Iranian Journal of Diabetes and Obesity
Shahid Sadoughi University Of Medical Sciences
Sat, Oct 18, 2025
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Ethical Guidelines Ethical Guidelines
| Post date: 2024/01/16 |
Authorship and Acknowledgements:
Based on the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, by the ICMJE, Authors should have made significant conceptual, intellectual, experimental, and analytical contributions to the research, as well as having participated in writing and revising the manuscript. Also each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to be responsible for its content.
Each author should meet all criteria (A, B, C, and D) that recommended by the ICMJE as following conditions:
1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
3. Final approval of the version to be published; AND
4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Each author should be accountable for the parts of the work he or she has done. In addition, each author should be able to identify which coauthors are responsible for specific other parts of the work and should have confidence in the integrity of the contributions of any coauthors.
The authors also must certify that the manuscript represents valid data and has not been published in any form and is not being submitted for in the form of scientific presentations for publication elsewhere.
If requested, authors should be prepared to provide the data and must cooperate fully in obtaining and providing the data on which the manuscript is based for examination by the editors or their assignees.
The contributors who do not meet the authorship criteria should be mentioned as “Acknowledgments”.
Changes in Authorship: The authors should be agreed the order of authorship among themselves before submitting the manuscript. Changes in authorship (ie, order, addition, and deletion of authors) should be discussed and approved by all authors. Any requests for such changes in authorship after initial manuscript submission and before publication should be explained in a letter to the editor signed by all the authors or email from all authors.
Randomized control trials:
Randomized controlled trials must be according to The CONSORT Statement guideline.
Committee on Publication Ethics: IJDO is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Plagiarism of text from a previously published manuscript by the same or another author is a serious publication offence. Small amounts of text may be used, but only where the source of the material quoted is clearly acknowledged. Fraudulent data or data stolen from other authors is also unethical and will be treated accordingly. Any alleged offence is considered initially by the Editorial Team.
Retraction Policy: The IJDO for retraction of a published article uses the COPE flowchart (http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines)
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, ICMJE (http://www.icmje.org/).
All manuscripts submitted to IJDO will be checked after submission and Before Publication in Terms of Plagiarism using specific software. Submission of a paper implies that it reports unpublished results that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. If previously published tables, illustrations, or texts are included, this should be clearly indicated in the manuscript and the copyright holder’s permission must be obtained. Previously published materials can be cited in a later review or commentary article, but it must be indicated using quotation marks if necessary.
Archiving policy
All studies published in Iranian Journal of Diabetes and Obesity, along with their supplements, are freely and continuously accessible and stored on our website as well as in various international databases worldwide. This ensures long-term digital preservation through platforms such as DOAJ, EBSCO, Index Copernicus, Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC), Google Scholar Citation . Authors are advised to use the final PDF version from the journal's website for self-archiving. The Publisher permits authors to use the final published version of their articles for self-archiving. Additionally, all articles published in Iranian Journal of Diabetes and Obesity , are archived by Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences.
Conflicts of interest
All authors must inform us about any kinds of financial, personal, political, or academic "Conflict of Interest that would potentially affect their judgment. Authors are preferably asked to fill the uniform disclosure form available through: (http://www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf)
The editors of this journal are aware of the risk of conflict of interest in manuscript management and asked to disclose potential conflicts with the author (s), if any, to avoid any decisions influenced by relationships with the authors.
The IJDO requires referees to provide a fair assessment. As such, editors must ensure that reviewers do not have a conflict of interest, which prevents reviewers from acting unfairly. When referees are invited to review a manuscript, they are asked to consider any competing interests about the submitted article. The journal asks the reviewers to refrain from reviewing a paper if there is any conflict. Also, reviewers are prohibited from using the article they are reviewing before its publication for their own benefit.
Data Sharing
Authors are required to provide data to back up their research and to connect their findings, published articles with data. Research data encompasses the outcomes of studies that validate research outcomes, encompassing raw data, processed data, software, algorithms, protocols, models, methods, and other related materials.
