Publication Ethics
JQPP requires authors and editors to maintain the integrity, accuracy, attribution, and transparency of the publication record. Authors are responsible for submitted work; editors are responsible for applying the journal's published standards consistently.
Originality, attribution, and evidence
Submissions must not conceal substantially overlapping prior publication. Relevant preprints, working papers, reports, conference versions, or other public versions should be disclosed; prior public availability does not by itself make a work ineligible. Text, ideas, data, figures, tables, images, code, and other material derived from others must be appropriately attributed, and authors are responsible for any permissions required for third-party material.
Authors must not knowingly fabricate, falsify, or materially misrepresent data, sources, methods, professional observations, or results. Evidence should be proportionate to the claims being made. Where evidence cannot be made public because of confidentiality, privacy, security, contractual, or legal constraints, the limitation should be disclosed. JQPP-hosted preprints remain subject to the same basic requirements for authorship, attribution, rights, integrity, and legality.
Authorship, interests, and responsibility
Named authors should have made a meaningful contribution and should approve the submitted version. Honorary, purchased, fictitious, or status-only authorship is not acceptable. A submitting author acting for co-authors is responsible for confirming that all listed authors have authorized the submission.
Authors should disclose relationships or interests that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the work. Relevant funding, sponsorship, or institutional support should also be identified. A declaration of “no competing interests” or “no external funding” may be used when accurate.
Research ethics, privacy, and AI use
Where a submission involves human participants, personal data, confidential records, proprietary information, regulated datasets, or other ethics-sensitive material, authors are responsible for meeting applicable approval, consent, privacy, confidentiality, and legal requirements. Where relevant, the article should state the applicable approval, consent, exemption, or limitation.
AI systems must not be listed as authors. Authors remain responsible for all submitted content, including factual accuracy, citations, analysis, permissions, and originality. Material use of generative AI should be disclosed when it meaningfully affects drafting, analysis, coding, literature synthesis, figure generation, evidence processing, or interpretation.
Editorial integrity
Editorial decisions are independent of publication payment. An editor with a material conflict concerning a submission should not make the acceptance decision. The manuscript should be reassigned or otherwise handled to preserve independent judgment.
Corrections and concerns
JQPP may issue corrections, withdraw or remove preprint records, or retract published articles where errors, integrity concerns, rights violations, or legal issues warrant such action. Substantive changes should be documented rather than silently replacing the public record. See Corrections & Retractions.
Concerns should identify the relevant manuscript, preprint, or article, the specific issue, and supporting information where available. Concerns are reviewed by the editorial office and handled in proportion to the issue raised. They may be sent to the editorial office.