Governance
Integrity & policies
House rules for authors, editors and reviewers. They follow ICMJE Recommendations, COPE Core Practices, WAME and the EQUATOR reporting network. A journal site may add title-specific detail; it cannot weaken this page.
1. Authorship
We apply the four ICMJE criteria. Each author must have made a substantial contribution to the conception, design, data, analysis or interpretation; drafted or critically revised the work; approved the version to be published; and agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work. We encourage a CRediT contribution statement. Ghost, guest and gift authorship are misconduct. A corresponding author must be reachable after publication.
2. Peer review
Double-blind. The office screens for scope, completeness, ethics statements and similarity. External specialists review. Editors decide. Submissions from board members are handled by an editor who is not a co-author and receive no courtesy accept. Reviewers treat the file as confidential and must not upload it to a public generative-AI service.
3. Research ethics
Human research needs committee approval and consent language in the manuscript. Animal work needs the relevant licence and a welfare statement. Clinical trials should be registered in a public registry before enrolment of the first participant. We follow COPE flowcharts when an allegation arrives.
4. Reporting
- Randomised trials — CONSORT
- Systematic reviews — PRISMA; observational meta-analyses — MOOSE
- Observational epidemiology — STROBE
- Diagnostic accuracy — STARD
Attach the completed checklist that matches the study design. We may return the file until it is there.
5. Originality and images
Submissions are screened with iThenticate. Duplicate publication, uncited text recycling, image manipulation and idea theft are grounds for rejection or later retraction. If a figure is reused, the licence and attribution must travel with it.
6. Data, materials and preprints
A data-availability statement is required where the study generated data. Deposit in a recognised repository is preferred to “available from the author”. Preprints are allowed; cite the preprint and tell the editor on submission. After the version of record exists, that file is the one we correct or retract.
7. Generative AI
A model cannot be an author and cannot be listed in CRediT as if it held accountability. Authors must name the tool, version and task (language edit, figure drafting, code). They remain responsible for every sentence and image. Editors and reviewers must not paste a confidential manuscript into a public model. Tabib Guide answers house policy only; it cannot accept, reject or peer-review a paper.
8. Competing interests
Declare financial and non-financial interests in the cover letter and on the manuscript. If there are none, write that sentence. Do not leave the heading blank. Editorial decisions and commercial conversations (APC, reprints, advertising) do not share a meeting.
9. Fees — published, not invented
There is no fee to submit or to be reviewed on AES, JBP or JPMT. JBP invoices an article-processing charge of USD 450 only after a written accept. Any post-acceptance charge on AES or JPMT is only what that journal’s site states at the time of accept — confirm there. Waivers are editorial. We do not sell acceptance or an impact factor.
10. Licence and the version of record
Journal articles are published open access under CC BY unless a title states another Creative Commons licence in writing. Authors keep copyright where the licence allows. The version-of-record PDF may be placed in an institutional repository with citation and DOI.
11. Corrections, expressions of concern, retractions
We correct the record when an error is shown. An expression of concern may appear while an investigation runs. Retraction follows COPE guidance when the findings are unreliable, copied, or unethical. The retracted file stays in the record and is marked.
12. Advertising
Queries: tabibpublication@gmail.com. The journal office may refuse an advert. An advertisement never buys a decision.
13. Complaints and appeals
Write to support@tabibpub.com with the manuscript ID and a factual account. An appeal is read by an editor who did not take the original decision. We do not debate tone; we examine process and evidence.