AJAHEC is committed to strong publication ethics, research integrity, transparency, and responsible scholarly communication. Authors, reviewers, and editors are expected to follow recognized international standards of publication ethics, including principles aligned with COPE guidance.
Authors must submit original work and avoid plagiarism, self-plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, inappropriate image or figure manipulation, citation manipulation, duplicate publication, and unethical authorship practices.
Where applicable, authors must provide clear ethics statements for studies involving human participants, human data, animals, biological materials, sensitive data, hazardous materials, or dual-use research. Manuscripts should include statements on informed consent, data protection, ethical approval, competing interests, funding sources, author contributions, data availability, and use of generative AI tools.
Generative AI tools and large language models cannot be listed as authors. If AI tools are used for writing assistance, code generation, analysis support, or figure preparation, authors must disclose how they were used. Human authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, citations, data, and conclusions of the manuscript.