Editorial policies

Editorial policies.

  1. All articles are available for free and can be accessed immediately once they are published and online.
  2. Readers can study, download, and/or print open access articles at no cost.
  3. Articles are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode), which allows unrestricted distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
  4. Current Opinion Nursing & Research (CONR) follows the double-blind peer review procedure for the submission of all manuscripts. It is the most common type of peer review, in which the identity of the reviewers is not revealed to the authors of the submitted manuscript. The anonymity of the reviewers allows for an objective evaluation of the manuscript and is also free from any influence of the authors on the reviewers' comments.
  5. All submitted articles are subject to extensive peer review, in consultation with the members of the journal's Editorial Committee and independent external referees (usually two and sometimes up to three). All manuscripts are quickly evaluated and the decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal based on the comments of all reviewers, which are then passed on to the author(s).
  6. Submissions from the Director-Editor-in-Chief will undergo independent peer review and be sent to another Editor for acceptance decision.
  7. Every effort is made to expedite the peer review process leading to timely publication.
  8. Authors who publish in Current Opinion Nursing & Research retain the copyright to their work. Authors have a wide range of articles available to publish, for example. Scientific and technological research article, Special topics, Research note, Reflection article, Review article, Reflection paper not derived from research, Case report, Translation, Bibliographic review, Editorial, Letters to the Editor, Scientific letters, as well as Supplements, Conference Proceedings.
  9. Human and Animal Rights. All clinical research should be conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. For all manuscripts reporting data from studies with human participants, formal review and approval by an appropriate institutional review board or ethics committee is required.

For animal research: Authors should indicate whether the procedures followed are in accordance with the standards set forth in the eighth edition of the Guidance for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, subvenciones.nih.gov/grants/olaw/guide-for-the-care-and-use-of-laboratory-animals_prepub.pdf, published by the National Academy of Sciences, The National Academies Press, Washington, DC).

    1. Research involving animals. Research work on animals must be carried out in accordance with NC3R ARRIVALS Guidelines. For in vivo experiments, visit https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/arrive-guidelines.
    2. Authors must clearly indicate the name of the approval committee, highlighting that legal and ethical approval was obtained prior to the start of research work conducted on animals, and that the experiments were conducted in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations detailed below.
    3. Authors should cite compliance with the "Guidance for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals"
    4. The "Policy on the Human Care and Use of Laboratory Animals" and the "Guidance on the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals" of the Public Health Service.
    5. Animal research must comply with the ethical guidelines of the Basel Declaration and the International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (ICLAS) has also published ethical guidelines.
    6. The manuscript must clearly include a statement of compliance with relevant guidelines (e.g. the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in the UK and Directive 2010/63/EU in Europe) and/or relevant permits or licences obtained by the IUCN Policy Statement on Research on Endangered Species and the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
  1. Research involving plants
    1. All experimental research on plants (cultivated or wild) must comply with international guidelines. The manuscript must clearly include a statement of compliance of the field studies with the relevant guidelines and/or relevant permits or licences obtained by the IUCN Policy Statement on Research with Endangered Species and the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

Based on the regulations of the journal Current Opinion Nursing & Research, the authors of scientific articles have four rights over their manuscripts: to present them in public, to prepare derivative works, to reproduce them and to distribute them. Information from scientific papers may be reproduced by interested parties (but with the appropriate citation, otherwise plagiarism is committed) when it is done for specific purposes in teaching and research.
Costs per publication

The journal does not charge any publication fees.

Scientific Fraud

Fraud in scientific publication refers to the presentation of false data or conclusions that do not reveal those generated through a rigorous research process. There are the following types of fraud in the publication of research results: i) Data collection. Inventing data and research results and then communicating them. ii) Falsification of data. The handling of research materials, images, data, equipment or processes. Falsification includes the modification or omission of data or results in such a way that the research is not accurately represented. A person could falsify data to match the desired end result of a study.

Recommendation:

Before submitting an article, please read the journal's editorial and data policies carefully. Never intentionally modify, change, or omit data. This includes research materials, processes, equipment, tables, citations, and bibliographic references. Both fabrication and falsification of data are serious forms of misconduct because both result in scientific publications that do not accurately reflect the observed truth.

The author must make an adequate management of the data that support the research, taking special care in the collection, production, conservation, analysis and communication of the data.
Keep meticulous records of raw data, which should be accessible in case an editor requests them even after the article is published.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is one of the most common forms of misconduct in publications, it happens when one of the authors passes off the work of others as his or her own without permission, mention or acknowledgement. Plagiarism comes in different forms, from verbatim copying to paraphrasing someone else's work, including: data, ideas, concepts, words, and phrases.

Plagiarism has different levels of severity, such as: i) How much of someone else's work was taken (several lines, paragraphs, pages, the whole article) ii) What was copied (results, methods, or introduction section)

Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical editorial conduct and is unacceptable. Verbatim copying is only acceptable if it indicates the source and includes the copied text in quotation marks.

Recommendation:

Always remember that it is essential to acknowledge the work of others (including your advisor's work or your own previous work) as part of the process. Do not reproduce a work word for word, in whole or in part, without permission and acknowledgement of the original source.

Keep track of the sources you use when researching and where you used them in your article. Be sure to fully acknowledge and properly cite the original source in your article. Even when referencing the source, avoid using other people's work word-for-word unless you do so in quotation marks. Paraphrasing is only acceptable if you correctly state the source and make sure you don't change the meaning of the font's intent. Include in quotation marks and cite all content you've taken from a previously published source, even if you're saying it in your own words.

Manuscript review process.

Each manuscript will be assigned an editor who will be responsible for the editorial review process. All manuscripts will be reviewed anonymously by two members of the National and/or International Editorial Board who are experts and independent. The Editorial Committee will value these comments and reserves the right to reject those works that it does not deem appropriate, as well as to propose modifications when it deems necessary.
Authors will receive an acknowledgement of receipt of an article via email (editornursingresearch@gmail.com). Whenever the Editorial Committee suggests making modifications to the articles, the authors must send the new version of the article and a letter detailing the modifications made, both those suggested by the Editorial Committee itself and those contained in the reports of the experts consulted. New versions must also be sent through the email address editornursingresearch@gmail.com, editor.conr@uacucb.edu.bo