Enacted on October 13, 2009.
Amended on October 30, 2015.

Chapter 1 General Provisions

Article 1 (Purpose)

The purpose of these guidelines for research ethics is to establish the principles and directions for the roles and responsibilities of researchers and reviewers in preventing misconduct and securing ethicality when submitting, reviewing, evaluating or publishing articles to publish research findings in <The Korean Society of Health-system Pharmacists (JKSHP)> published by The Korean Society of Health-system Pharmacists.

Article 2 (Application scope)

These guidelines apply to articles submitted to <JKSHP>.

Chapter 2 Definition of Terminology

Article 3 (Definition)

Terminology used in these guidelines is defined as follows.

• 1. Research ethics: Research ethics are related to research integrity in conducting research, generally including publication ethics, as well as matters regarding fabrication, falsification and plagiarism, matters regarding bioethics and written consent, and matters regarding data analysis and expression. (Amended on October 30, 2015)
• 2. Publication ethics: Publication ethics are related to publication integrity of research outcomes, including authorship, conflict of interest, duplicate, redundant or overlapping publication, and ethical matters in the process of review and editing. (Amended on October 30, 2015)
• 3. Fabrication: Fabrication refers to intentionally creating nonexistent records. (Amended on October 30, 2015)
• 4. Falsification: Falsification refers to selectively changing data obtained from research or falsely explaining inaccurate matters from statistical analysis. (Amended on October 30, 2015)
• 5. Duplicate, redundant or overlapping publication: In this case, contents that are deemed substantially redundant compared with published articles are being published again, including self‐plagiarism, salami publication, and imalas publication. It is a different concept from secondary publication which translates and publishes certain contents after a legitimate approval process, or changes terms and format and republishes for readers in other academic fields. (Amended on October 30, 2015)
• 6. Imalas publication: In this case, the article is published with the same conclusions by adding new cases to the already published article, and this is regarded as a form of duplicate, redundant or overlapping publication. (Amended on October 30, 2015)
• 7. Salami publication: In this case, the article is published in two or more pieces by dividing it into the minimum publication unit after conducting a series of research, and this is regarded as a form of duplicate, redundant or overlapping publication.(Amended on October 30, 2015)
• 8. Self‐plagiarism: In this case, the author uses partial contents, tables and figures of his/her own article that is already published, and this is regarded as a form of duplicate, redundant or overlapping publication. (Amended on October 30, 2015)
• 9. Plagiarism: Plagiarism refers to the act of stealing others' ideas, methods, results and sentences without appropriate citations or approval. (Amended on October 30, 2015)
• 10. (Deleted on October 30, 2015)
• 11. Conflict of interest: Conflict of interest refers to the case in which individuals or organizations related to the publication of the article have some financial interest associated with the relevant article, or are involved in a private or special relationship. (Amended on October 30, 2015)
• 12. Authorship: Authorship is the concept that includes only those who have made actual intellectual contributions to the research in the article to be published as the author. (Amended on October 30, 2015)
• 13. Withdrawal: In this case, the author acknowledges the issues related to the article he/she submitted and voluntarily withdraws the article. This cannot be done when the article is already printed and published in the journal. (Amended on October 30, 2015)
• 14. Retraction: In this case, scientific misconduct or severe errors are detected in relation to the published article, and thus the article is deleted from related data and no longer acknowledged as a research accomplishment so that it is not used as a research material in the future. (Amended on October 30, 2015)

Chapter 3 Research Ethics

Article 4 (Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism)

Researchers shall not violate research ethics such as fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism regarding the research articles submitted to <JKSHP>.

Chapter 4 Publication Ethics

Article 5 (Authorship)

• ① When there is suspicion about unjust author indication or report about misconduct, the Editorial Board may request the listed authors to clarify what they have done in the course of their research.
• ② When requested to 'add authors' or 'delete authors' after granting permission for journal publication, the Editorial Board may request a document clarifying the roles of the relevant authors in the articles as well as the written consent of the current authors.

Article 6 (Conflict of interest)

Researchers shall clarify any private and/or special interests including financial aid given that may have affected the relevant research.

Article 7 (Duplicate, redundant or overlapping publication and errors)

• ① When submitting the articles, researchers shall clarify that the articles were not published in other journals, nor will they be submitted to other journals after they are accepted.
• ② Researchers, if they want to request secondary publication, shall notify the Editorial Board in advance. Duplicate, redundant or overlapping publications aside from secondary publication are not permitted.
• ③ Duplicate, redundant or overlapping publications that are not permitted include 'imalas publication', 'self‐plagiarism', and 'salami publication.'
• ④ Researchers must request revisions when they have discovered errors in their articles. If the errors are severe, they shall withdraw the articles before they are published.

