Our Journals

       Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing as recommended by The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME have been incorporated in our policies for publication ethics and research integrity

       Submission of a manuscript to the “Current Topics in Nutraceutical Research (CTNR)” implies that all authors have read and agreed to its content and that the manuscript conforms to the journal’s policies pertaining to Research involving plants, animals and human, and Standards for research in complementary and alternative medicine.

Experiments dealing with plants and plant materials
       Experiments dealing with all plants, including the collection of plant material, must comply with institutional, national, or international guidelines. Field studies should be conducted in accordance with local legislation, and the manuscript should include a statement specifying the appropriate permissions and/or licenses. Voucher specimens must be deposited in a public herbarium or other public collection providing access to deposited material. Information on the voucher specimen and who identified it must be included in the manuscript.

Experiments dealing with Animals
       Experimental research on vertebrates or any regulated invertebrates must comply with institutional, national, or international guidelines, and where available should have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee. The fundamental principles to adhere to when conducting research in animals is outlined under IACUC Central (https://www.aalas.org/iacuc). A statement detailing compliance with relevant USA guidelines must be included in the manuscript. If a study has been granted an exemption from requiring ethics approval, this should also be detailed in the manuscript (including the name of the ethics committee that granted the exemption and the reasons for the exemption). Manuscripts will not be reviewed if the in-house editor considers that the research has not been carried out within an appropriate ethical framework of Animal Use and Care.

Experiments dealing with Human Subjects
      Research involving human participants, human material, or human data, must have been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/) and must have been approved by an appropriate institutional review board. A statement detailing this, including the name of the ethics committee and the reference number where appropriate, must appear in all manuscripts reporting such research. If a study has been granted an exemption from requiring ethics approval, this should also be detailed in the manuscript (including the name of the ethics committee that granted the exemption). Manuscripts will not be reviewed if the in-house editor considers that the research has not been carried out within an appropriate ethical framework.
Research involving human participants, informed consent to participate in the study must be obtained from participants (or their parent or legal guardian in the case of minors) and a statement to this effect should appear in the manuscript. Consent must be obtained for all forms of personally identifiable data including biomedical, clinical, and biometric data. Documentary evidence of consent must be supplied if requested.

Clinical Trial registration
      CTNR supports improved reporting of clinical trials. To this end, authors are recommended to register their clinical trial with Clinical Trial.Gov, US National Library of Medicine (https://clinicaltrials.gov). The trial registration number and date of registration should be included in the manuscript.

Data sharing policy
      It was our understanding submission of a manuscript to CTNR assumes that materials contained in the manuscript, including all relevant raw data, will be freely available to any scientist wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes, without breaching any confidentiality. Authors are encouraged to deposit their datasets either in publicly available repositories or presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files.

Standards for research in complementary and alternative medicine
      Standards for research in complementary and alternative medicine are similar to any evidence-based research. We believe that Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) research should be held to the same standards and evidence threshold as those of medicine research. All clinical research manuscripts must comply with international and national standards for such work. All CAM treatments/techniques to be tested on animal models and/or human patients must have adequate prior evidence that the treatment/technique shows some potential of being therapeutic. Manuscripts must include evidence that takes the form of objective, measurable data from previously published peer reviewed literature which adheres to scientific principles (for instance in vitro or cellular work). Manuscripts describing work lacking this evidence will not be considered on ethical grounds.

Conflict of Interest Disclosure
      It is the policy of this journal and the publisher (New Century Health Publishers, LLC) that readers of the journal should be made aware of any affiliation or financial interest that may affect the author's presentation. Therefore, authors of review articles should disclose at the time of submission any financial arrangement they may have with a company whose product figures prominently in the submitted manuscript or with a company making a competing product. Such information will be held in confidence while the paper is under review and will not influence the editorial decision, but if the article is accepted for publication, the editors will usually discuss with the authors the manner in which such information is to be communicated to the reader.
This information should be provided on a separate sheet of paper under title "Conflict of Interest Disclosure" and included with the manuscript submitted. Please provide your name, signature and the title of the manuscript below the "Conflict of Interest Disclosure" statement. If there is no conflict of interest, simply state so. Editors are not to share this statement with the reviewers of the manuscript.

Evaluation of Statistical Treatment of Data
      Authors must provide a detailed description of statistical methods and measures used in their research, including justification of the appropriateness of the statistical test used. Reviewers will be asked to check the statistical methods, and the manuscript is also evaluated by the Statistical Editor who is part of the Editorial Board of the journal.

Contribution of Authors
      Authorship on the manuscript requires substantial contribution to the conception, design of the work, acquisition, analysis, interpretation of data, writing the manuscript or substantively revising it. It is also assumed that all authors have approved the submitted version and ensure the accuracy or integrity of the work in its entirety. The corresponding authors wishing to make changes to authorship will be required to request permission with justification prior to publication. Please note that changes to authorship cannot be made after acceptance of a manuscript.

Managing Accuracy of Citations
      Research articles and non-research articles (e.g. Opinion, Review, and Commentary articles) must cite appropriate and relevant literature from peer-reviewed publications in support of the claims made in the body of the manuscript. Authors should cite the original work rather than a review article that cites an original work. Authors should not use an excessive number of citations to support one point.

