Editor Guidelines

Editors of the Journal of Biomedicine and Biosensors are responsible for maintaining the quality, integrity, credibility, and academic standards of the journal.

Editorial Independence

Editors must make decisions objectively and independently based on scientific quality, originality, significance, relevance to the journal's scope, ethical compliance, and peer-review information. Editorial decisions must not be influenced by commercial interests, sponsors, advertisers, authors, reviewers, publishers, nationality, institutional affiliation, gender, ethnicity, religion, political views, or other personal characteristics.

Editorial Assessment

Editors should assess manuscripts for scope, scientific and methodological quality, originality, ethical compliance, research integrity, completeness, and suitability for peer review.

Peer Review

Each manuscript requiring external peer review must be evaluated by at least two independent reviewers with appropriate expertise. Editors must consider reviewer independence and conflicts of interest and may appoint additional reviewers when necessary.

Final Editorial Decision

The Editor-in-Chief retains overall responsibility for editorial decisions and the academic integrity of the journal. The Editor-in-Chief may delegate manuscript handling and decision-making to an Associate Editor or another formally designated editor with appropriate expertise. When the Editor-in-Chief is an author or has a conflict of interest, an independent editor without a relevant conflict of interest will manage the manuscript and make the editorial decision without the Editor-in-Chief's involvement. The Editor-in-Chief must not participate in reviewer selection, editorial assessment, or the final publication decision for that manuscript.

Editors may Accept, Request Revision, Request Additional Review or Clarification, or Reject a manuscript. Reviewer recommendations are advisory and do not automatically determine the final decision.

Confidentiality

Editors must maintain confidentiality of manuscripts, reviewer reports, reviewer identities, editorial correspondence, unpublished data, and other information obtained during the editorial process. Unpublished information must not be used for personal or professional advantage without appropriate permission.

Conflicts of Interest

Editors must disclose and appropriately manage actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest. Editors should not handle manuscripts where their impartiality could reasonably be questioned. Conflicted manuscripts should be assigned to another qualified editor.

Ethical Oversight

Editors should ensure, where applicable, appropriate ethical approval, informed consent, clinical trial registration, animal ethics approval, data protection, funding disclosure, author contributions, and conflict-of-interest statements.

Research Misconduct

Editors must respond appropriately to allegations of plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabrication, falsification, image manipulation, authorship misconduct, unethical research, undisclosed conflicts, peer-review manipulation, or other research misconduct.

Corrections and Retractions

When necessary to protect the scholarly record, the journal may publish corrections, expressions of concern, retractions, or other appropriate post-publication notices.

Reporting Standards

Where applicable, reviewers may consider recognized reporting standards, including CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA, CARE, STARD, ARRIVE, and other relevant guidelines available through the EQUATOR Network. The applicable standard depends on the study design and subject area.

Artificial Intelligence

Editors must protect confidential manuscript information and must not upload confidential manuscripts, unpublished data, patient information, or reviewer reports to external AI systems where confidentiality or intellectual property could be compromised. AI tools must not replace independent editorial judgment.

Fairness and Accountability

Editors must apply journal policies consistently, communicate decisions professionally, provide appropriate explanations where feasible, and ensure that manuscripts are evaluated on scholarly merit rather than the identity or reputation of the authors.

Publication Ethics

The journal follows recognized principles of responsible scholarly publishing and relevant guidance from organizations including COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors), WAME (World Association of Medical Editors), CSE (Council of Science Editors), EASE (European Association of Science Editors), WMA (World Medical Association), NLM (National Library of Medicine), and the EQUATOR Network, where applicable.