Jivaro Journal
Publication policies for Jivaro Journal.
These policies define how Jivaro Journal handles open access, copyright, licensing, peer review, authorship, conflicts, research ethics, data availability, AI use, misconduct, corrections, retractions, appeals, and complaints.
Policy dashboard
Jump to a policy area.
This page is designed as a complete publication-policy hub while still linking to deeper dedicated pages where needed.
Access, copyright, licensing, and fees
Open access forever.
Jivaro Journal is built as an open-access journal. Published articles are available to readers without subscription barriers.
Open Access
Jivaro Journal publishes accepted articles as open access content immediately upon publication. Readers may access published articles without paying a subscription or reader fee.
Copyright
Authors retain copyright in articles published by Jivaro Journal. By 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
Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, also known as CC BY 4.0, unless a specific article page states otherwise.
No Fees
Jivaro Journal does not charge submission fees, publication fees, article processing charges, page charges, color charges, or reader access fees.
Editorial governance
Editorial independence and responsibility.
Publication decisions should be based on scholarly merit, journal fit, research integrity, methodological credibility, and reader value.
Decision-making standard
Editors and handling editors should evaluate submissions according to the manuscript’s fit with the journal scope, quality of evidence, clarity of reasoning, ethical readiness, methodological transparency, and contribution to the relevant field.
Commercial separation
Publication decisions are not sold. Advertising, sponsorship, donations, business relationships, affiliate relationships, or personal relationships may not purchase acceptance, favorable handling, preferential review, or editorial conclusions.
Editorial recusal
Editors, reviewers, or contributors with a material conflict of interest should disclose it and may be recused from handling, reviewing, or deciding on a submission where impartiality could reasonably be questioned.
Peer review
External peer review when selected after screening.
Research Articles and Review Articles selected for external review undergo double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers.
Editorial screening
Submissions are first screened for scope, completeness, originality, policy compliance, ethical readiness, and basic methodological fit.
Reviewer selection
Manuscripts selected for external review are sent to reviewers with relevant expertise and without known disqualifying conflicts of interest.
Double-anonymous review
Reviewer and author identities should be protected during external review when feasible. Authors should prepare submissions in a way that supports this review model.
Editorial decision
Reviewer recommendations inform but do not automatically determine editorial decisions. Final decisions remain editorial decisions.
Authorship and contributorship
Authorship must reflect real scholarly contribution.
Authors are responsible for the accuracy, integrity, originality, and disclosure completeness of submitted work.
Authorship Criteria
Authors should have made a meaningful scholarly contribution to the work and should be able to take responsibility for the parts of the work they contributed to.
Corresponding Author
The corresponding author is responsible for communicating with the journal, confirming author approval, submitting accurate files, and ensuring required declarations are complete.
Acknowledgments
Contributors who do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged where appropriate, including technical support, editorial assistance, funding support, or administrative help.
Authorship Changes
Requests to add, remove, or reorder authors after submission must be explained and may require written confirmation from all affected authors.
Conflicts, funding, and disclosures
Relevant interests must be disclosed.
Authors, reviewers, editors, and contributors should disclose interests that could reasonably affect, or appear to affect, the objectivity of the work or editorial process.
Competing Interests
Disclosable interests may include financial relationships, employment, consulting, equity, intellectual property, patents, grants, personal relationships, academic rivalry, institutional interests, or strong ideological commitments relevant to the work.
Funding and Sponsors
Authors should identify funding sources and describe any sponsor role in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, writing, submission, or publication decisions.
Reviewer and Editor Conflicts
Reviewers and editors should decline or recuse themselves when conflicts could compromise independent assessment, including recent collaboration, direct competition, supervisory relationships, financial interests, or personal connections.
Research ethics
Ethical approval, consent, and participant protection.
Research involving people, animals, clinical data, personal data, sensitive information, or regulated materials must meet applicable ethical and legal standards.
Human Subjects
Research involving human participants should include appropriate ethics approval, consent details, and safeguards for participant welfare, privacy, and dignity.
Patient and Personal Data
Manuscripts using patient data, identifiable personal information, or sensitive records must protect privacy and disclose consent, anonymization, or lawful processing where relevant.
Animal Research
Animal research should follow applicable welfare rules, institutional approvals, humane handling requirements, and accepted reporting standards for animal studies.
Clinical and Health Research
Clinical, biomedical, or health-related research should clearly report approvals, consent, risk safeguards, trial registration when applicable, and any limitations affecting interpretation.
