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Author Instructions
3.4 Publication Ethics Statement
The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to
guarantee to add high-quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication.
Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like,
do arise. The editors of Mini-invasive Surgery take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed
in such cases with zero tolerance policy.
Authors wishing to publish their papers in Mini-invasive Surgery must abide to the following:
The author(s) must disclose any possibility of a conflict of interest in the paper prior to submission.
The authors should declare that there is no academic misconduct in their manuscript in the cover letter.
Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their
findings.
Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the manuscript so that other researchers
can replicate the work.
Authors should provide raw data if referees and the editors of the journal request.
Simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal is not tolerated.
Republishing content that is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper that is already
published in another language will not be accepted).
The manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already published
figures or images, please get the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license.
Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.
Plagiarism is not acceptable in OAE journals.
Plagiarism involves the inclusion of large sections of unaltered or minimally altered text from an existing source without
appropriate and unambiguous attribution, and/or an attempt to misattribute original authorship regarding ideas or results,
and copying text, images, or data from another source, even from your own publications, without giving credit to the
source.
As to reusing the text that is copied from another source, it must be between quotation marks and the source must be
cited. If a study’s design or the manuscript’s structure or language has been inspired by previous studies, these studies
must be cited explicitly.
If plagiarism is detected during the peer-review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after
publication, we may publish a Correction or retract the paper.
Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results so that
the findings are not accurately represented in the research record.
Image files must not be manipulated or adjusted in any way that could lead to misinterpretation of the information
provided by the original image.
Irregular manipulation includes: introduction, enhancement, moving, or removing features from the original image;
grouping of images that should be presented separately, or modifying the contrast, brightness, or color balance to obscure,
eliminate, or enhance some information.
If irregular image manipulation is identified and confirmed during the peer-review process, we may reject the manuscript.
If irregular image manipulation is identified and confirmed after publication, we may publish a Correction or retract the
paper.
OAE reserves the right to contact the authors’ institution(s) to investigate possible publication misconduct if the editors
find conclusive evidence of misconduct before or after publication. OAE has a partnership with iThenticate, which
is the most trusted similarity checker. It is used to analyze received manuscripts to avoid plagiarism to the greatest
extent possible. When plagiarism becomes evident after publication, we will retract the original publication or require
modifications, depending on the degree of plagiarism, context within the published article, and its impact on the overall
integrity of the published study. Journal editors will act under the relevant COPE guidelines.

4. Authorship
Authorship credit of OAE journals should be solely based on substantial contributions to a published study, as specified in
the following four criteria:
1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data
for the work;
2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
3. Final approval of the version to be published;
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.
All those who meet these criteria should be identified as authors. Authors must specify their contributions in the section
Authors’ Contributions of their manuscripts. Contributors who do not meet all the four criteria (like only involved in
acquisition of funding, general supervision of a research group, general administrative support, writing assistance,