Editorial PoliciesJournal of Clinical and Practical Nursing
JCPN maintains rigorous editorial standards aligned with international best practices in scholarly publishing. Our policies ensure transparency, integrity, and quality in all published nursing research.
Editorial Independence
The Journal of Clinical and Practical Nursing maintains complete editorial independence in all publication decisions. Manuscripts are evaluated solely on their scientific merit, originality, methodological rigor, and relevance to nursing practice and science. Editorial decisions are never influenced by commercial interests, funding sources, author affiliations, or institutional pressures that could compromise the integrity of the peer review process.
Our editorial board comprises internationally recognized nursing scholars with diverse expertise spanning clinical practice, research methodology, education, and healthcare policy. This diversity ensures manuscripts receive evaluation from specialists who understand the clinical contexts and scientific approaches relevant to each submission. Board members recuse themselves from decisions involving conflicts of interest, including manuscripts from their own institutions or collaborators.
Double-Blind Review
Author and reviewer identities are concealed throughout the peer review process to ensure impartial evaluation based solely on scientific merit.
Conflict Declaration
Authors, reviewers, and editors must disclose any relationships that could bias the research or its evaluation.
Originality Verification
All submissions are screened using plagiarism detection software to ensure content originality and proper attribution.
COPE Compliance
We adhere to Committee on Publication Ethics guidelines for handling ethical concerns and research misconduct.
Research Ethics Standards
All research involving human participants must have received appropriate ethics committee or institutional review board approval prior to study commencement. Authors must describe informed consent procedures in their methods section and confirm adherence to the Declaration of Helsinki principles for research involving human subjects. Studies involving vulnerable populations require additional ethical justification.
Research involving animals must comply with institutional and national guidelines for humane treatment and must have received appropriate ethics approval. Clinical trials must be prospectively registered in a public trials registry with the registration number reported in the manuscript. Retrospective registration does not satisfy this requirement for prospective studies.
Authorship and Acknowledgments
JCPN follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors criteria for authorship. All individuals listed as authors must have made substantial contributions to conception or design, data acquisition, analysis or interpretation, manuscript drafting or critical revision, and final approval of the version to be published. Contributors who do not meet all authorship criteria should be acknowledged rather than listed as authors.
Ghost authorship and guest authorship are not permitted. All authors must agree to submission and take responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. Changes to authorship after submission require written agreement from all authors and explanation of the reasons for the change. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring all authors have approved the final version.
Corrections and Appeals
We are committed to maintaining accuracy in the published record. If errors are discovered after publication, we publish corrections, errata, or retractions as appropriate. Minor corrections are made directly to articles with notation, while significant errors receive formal correction notices linked to the original article. Authors who discover errors should contact the editorial office promptly.
Authors who disagree with editorial decisions may submit a formal appeal explaining why they believe the decision should be reconsidered. Appeals are reviewed by editors not involved in the original decision and may include additional reviewer consultation. New evidence or identification of procedural concerns strengthens appeal cases.
Transparency and AI Disclosure
JCPN requires full transparency regarding the use of artificial intelligence and large language model tools in manuscript preparation. Authors must disclose any AI assistance in writing, data analysis, or figure generation, specifying the tools used and their role. AI tools cannot be listed as authors since they cannot take responsibility for published content.
Funding sources, institutional affiliations, and potential conflicts of interest must be disclosed completely. This transparency enables readers to evaluate potential biases and strengthens trust in published research. Full disclosure builds confidence in findings among the clinical communities applying research to patient care.
Committed to Publishing Excellence
Our rigorous editorial policies ensure JCPN publishes nursing research meeting the highest standards of scientific integrity and ethical conduct.
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