ETHICS & MALPRACTICE POLICY
Eagle International Journal of Research, Innovation and Health Sciences is fully committed to maintain the ethical standards in publication. This policy outlines the responsibilities of authors, editors, reviewers and publishers to ensure integrity, transparency and accountability in scholarly publishing.
Author Responsibilities
Originality: Authors should submit only original work. In essence, plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification of data are serious offenses.
Author contribution: Only those individuals who have made a major impact on the conception, design, analysis or interpretation of the research should be listed as authors. Contributors (i.e external contributors whose input does not meet full authorship criteria) should be properly acknowledged.
Financial Disclosure : The authors have reported no conflicts of interest related to this article.
Reviewer Responsibilities
Confidentiality: The reviewers must treat all the manuscripts as confidential documents and should not share them with others.
Objectivity: Review should be conducted purely on scholarly merit of the work not influenced by personal bias, discrimination or unrelated concerns.
Conflicts of Interest: Reviewers are required to decline the review of manuscripts with which they have any real or apparent conflict of interest associated to either the authors or the subject.
Constructive Feedback: Reviewers are expected to supply clear, evidence‑based, constructive feedback that aids authors in improving the quality and clarity of their manuscript.
Editorial Responsibilities
Fair decisions: Editors should make decisions without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, nationality, religion, or institution.
Confidentiality: Editors should protect the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts as well as the identities of reviewers.
Integrity: Editors have a duty to act on ethical issues when they arise and may need to correct, retract or publish an expression of concern.
Transparency: Editorial decisions and processes should be made plain to authors, including the reasons for any major revision or rejection.
Publisher Responsibilities
The publisher guarantees the integrity of established ethical standards during publication. The publisher assists editors in investigating and resolving alleged cases of misconduct, and ensures that corrections, retractions or expressions of concern are issued as required by the best practices.
Misconduct and Malpractice
The Journal considers the following actions to be serious violations of publication ethics:
- Plagiarism or self‑plagiarism
- Data fabrication or falsification
- Duplicate submission or redundant publication
- Improper authorship practices (gift, ghost or honorary authorship)
- Undisclosed conflicts of interest
Citation manipulation or excessive self‑citation
All such cases are reviewed and investigated in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. If malpractice is ascertained, the Journal may impose sanctions four rejection of manuscript, retraction of article, or ban on further submissions by those involved.
Retraction and Correction Policy
Retractions: Retractions are notifications that published work is fraudulent, plagiarized, violates so many ethical principles that it cannot stand, or contains serious mistakes such as erroneous basic data or failures to include key models that invalidate conclusions.
Correction: Minor but substantive errors which do not undermine the overall findings may be corrected via a formal correction notice.
Expression of Concern: In cases where an investigation is ongoing and it is not yet possible to determine the outcome, the Journal may publish an expression of concern to alert readers during the course of inquiry.
Eagle International Journal of Research, Innovation and Health Sciences strictly implements this Ethics and Malpractice Policy to safeguard the authenticity of the research published in its journal as well as promote responsible scholarly exchange.
