- Publication ethicsMisconduct ends a submission and stays on the record
- Fabrication, falsification and plagiarism end a submission and, after publication, lead to a retraction that remains visible. Allegations are put to the authors before any decision is taken, and the editors record what was decided and why.
- AuthorshipNamed for the work, and answerable for it
- An author is someone who contributed substantively to the work, approved the version that was submitted, and can answer for it. Everyone who meets that is named, and the contributions are recorded on the declarations page.
- Conflicts of interestInterests are declared, and kept out of the decision
- Authors declare funding and relevant interests. Editorial decisions are assigned to editors free of declared interests in the submission.
- Ethical oversightApproval and consent, where the work needs them
- Research involving people, their data or their tissue names the approving body, the reference of its decision, and how consent was obtained.
- Data and materialsWhere the evidence can be found
- Where a result depends on data or code, the article states where these can be found and under what terms.
- Third-party materialPermissions travel with the manuscript
- Authors cite and clear publication rights for figures, tables, data and long quotations from other sources. Third-party material appears under the article's licence; authors cite and describe material governed by different terms.
- Generative toolsAuthorship rests with the people who answer for the work
- Where generative tools were used substantively, the article says so, and the named authors remain responsible for every claim in it.
- Corrections and retractionsEvery change to a published article is published
- Corrections appear alongside the article they correct, and a retracted article stays retrievable, marked and citable as part of the record.
- After publicationConcerns are taken up after publication
- Anyone may write to the editors about a published article. A concern that holds leads to a correction or a retraction, both of which stay part of the record, and whoever raised it is told what was decided.
- ComplaintsComplaints receive a written answer
- Complaints about an editorial decision or about conduct go to the editors and receive a written answer. Complaints concerning the editor-in-chief go to the publisher.
- RepositoriesPost the published version anywhere, at once
- The licence permits immediate deposit of the published version in an institutional or subject repository, on a preprint server or on the author's site. The deposit carries attribution and a link to the article.
- Financial modelPublisher-provided journal operations
- The Swissi Institute for AI provides the journal's publishing infrastructure and operations as part of its institutional work. The peer-review charge funds independent review and, for accepted articles, publication production. Editorial decisions remain based on the manuscript.
- AdvertisingPages are reserved for editorial publication
- The journal reserves its pages for editorial content and Swissi institutional navigation.
- Direct marketingThe journal invites work in public
- Calls for papers are published on this site. Where the editors write to someone about a piece of work, they say who is writing and why.