Chapter 5 Reviewer Ethics

Article 8 (Reviewer ethics)

• ① Reviewers include editors and article reviewers.
• ② Reviewers shall acknowledge the independence of the article researchers as professional intellectuals.
• ③ Reviewers shall write letters or emails to authors as politely, concisely and clearly as possible. When notifying about rejection of publication, they shall politely point out that this is not an evaluation of the author as an individual but the result of evaluating whether the relevant manuscript is suitable for the journal publication, and seek to help the author to accept the result.
• ④ Reviewers shall faithfully evaluate the requested articles within the deadline set by the review guidelines, and notify the Board of the results.
• ⑤ If a reviewer's misconduct is confirmed, the Editor-in-Chief may call a meeting of the Editorial Board and make a decision based on the facts of the matter which may result in a warning, admonition, or exclusion from review or editing, or prohibition on journal submission for a certain period of time.

Article 9 (Conflict of interest)

• ① Reviewers shall fairly evaluate the requested articles regardless of any conflict of interest, and describe the results based on rational and adequate grounds.
• ② Conflict of interest that affects a reviewer's article review includes financial relationships, private relationships that involves competition for profit, research competition, and intellectual interest. This must be notified in advance.
• ③ If there are articles that involve editors or reviewers in direct conflict of interest, they must not participate in the evaluation process.

Article 10 (Request for review)

When requesting reviewers for article review, the reviewers must be notified in advance how they should act if they have any conflict of interest in relation to the relevant article or author.

Article 11 (Confidentiality)

• ① Reviewers must maintain confidentiality regarding the articles they review. Unless seeking advice for review, they shall not show the articles to others or discuss them.
• ② Editors shall not disclose the identity of those reporting ethics violation.

Chapter 6 Handling Ethics Violation

Article 12 (Convocation and resolution)

• ① If violation of research ethics or publication ethics is perceived or reported, the Editor-in-Chief shall convene a meeting of the Editorial Board.
• ② Decisions of the Editorial Board are made with the attendance of at least 1/2 of registered members, and resolutions are made by a majority of those in attendance.
• ③ Members involved in ethics violations and/or conflict of interests may state their views but shall not participate in the decision making of related matters.

Article 13 (Review)

• ① When in doubt about research ethics violations, the research institute to which the researcher belonged at the point when the research was conducted is responsible for verification. Thus, the Editorial Board may request the relevant research institute to hold a direct investigation.
• ② When in doubt about publication ethics violations, the ethics violation must be determined by collecting related data. When disciplinary actions are deemed necessary, the researcher must be given the opportunity to exonerate him/herself.

Article 14 (Vindication)

• ① Prior to making decisions on ethics violations, the Editorial Board must provide the researcher with at least one opportunity to exonerate him/herself. This may be in 'closed hearing in attendance' or in document form.
• ② In the case of 'closed hearing in attendance', the Editorial Board maintains confidentiality about the researcher's identity or progress related to the matter and shall not disclose any details to the public.
• ③ If the researcher refuses to present him/herself, another opportunity shall be given. If the researcher refuses again, the Editorial Board may make a decision regarding the violation.

Article 15 (Reversal of decision)

The Editorial Board decides on reversal of decision of the Board after the vindication.

Article 16 (Data storage)

The Editorial Board shall store all materials and minutes of meetings related to the decision for 5 years after the date of decision.

Article 17 (Measures, discipline)

The Editorial Board may make various decisions as follows depending on the degree of misconduct by the researcher.

• 1. Sending letters with educational contents
• 2. Sending official letters to the director of the affiliated institute or the research funding organization
• 3. Announcement of the duplicate, redundant or overlapping publication or misconduct on <JKSHP>
• 4. Announcement by the Publication Committee Chairman of the full account of misconduct on <JKSHP>
• 5. Prohibiting submissions by individuals, units or organizations responsible for misconduct for a certain period of time
• 6. Official withdrawal or retraction of the relevant article
• 7. Notification to other journal editors and citation index agencies

Article 18 (Report)

The Editorial Board shall report the decisions immediately to the Board of Standing Directors with all the evidence and grounds for the decision included.

• Supplementary rules (October 13, 2009)
• ① (Enforcement date) The submission rules shall come into effect from the date of resolution by the Board of Directors.
• ② (Transitional provision) Works executed before the effectuation of the supplementary rules may be regarded to have been executed in accordance with the rules.
• Supplementary rules (October 30, 2015)
• ① (Enforcement date) The submission rules shall come into effect from the date of resolution by the Board of Directors.