Data, materials, methods, and image integrity
The research record must be transparent enough to evaluate.
Authors should report data, methods, code, materials, statistics, images, figures, and limitations clearly enough for readers, reviewers, and editors to assess the work.
Data Availability
Authors should include a data availability statement when applicable and identify whether data are public, available upon request, restricted, unavailable, or not applicable.
Materials and Code
Computational work should describe software, code, tools, model versions, parameters, and reproducibility constraints where relevant.
Image and Figure Integrity
Images, charts, figures, and visual data must not be manipulated in a misleading way. Adjustments should preserve the meaning of the underlying data.
Methods and Limitations
Methods should be described clearly, limitations should be acknowledged, and statistical or analytical conclusions should not exceed what the data can support.
AI use in research and writing
AI tools may assist, but authors remain responsible.
AI tools cannot be authors. Authors are responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, citations, interpretation, and disclosure of submitted work.
Permitted Assistance
AI tools may be used for limited support such as grammar cleanup, formatting help, coding assistance, language refinement, outline organization, or data-processing support when appropriate.
Required Disclosure
Authors should disclose material AI-assisted work when an AI tool contributed to writing, analysis, code generation, image generation, data processing, literature summarization, or other substantive parts of the manuscript.
Prohibited Use
AI tools must not be used to fabricate data, references, quotations, ethics approvals, peer-review suggestions, images, patient information, author identities, reviewer identities, or research results.
Research and publication misconduct
Misconduct allegations are handled seriously.
Jivaro Journal may investigate credible concerns before, during, or after publication. Authors, reviewers, and editors are expected to cooperate with good-faith integrity inquiries.
Plagiarism and Redundant Publication
Submissions must be original and must not present another person’s work as the author’s own. Duplicate submission, redundant publication, and undisclosed overlap may require editorial action.
Fabrication and Falsification
Fabricated data, falsified results, misleading analysis, invented citations, manipulated images, or deceptive reporting may lead to rejection, correction, retraction, or other action.
Peer-Review Manipulation
Fake reviewer identities, undisclosed author-controlled reviewer accounts, coercive citation, reviewer impersonation, or attempts to influence review unfairly are prohibited.
Undisclosed Conflicts
Failure to disclose major competing interests, funding influence, sponsor involvement, or editorial conflicts may require correction, expression of concern, or retraction depending on severity.
Corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions
The scholarly record should be corrected when needed.
Post-publication actions should be clear, proportionate, and visible enough for readers to understand the status of the article.
Corrections
Corrections may be issued when a published article contains a factual, methodological, attribution, metadata, figure, data, or wording error that does not invalidate the overall work.
Expressions of Concern
An expression of concern may be issued when credible concerns exist but the available evidence is incomplete, disputed, or still under investigation.
Retractions
A retraction may be issued when findings are unreliable, misconduct is confirmed, ethical approval is inadequate, plagiarism is substantial, or the article should no longer remain part of the valid scholarly record.
Transparency
Corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions should be linked to the affected article and worded clearly enough to explain the reason for the notice.
Appeals, complaints, withdrawals, and sanctions
Concerns should have a clear route.
Authors, reviewers, readers, and editors may raise concerns about editorial decisions, process fairness, publication integrity, or post-publication handling.
Appeals
Authors may appeal an editorial decision by explaining the specific reason for disagreement, identifying any procedural concern, and providing evidence that could materially affect the decision.
Complaints
Complaints may relate to editorial process, policy application, conflicts, peer review, corrections, article handling, or publication ethics. Complaints should be specific and evidence-based.
Withdrawals and Sanctions
Withdrawal requests are reviewed case by case. Misconduct may result in rejection, correction, retraction, reviewer removal, editorial recusal, future submission restrictions, or notification to relevant institutions when appropriate.
Prior dissemination and preprints
Prior sharing should be disclosed.
Preprints, conference abstracts, posters, working papers, datasets, code repositories, and prior public versions should be disclosed during submission when relevant.
Preprints
Jivaro Journal may consider manuscripts that have appeared as preprints, provided the prior version is disclosed and the submitted manuscript meets journal standards.
Conference Materials
Prior conference abstracts, posters, presentations, or proceedings should be disclosed if they overlap with the manuscript.
Version Clarity
Authors should identify major differences between the submitted manuscript and any prior public version when that context is relevant to editorial evaluation.
Journal links
Research directory
Compact, alphabetized links for authors, reviewers, readers, and editorial-policy navigation.