Authorship and Contribution
Authors should make meaningful scholarly contributions, approve final outputs, and accept responsibility for the integrity of the work.
Research and Publication Ethics
Credible scholarship begins with integrity.
INSPIRE promotes responsible research conduct, transparent dissemination, ethical authorship, and peer-reviewed publication standards.
Originality and Plagiarism Prevention
Submissions should be original, properly cited, and free from plagiarism, duplicate publication, and unauthorized use of others’ work.
Peer Review Integrity
Review should be fair, confidential, constructive, timely, and free from undisclosed conflicts of interest.
Data and Research Participant Protection
Researchers should follow applicable ethical approvals, informed consent practices, data privacy requirements, and responsible reporting standards.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Authors, reviewers, editors, and organizers should disclose financial, institutional, personal, or professional conflicts that may affect judgment.
Publication Transparency
Publication processes, fees, review expectations, licensing, corrections, and retraction policies should be stated clearly where applicable.
INSPIRE publication commitment
INSPIRE does not support predatory publication practices, fabricated peer review, paper mills, ghost authorship, citation manipulation, or guaranteed publication claims that bypass ethical editorial review. Members are expected to respect institutional research ethics requirements and the standards of legitimate scholarly publishing.
Publication Support