Publication Ethics
Clinics Surgery is an open access journal which follows the publication guidelines from COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). The main responsibility of the journal is to make sure the work submitted by the authors is their own work. To ensure this, the authors are required to attach a copy stating that the work is own and not plagiarized from other works. The authors endorse that they have disclosed all actual or potential conflicts of interest with their work.
Clinics Surgery checks the work of authors even before proceeding for review for Data falsification in which the author makes up the data which is not his own, Plagiarism where the same data has been entered from elsewhere, Multiple submissions when the author makes the submission to one or more journal same time, data slicing-up where the author splits one worthy paper into several distinctive papers.