Publication Ethics & Malpractice Statement

JNI follows the Core Practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

• Authors must submit original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere, cite sources properly, disclose funding and competing interests, and meet authorship criteria. Plagiarism, data fabrication or falsification, and duplicate publication are not tolerated.
• Use of AI tools: generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Any use of such tools in preparing the manuscript must be disclosed in the Methods or Acknowledgments, and authors remain fully responsible for the content.
• Reviewers must keep manuscripts confidential, declare conflicts of interest, and provide objective, timely and constructive evaluations.
• Editors evaluate manuscripts solely on their scholarly merit, without regard to the authors' race, gender, religion, nationality or institutional affiliation.
• Corrections and retractions are handled according to COPE guidelines. Concerns about published work may be sent to manager@sci-access.org.

Conflicts of Interest

All authors, reviewers and editors must disclose any financial or personal relationships that could be viewed as influencing their work.

Research Integrity and Data

Authors should make the data and code supporting their findings available where possible, and state their availability in a Data Availability statement. Research involving human participants or animals must have appropriate ethical approval.