The Hospital Pharmacology – International Multidisciplinary Journal (HOPH) is committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards of publication of research work. In order to ensure the outcome of providing our readers with a scientific journal of high quality, HOPH is guided by the following principles (in short):

• The editors of HOPH are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. In evaluating the submitted works, the editors should limit themselves only to the intellectual content. The editors can choose to ignore any material that breaks legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors must ensure the confidentiality of the submitted works until they are published, except in the case of suspicion of double submission. In case the editors decide not to publish a material, the manuscript should not be used for other purposes without the written consent of the author. The editor of a submitted manuscript must not have a stake in the authors.

• The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works. When the authors use other materials, sources should be appropriately cited. Any attempt of plagiarism should be followed by the rejection of the submitted manuscript. Authors should not submit the same work or describe essentially the same research in more than one journal. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior, unless otherwise specified.

• The reviewers of HOPH assist the editors in taking the decision of publishing a submitted manuscript. The reviewers are bound to treat the manuscript received for peer-reviewing as confidential, and must not use the information obtained through peer-review for personal advantage. The reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

The guidelines are based on COPE’s Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_1.pdf).

It is necessary that all parties involved in publishing process – the authors, the editor-in-chief, editorial board, the peer-reviewers and the publisher – agree to abide by the highest standards of ethical behavior of research publication.

The extended version of HOPH Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement could be found following this link:
Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement[PDF]