This is an open access journal under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) that allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles and allow readers to use them for any other lawful purpose.
Notice
Ethics committee approval code is necessary for all type of manuscripts.
Based on the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, by the ICMJE, Authors should have made significant conceptual, intellectual, experimental, and analytical contributions to the research, as well as having participated in writing and revising the manuscript. Also each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to be responsible for its content.
Each author should meet all criteria (A, B, C, and D) that recommended by the ICMJE as following conditions:
1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
3. Final approval of the version to be published; AND
4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Each author should be accountable for the parts of the work he or she has done. In addition, each author should be able to identify which coauthors are responsible for specific other parts of the work and should have confidence in the integrity of the contributions of any coauthors.
The authors also must certify that the manuscript represents valid data and has not been published in any form and is not being submitted for in the form of scientific presentations for publication elsewhere.
If requested, authors should be prepared to provide the data and must cooperate fully in obtaining and providing the data on which the manuscript is based for examination by the editors or their assignees.
The contributors who do not meet the authorship criteria should be mentioned as “Acknowledgments”.
Changes in Authorship: The authors should be agreed the order of authorship among themselves before submitting the manuscript. Changes in authorship (ie, order, addition, and deletion of authors) should be discussed and approved by all authors. Any requests for such changes in authorship after initial manuscript submission and before publication should be explained in a letter to the editor signed by all the authors or email from all authors.
Randomized control trials:
Randomized controlled trials must be according to The CONSORT Statement guideline.
Committee on Publication Ethics: IJDO is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Plagiarism of text from a previously published manuscript by the same or another author is a serious publication offence. Small amounts of text may be used, but only where the source of the material quoted is clearly acknowledged. Fraudulent data or data stolen from other authors is also unethical and will be treated accordingly. Any alleged offence is considered initially by the Editorial Team.
Retraction Policy: The IJDO for retraction of a published article uses the COPE flowchart (http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines)
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, ICMJE (http://www.icmje.org/).
All manuscripts submitted to IJDO will be checked after submission and Before Publication in Terms of Plagiarism using specific software. Submission of a paper implies that it reports unpublished results that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. If previously published tables, illustrations, or texts are included, this should be clearly indicated in the manuscript and the copyright holder’s permission must be obtained. Previously published materials can be cited in a later review or commentary article, but it must be indicated using quotation marks if necessary.
Archiving policy
All studies published in Iranian Journal of Diabetes and Obesity, along with their supplements, are freely and continuously accessible and stored on our website as well as in various international databases worldwide. This ensures long-term digital preservation through platforms such as DOAJ, EBSCO, Index Copernicus, Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC), Google Scholar Citation . Authors are advised to use the final PDF version from the journal's website for self-archiving. The Publisher permits authors to use the final published version of their articles for self-archiving. Additionally, all articles published in Iranian Journal of Diabetes and Obesity , are archived by Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences.
Conflicts of interest
All authors must inform us about any kinds of financial, personal, political, or academic "Conflict of Interest that would potentially affect their judgment. Authors are preferably asked to fill the uniform disclosure form available through: (http://www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf)
The editors of this journal are aware of the risk of conflict of interest in manuscript management and asked to disclose potential conflicts with the author (s), if any, to avoid any decisions influenced by relationships with the authors.
The IJDO requires referees to provide a fair assessment. As such, editors must ensure that reviewers do not have a conflict of interest, which prevents reviewers from acting unfairly. When referees are invited to review a manuscript, they are asked to consider any competing interests about the submitted article. The journal asks the reviewers to refrain from reviewing a paper if there is any conflict. Also, reviewers are prohibited from using the article they are reviewing before its publication for their own benefit.
Data Sharing
Authors are required to provide data to back up their research and to connect their findings, published articles with data. Research data encompasses the outcomes of studies that validate research outcomes, encompassing raw data, processed data, software, algorithms, protocols, models, methods, and other related materials.
This is an open access journal under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) that allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles and allow readers to use them for any other lawful purpose.
Notice
Ethics committee approval code is necessary for all type of manuscripts.
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