Believers Medical Journal (BeMJ) is committed to maintaining high standards of publication ethics, research integrity, editorial responsibility, and transparency throughout the manuscript submission, peer-review, publication, and post-publication processes. The journal expects authors, reviewers, editors, Editorial Board members, and publishing staff to conduct their responsibilities with honesty, fairness, confidentiality, professionalism, and respect.
Authors submitting manuscripts to Believers Medical Journal (BeMJ) are expected to:
Reviewers are expected to:
The editors of BeMJ are responsible for:
Submitted manuscripts may undergo similarity screening as part of the journal's editorial assessment. Similarity results are evaluated carefully to distinguish legitimate quotations, technical terminology, references, and acceptable scholarly overlap from inappropriate or unattributed text reuse.
Where substantial unattributed overlap, duplicate publication, or other concerns are identified, the Editorial Office may request clarification, require revision, conduct further assessment, or reject the manuscript depending on the nature and severity of the concern.
Believers Medical Journal does not accept practices that compromise the originality, reliability, or integrity of scholarly publishing. Such practices may include:
Authors must disclose financial, personal, professional, institutional, or other relationships that could influence, or reasonably appear to influence, their research or publication activities.
Reviewers and editors must also disclose potential conflicts of interest. Individuals should withdraw from the evaluation or editorial handling of a manuscript when a conflict could affect their impartiality.
Editorial decisions are made independently of commercial interests, funding arrangements, institutional relationships, or personal considerations.
BeMJ promotes responsible research practices and transparency in scholarly communication. Authors are encouraged to provide access to supporting research data, analytical methods, protocols, and relevant materials where this is ethically, legally, and practically possible.
Authors should provide an appropriate Data Availability Statement where applicable. When research data cannot be shared because of privacy, confidentiality, ethical, legal, or institutional restrictions, the relevant limitations should be clearly stated.
Believers Medical Journal seeks to preserve the accuracy, credibility, transparency, and reliability of the scientific record. Authors are expected to conduct research responsibly, report findings accurately, maintain appropriate supporting documentation, and comply with applicable ethical, legal, institutional, and disciplinary requirements.
Where reasonably necessary to assess the reliability of submitted or published research, the Editorial Office may request supporting documentation, including underlying data, ethics approval records, informed consent documentation, clinical trial registration details, original images, statistical outputs, or other relevant research materials.
Credible concerns involving plagiarism, authorship disputes, data or image manipulation, duplicate publication, unethical research practices, or other forms of publication misconduct will be assessed confidentially and fairly.
The Editorial Office may seek clarification or supporting information from authors, reviewers, institutions, research ethics committees, funding organizations, or other relevant parties.
Depending on the outcome of an investigation, the journal may take appropriate editorial action, including manuscript rejection, correction, expression of concern, retraction, or another notice necessary to protect the integrity of the scholarly record.
Research involving human participants must comply with applicable ethical and legal requirements and, where required, receive approval from an appropriate Institutional Review Board (IRB), Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC), or equivalent independent ethics body.
For research involving identifiable participants, patients, clinical images, or personal information, appropriate informed consent and protection of privacy and confidentiality must be ensured. Where applicable, research involving human participants should follow internationally recognized ethical principles, including the Declaration of Helsinki.
Research involving animals must comply with applicable institutional and national requirements concerning animal welfare and the ethical use of animals in research.
Authors must disclose the use of generative artificial intelligence or other AI-assisted technologies when such tools have made a material contribution to manuscript preparation or scholarly communication.
AI systems, including large language models and chatbots, cannot be listed as authors because they cannot assume responsibility or accountability for scholarly content. Human authors remain fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, integrity, transparency, and ethical compliance of their work.
Editors and reviewers must protect the confidentiality of submitted materials and should not upload unpublished manuscripts, confidential review reports, or other protected submission materials to unauthorized AI systems.
Believers Medical Journal is committed to maintaining the accuracy and integrity of the published scholarly record. The journal may publish corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, or other editorial notices when necessary.
Retraction may be considered when published findings are found to be unreliable or when serious concerns involving plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabricated data, ethical violations, or other matters materially affect the reliability of an article.
Articles published by Believers Medical Journal are freely and immediately accessible online without subscription or reader-access charges, subject to the journal's applicable open-access and licensing policies.
Authors retain copyright in their published work and grant Believers Medical Journal the rights necessary to publish, reproduce, and distribute their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
The journal welcomes responsible scholarly discussion concerning published articles. Readers and researchers may raise concerns regarding the accuracy, methodology, interpretation, or ethical aspects of published work.
The Editorial Office will assess such concerns appropriately and may publish a clarification, correction, expression of concern, retraction, or other editorial notice when warranted.
Editorial decisions at BeMJ are made independently of sponsors, advertisers, funding organizations, commercial interests, and institutional pressures. Manuscripts are evaluated on relevant scholarly, scientific, and ethical considerations.
Believers Medical Journal is committed to handling complaints and editorial appeals fairly, confidentially, impartially, and consistently.
Complaints may concern editorial conduct, peer review, publication delays, ethical matters, competing interests, or issues relating to published content. Formal complaints may be submitted through the journal's official contact channels.
Authors may request reconsideration of an editorial decision by submitting a reasoned appeal that identifies the manuscript, specifies the decision being appealed, explains the grounds for reconsideration, and provides relevant supporting information.
Appeals will be considered by the Editor-in-Chief or an appropriately uninvolved editor. Where a complaint or appeal concerns the Editor-in-Chief, the matter should be referred to an appropriate independent senior editorial or publishing authority.
Believers Medical Journal (BeMJ) is committed to recognized principles of responsible scholarly publishing, including editorial independence, accountable authorship, ethical peer review, research integrity, transparent correction of the scholarly record, and fair consideration of complaints and appeals.
The opinions, interpretations, findings, and conclusions expressed in articles published by Believers Medical Journal are those of the respective authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Editors, Editorial Board, Publisher, or affiliated institutions. Authors remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, ethical compliance, and scientific integrity of their published work.