Publication Ethics Policy

As a globally active open access publisher, we strive to promote the best practices in the academic arena and maintain integrity in all of our publishing activities. We follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the Cope of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

All of our publishing activities are guided by the following core ethical values: 

  • Authorship and contributorship: All authors and co-authors must meet the criteria for authorship and ensure appropriate credit is given in their manuscript. Authors are encouraged to make a clear statement about contributions to their work. More detailed requirement is available on: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/authorship-and-contributorship#content-title.
  • Originality: Authors must guarantee the submitted manuscript was originally written by them. The work must not have been published previously nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. If the work and/or words of others are included, they must be appropriately cited or quoted.
  • Data access and citation: Authors may be requested to provide the raw data relevant to the paper for editorial review. They should also be prepared to provide public access to such data. Data must be cited in the same way as article, book, and web citations and authors are required to include data citations as part of their reference list. More detailed requirement is available on: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/data-sharing-policy#content-title; https://www.amegroups.com/pages/data-and-reproducibility#content-title.
  • Acknowledgment of sources: The authors should properly acknowledge any work in the manuscript that has been contributed by others.
  • Declaration and conflicts of interest: All submissions must include disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest. More detailed requirement is available on: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/conflicts-of-interest#content-title.
  • Reporting standards: Authors of original research papers should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance.
  • Human and Animal Rights: For research that includes experiments involving humans, a statement of compliance is required to show that procedures were followed in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national). For research that reports on experiments involving animals, authors are asked to indicate whether the institutional and/or national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed. More detailed requirement is available on: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/research-ethics-policy#content-title.
  • Guideline for Responsible AI Usage: Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely used in scholarly publishing. While improving the efficiency of scientific research and publishing operations, it has also introduced a series of publishing ethics and governance challenges. AME Publishing Company, our affiliated journals, and editors are obligated to ensure the confidentiality of all manuscript-related information submitted by authors, including manuscripts, figures, tables, and core findings. None of these materials (in whole or in part) may be uploaded to or shared with any AI or non-AI system, platform, vehicle, or entity that cannot guarantee confidentiality.If AME Publishing Company uses AI tools during manuscript processing and publication, we will transparently disclose the details to authors, reviewers, and readers—including the purpose, tool name and version, scenario and stage, method of use, and whether human editors conducted manual verification of accuracy and validity. 

 

Similarly, readers, media, and scholarly disseminators should also be aware that when utilizing AI tools to translate, summarize, generate social media content, create visual figures, produce videos, design posters, draft lecture abstracts, or create presentation slides based on published academic works, they must ensure full protection of copyright. Sharing copyright-protected works with insecure third-party AI platforms may constitute copyright infringement. Furthermore, AI tools may generate inaccurate content that misinterprets original findings. Users must verify AI output and fully disclose AI tool usage.

For full guideline on permitted and prohibited AI scenarios across the publication life cycle for our authors, reviewers, editors, readers, media, and scholarly desseminators, e.g., researching, analyzing, writing, reviewing, ethical/compliance review, in-house content review, reviewer matching, decision making, copy-editing, AI disclosure, etc., please refer to: https://www.amegroups.com/guideline-for-responsible-ai-usage.

 

 

Updated on November 12, 2026