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All team members of the journal:
- keep and promote ethical policies of the journal;
- do not disclose any information regarding a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding Author, Reviewers, potential Reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the Publisher, when appropriate;
- make a decision on publication or rejecting the paper according to the scientific importance/quality, interest to readers, Reviewers’ comments, and the related legal requirements (i.e., plagiarism, breach of copyright, etc.);
- communicate politely with the authors about their paper;
- reserve the right to make minor amendments to the text or return it back to the author for further revision;
- reserve the right to refuse the manuscript without the review process due to inappropriate quality of the manuscript, a different focus, or violation of legal requirements (i.e., plagiarism, breach of copyright, etc.);
- to have the objective judgment about any paper suggested for their review;
- to have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, authors, and/or research funders;
- to alert immediately the journal editor about any real or potential competing interest that could affect the independence of the review itself;
- not to use any part of the material obtained for review in their own publications or unpublished research studies without proper citing.