Research or publication Misconduct
      Manuscripts submitted to CTNR must be original and the manuscript, or substantial parts of it, must not be under consideration by any other journal. The manuscript must not be already published in any journal or in any other citable form. CTNR is a member of CrossCheck’s plagiarism detection initiative and takes seriously all cases of publication misconduct. Any suspected cases of covert duplicate manuscript submission will be handled as outlined in the COPE guidelines and the Editor may contact the authors’ institution. CTNR also endorses the policies of the ICMJE in relation to overlapping publications. In handling any research or publication misconduct, the author(s) are first requested for an explanation for possible allegation of misconduct. If the misconduct is proven, and the scientific integrity of the article is significantly undermined, articles may be retracted. Any correction to, or retraction of, published articles will be made by publishing a correction or a retraction note linked to the original article. Any alterations to the original article will be described in the note. The original article remains in the public domain and the subsequent Correction or Retraction will be widely indexed. In some cases, we may have to remove the published material from our website. Changes to a published article that may affect the outcome of the article, may be published at discretion of the editor as a correction linked to the original article. Manipulation of research data with the intention to create a false interpretation is a very serious misconduct. Such activities include, manipulating images, removing outliers or “inconvenient” results, changing, adding or omitting data points, etc. Questions regarding data integrity will be referred to the Editor who may request detailed study data from the author(s) for inspection or verification. If the original data cannot be produced, the manuscript may be rejected or, in the case of a published article, retracted. Cases of suspected misconduct will be reported to the author(s)’ institution(s).

Reviewer Responsibilities:

• Reviewers who have accepted manuscript assignments are normally expected to submit their reviews within three weeks. They should recuse themselves from the assignment if it becomes apparent to them at any stage that they do not possess the required expertise to perform the review, or that they may have a potential conflict of interest in performing the review (e.g., one resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, institutions, or companies associated with the manuscript).
• Privileged information or ideas obtained by reviewers through the peer review process must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents, and must not be shown to or discussed with others
• When conducting their reviews, reviewers are asked to do so as objectively as possible, refraining from engaging in personal criticism of the author(s). They are encouraged to express their views clearly, explaining and justifying all recommendations made. They should always attempt to provide detailed and constructive feedback to assist the author(s) in improving their work, even if the manuscript is, in their opinion, not publishable.
• Reviewers should identify in their reviews relevant published work that has not been cited by the author(s), together with any instances in which proper attribution of sources has not been provided. They should call to the responsible editor’s attention any major resemblances between a manuscript under consideration and other published articles or papers of which they are aware, as well as any concerns they might have in relation to the ethical acceptability of the research reported in the manuscript.

Editor Responsibilities toward Authors

• Providing a clear statement of the Journal’s policies on authorship criteria
• Providing guidelines to authors for preparing and submitting manuscripts
• Treating all authors with fairness, courtesy, objectivity, honesty, and transparency
• Establishing and defining policies on conflicts of interest for all involved in the publication process, including editors, staff (e.g., editorial and sales), authors, and reviewers
• Protecting the confidentiality of every author’s work
• Establishing a system for effective and rapid peer review
• Making editorial decisions with reasonable speed and communicating them in a clear and constructive manner
• Being vigilant in avoiding the possibility of editors and/or referees delaying a manuscript for suspect reasons
• Establishing clear guidelines for authors regarding acceptable practices for sharing experimental materials and information, particularly those required to replicate the research, before and after publication
• Establishing a procedure for reconsidering editorial decisions
• Describing, implementing, and regularly reviewing policies for handling ethical issues and allegations or findings of misconduct by authors and anyone involved in the peer review process
• Informing authors of solicited manuscripts that the submission will be evaluated according to the journal’s standard procedures or outlining the decision-making process if it differs from those procedures
• Developing mechanisms, in cooperation with the publisher, to ensure timely publication of accepted manuscripts
• Clearly communicating all other editorial policies and standards

Publisher responsibilities
As a responsible publisher following the code of conduct as recommended by Committee on publication ethics we adhere to the following responsibilities as a publisher

• Defining the relationship between publisher, editor and other parties in a contract
• Respecting privacy (for example, for research participants, for authors, for peer reviewers)
• Protecting intellectual property and copyright
• Fostering editorial independence
• Working with journal editors to: Set journal policies appropriately and aim to meet those policies, particularly with respect to: –
• Editorial independence
• Research ethics, including confidentiality, consent, and the special requirements for human and animal research
• Authorship – Transparency and integrity (for example, conflicts of interest, research funding, reporting standards
• Peer review and the role of the editorial team beyond that of the journal editor
• Appeals and complaints
• Communicating journal policies (for example, to authors, readers, peer reviewers)
• Reviewing journal policies periodically, particularly with respect to new recommendations from the COPE
• Code of Conduct for Editors and the COPE Best Practice Guidelines •
• Maintaining the integrity of the academic record
• Assisting the parties (for example, institutions, grant funders, governing bodies) responsible for the investigation of suspected research and publication misconduct and, where possible, facilitate in the resolution of these cases
• Publishing corrections, clarifications, and retractions
• Publishing content on a timely basis

Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
This journal is open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or / institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full text articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or author. This is in accordance with Budapest Open Access Initiative. And CC_BY-4.0 Licence