Jivaro Journal
Research ethics for responsible scholarly work.
This policy explains how authors should handle ethics approval, consent, privacy, human participants, patient data, animal research, biological materials, AI and data research, environmental studies, dual-use concerns, and documentation before submitting to Jivaro Journal.
Ethics pathway
Start by identifying what the research involves.
The ethical requirements for a manuscript depend on what or who the research involves. Authors should disclose approvals, exemptions, consent, safeguards, and limitations where applicable.
Does the work involve people?
Human participants, surveys, interviews, experiments, interventions, observations, identifiable records, patient data, or user studies may require ethics approval, consent, and privacy safeguards.
Does the work involve animals or biological materials?
Animal studies, biological samples, cell lines, genetic material, tissue, or biospecimens may require approval, provenance information, welfare safeguards, and reporting transparency.
Does the work use sensitive data or AI systems?
Datasets, scraped data, model outputs, health records, personal data, surveillance data, or AI-assisted analysis may require privacy review, bias assessment, data-use explanation, and harm controls.
Does the work raise environmental or dual-use concerns?
Environmental sampling, ecosystem interventions, hazardous materials, security-sensitive methods, or harmful-use risks should be explained and responsibly limited.
What statement should appear in the manuscript?
Authors should include the relevant ethics approval, consent, exemption, privacy, data-use, animal welfare, AI/data, or “not applicable” statement in the manuscript package.
Approval and exemption standard
Use a tiered ethics approval approach.
Research ethics requirements should be strict where regulated research is involved, but flexible enough to cover public data, low-risk work, retrospective analysis, or non-human research when formal approval is not required.
Decision rule
If the research involves people, animals, clinical data, identifiable personal data, biological materials, or regulated risk, include approval or a clear exemption.
Authors should be prepared to provide documentation when requested by editors.
Formal ethics approval
Required for regulated human research, animal research, clinical research, identifiable patient data, biological materials, or other studies requiring review under applicable law or institutional rules.
Exemption or not required
When approval was not required, authors should explain why, identify the basis for exemption if known, and describe any safeguards used.
Editor-requested evidence
Jivaro Journal may request ethics approval letters, exemption documentation, consent language, registration details, or additional explanation during editorial review.
Ethics risk dashboard
Different studies require different safeguards.
This dashboard helps authors identify the level of documentation and caution likely needed before submission.
Minimal ethical risk
Examples may include public, non-identifiable information, theoretical work, literature review, or non-sensitive secondary analysis.
Data or participant sensitivity
Examples may include surveys, interviews, user studies, retrospective analysis, private datasets, or sensitive social or health-related topics.
Regulated or vulnerable contexts
Examples may include clinical research, minors, vulnerable groups, identifiable patient data, biological samples, animal studies, or intervention research.
Potential for serious harm
Examples may include dual-use methods, security-sensitive data, hazardous materials, exploitation risk, or research that could enable harm if misused.
Human, clinical, and health research
Participant welfare comes before publication value.
Research involving people should protect dignity, rights, privacy, safety, and informed participation.
Human participants
Studies involving people should describe approval, consent, recruitment, inclusion criteria, exclusion criteria, risk controls, and participant protections where applicable.
Clinical and health research
Clinical or health-related work should report approval, consent, trial registration where applicable, risk safeguards, and limits affecting interpretation.
Patient privacy
Patient data, identifiable records, images, or case material must be handled in a way that protects privacy and avoids unnecessary exposure of personal information.
Animals, biological materials, and biospecimens
Animal and biospecimen research requires clear provenance and welfare reporting.
Studies involving animals, biological samples, tissues, cell lines, genetic material, or biospecimens should include approval, provenance, handling, consent, and welfare information where applicable.
Animal research
Report welfare oversight, approval, humane handling, experimental design, species, strain, sex, age, housing, randomization, blinding, and endpoint information where applicable.
Biological samples
Report sample source, consent or permission, approval status, storage, transfer, and access conditions where relevant.
Cell lines and genetic material
Report authentication, provenance, contamination controls, consent or permissions, and restrictions on use where applicable.
Reporting transparency
Methods should be detailed enough to evaluate ethical handling, reproducibility, and interpretation.
AI, technology, and data research
Technology research can still involve people, privacy, and harm.
AI and data research should consider privacy, consent, bias, surveillance risk, dataset provenance, model limitations, and potential misuse.
Dataset provenance
Authors should explain data source, collection method, permissions, terms of use, privacy status, and whether the dataset contains personal or sensitive information.
Human subjects in AI studies
User studies, annotation work, behavioral analysis, surveys, usability testing, and human-in-the-loop research may require consent and ethics review.
Bias and harmful impact
Authors should consider bias, discrimination, model limitations, surveillance risks, security risks, and possible downstream harms where relevant.
AI-assisted analysis
Authors should disclose material AI use in analysis, coding, summarization, data processing, image generation, or manuscript preparation where applicable.
Environmental and dual-use concerns
Some research requires special caution because of possible harm.
Environmental, ecological, security-sensitive, or dual-use research should explain safeguards, permissions, and limits on disclosure when appropriate.
Environmental research
Authors should report permits, sampling permissions, ecological safeguards, site protections, and environmental impact controls where relevant.
Security-sensitive research
Methods, datasets, or findings that could enable harm should be described responsibly, with unnecessary operational detail avoided where appropriate.
Dual-use concerns
Research that could be misused for harmful biological, cyber, surveillance, security, or other purposes may require additional editorial assessment.
Ethics documentation
What authors may need to provide.
Jivaro Journal may request documentation during editorial screening, peer review, revision, or post-publication review when ethical questions arise.
Approval documentation
Ethics committee, institutional review board, animal care committee, or equivalent approval information.
Exemption explanation
A clear explanation when formal approval was not required or a study was exempt.
Consent materials
Consent language, consent waiver, publication consent, assent, or guardian consent when relevant.
Data-use permission
Dataset terms, permissions, licenses, access conditions, or repository policies.
Risk safeguards
Privacy, anonymization, data minimization, harm reduction, safety, environmental, or dual-use controls.
Registration details
Clinical trial or study registration information where applicable.
Journal links
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