions involving human participants, patient data, clinical material, animal research, or sensitive personal data must include appropriate ethics, consent, and data-handling statements.
Submission does not guarantee peer review, acceptance, or publication.
Open access, copyright, licensing, and fees
Open access
Articles published by Jivaro Journal are made freely available on the journal website immediately upon publication. Readers may access published articles without subscription or registration barriers.
Copyright
Authors retain copyright in articles published by Jivaro Journal. By submitting and, if accepted, publishing with the journal, authors grant Jivaro Journal the right to publish, distribute, archive, display, and identify the article as part of the journal’s scholarly record.
License
Published articles are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, also known as CC BY 4.0.
Under CC BY 4.0, users may share and adapt the material, including for commercial purposes, provided appropriate credit is given, a link to the license is provided, and changes are indicated.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that third-party material included in a manuscript can be published under the article’s license or is clearly identified with separate permission, credit, or rights information.
Fees
Jivaro Journal currently charges no submission fees, publication fees, article processing charges, page charges, color charges, or withdrawal fees.
If the journal introduces any author charges in the future, the fee policy will be updated before such charges apply.
Editorial independence
Editorial decisions are based on the manuscript’s scope fit, scholarly quality, methodological or analytical soundness, originality, clarity, ethical compliance, and suitability for publication. Editorial decisions are not based on an author’s nationality, institutional affiliation, commercial position, personal identity, or ability to pay publication fees.
The handling editor or editorial leadership has final responsibility for publication decisions. Reviewer recommendations inform editorial decisions but do not determine them automatically.
Commercial, promotional, personal, or institutional interests must not influence editorial decisions.
Peer review and confidentiality
Research Articles and Review Articles selected for external review undergo double-anonymous peer review. Manuscripts sent for external review are normally evaluated by at least two independent reviewers with relevant expertise.
Submitted manuscripts, reviewer reports, editorial correspondence, decision letters, and unpublished materials are treated as confidential editorial records.
Reviewers must not share, quote from, distribute, or use submitted manuscript material outside the review process. Editors and editorial staff must also preserve the confidentiality of manuscripts and reviewer identities unless disclosure is required for an investigation, correction, or other formal editorial reason.
Full details are provided on the Peer Review Process page.
Authorship and contributor responsibility
All listed authors should have made a meaningful scholarly contribution to the work and should approve the submitted version. Authors are responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and disclosure completeness of the manuscript.
The corresponding author is responsible for communication with the journal during submission, peer review, revision, production, and post-publication correspondence. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors have approved the submission and that authorship information is accurate.
Contributors who do not meet the threshold for authorship may be acknowledged where appropriate, provided their contribution is described accurately and any required permission to acknowledge them has been obtained.
Requests to add, remove, or reorder authors after submission must be explained in writing. The journal may require confirmation from all affected authors before making authorship changes.
Automated tools, including generative AI systems, may not be listed as authors.
Conflicts of interest
Authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial board members must disclose financial, professional, institutional, personal, or other relationships that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the submitted work, review, or editorial decision.
Authors should include a conflict of interest statement in the manuscript. If no relevant conflicts exist, authors should state that no competing interests are declared.
Reviewers should decline a review or notify the editorial office if a conflict may affect their ability to provide a fair and independent assessment.
Editors should not handle manuscripts where they have a conflict of interest. Where a conflict exists, responsibility should be assigned to another qualified editor or editorial decision-maker.
Failure to disclose relevant conflicts may result in correction, editorial investigation, rejection, or post-publication action.
Research ethics and consent
Jivaro Journal may consider science and health manuscripts, but any work involving human participants, patient data, clinical material, animal research, sensitive personal data, or other ethically sensitive material must include appropriate ethics, consent, and data-handling statements.
Human participants and personal data
Manuscripts involving human participants, identifiable individuals, private records, survey data, interviews, patient information, or sensitive personal data must state whether ethics review or institutional approval was obtained, waived, or not applicable. Authors must also describe consent procedures where relevant.
Patient material and clinical information
Submissions involving patient material, case information, clinical images, or health records must protect privacy and confidentiality. Identifiable information should not be published unless legally and ethically appropriate consent has been obtained.
Animal research
Submissions involving animal research must include a statement describing applicable ethical approval, oversight, welfare standards, and compliance with relevant institutional or legal requirements.
Unsupported clinical claims**
The journal does not publish unsupported clinical claims, medical advice, promotional health claims, or manuscripts that make conclusions beyond the evidence presented.
Published articles in Jivaro Journal are scholarly publications and should not be interpreted as personal medical advice.
Data, evidence, and reporting integrity
Authors are responsible for presenting data, evidence, methods, sources, and analysis accurately. Manuscripts should not contain fabricated data, falsified results, manipulated evidence, misleading descriptions, or unsupported conclusions.
Where a manuscript relies on datasets, code, protocols, interviews, archival materials, financial data, laboratory materials, or other evidence sources, authors should describe the source and handling of those materials clearly enough for editorial and peer-review assessment.
A data availability statement should be included where relevant. If data, code, or materials cannot be shared, authors should explain the reason, such as privacy, legal, proprietary, ethical, or contractual restrictions.
Authors should use appropriate reporting standards, disciplinary conventions, and methodological transparency for the type of work submitted.
Originality, plagiarism, and duplicate submission
Submitted work must be original and must not contain plagiarism, fabricated material, falsified evidence, undisclosed third-party writing, or misleading source use.
Authors must cite sources accurately and should avoid misrepresenting the work, conclusions, or data of others. Direct quotations, paraphrases, figures, tables, data, and reproduced materials should be properly attributed.
Manuscripts should not be under active consideration by another journal at the same time unless the editorial office has been informed and has agreed to consider the submission under clearly stated circumstances.
Redundant, overlapping, or duplicate publication may result in rejection, editorial investigation, correction, or retraction.
The journal may screen submissions or published articles for integrity concerns when appropriate.
AI and automated tools
Authors
Authors must disclose use of generative AI or automated tools in manuscript preparation when such use goes beyond spelling, grammar, formatting, or routine language polishing. Disclosures should describe how the tool was used.
Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, sourcing, analysis, interpretation, and integrity of all submitted content, including any content developed with assistance from automated tools.
Generative AI outputs should not be treated as independent scholarly sources. Authors must verify facts, quotations, citations, data descriptions, and analytical claims.
Reviewers
Reviewers must not upload confidential manuscripts, unpublished data, reviewer reports, or editorial correspondence into third-party AI tools or automated systems unless the journal has explicitly permitted such use.
Reviewers remain responsible for the content and judgment of their reviews.
Editors
Editors and editorial staff must preserve confidentiality when using any editorial, screening, or technical tools. Automated tools may assist editorial administration, but final editorial decisions are made by human editors.
Corrections, retractions, and expressions of concern
Jivaro Journal is committed to maintaining the integrity of the published scholarly record. When necessary, the journal may publish corrections, expressions of concern, retractions, or other editorial notices.
Corrections
A correction may be published when an error affects the accuracy, clarity, attribution, metadata, disclosure, or interpretation of a published article but does not invalidate the article as a whole.
Expressions of concern
An expression of concern may be published when a serious issue has been raised and an investigation is ongoing, incomplete, or inconclusive.
Retractions
A retraction may be issued when the journal determines that a published article contains unreliable findings, serious ethical issues, plagiarism, fabricated or falsified material, major undisclosed conflicts, peer-review manipulation, duplicate publication, or other issues that substantially compromise the article’s integrity.
Retraction notices should identify the article, state the reason for retraction where appropriate, and remain linked to the original article record.
Post-publication updates are handled formally and should not be treated as ordinary edits.
