Index Copernicus

Index Copernicus values your relationship with us and recognises your contribution to the advancement of science. It is our duty to protect your privacy and personal data. We present detailed information on how we will use the information you provide without compromising your privacy.

Index Copernicus may use the information you provide, including your name, affiliation, and contact details such as email address, phone number, and postal address, for the processing, publication, and distribution of the manuscript submitted to us.

How We Collect Your Information

We collect your information:

- Directly: When you register on our site, use our services, subscribe to our newsletter or campaigns, place orders with us, request our products, apply for a job with us, report a problem on our site or in our journals, or submit your work.

- Indirectly: Through cookies, third-party websites hosting our backlinks, business partners, and data processors.

How We Use Your Personal Data

As a publishing company, we reserve the right to use your data to:

- Process, publish, and distribute your article

- Personalise our website to suit your preferences

- Increase user interaction and experience with our website

- Enable access to our services

- Maintain communication regarding your research manuscript

- Send invoices and payment requests

- Facilitate transaction processes

- Convey our marketing campaigns

Collected information will not be shared outside Index Copernicus to prevent misuse.

Complaints Policy

Identification and Prevention of Research Misconduct

To identify and prevent the publication of works that commit research misconduct, such as plagiarism, citation manipulation, and falsification/fabrication of data, Index Copernicus journals take necessary measures.

The Crossref Similarity Check service ensures the originality of articles submitted to the journal.

Reviewers and the editorial team ensure that the manuscript is written without engaging in research misconduct.

We adhere to COPE principles if the journal publisher or the editorial team is notified of any report of research misconduct related to an article published in that journal.

Editors-in-chief of our journal follow the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) recommendations when exchanging information with each other about potential misconduct. To ensure the integrity of research and publication, institutions and journals must collaborate in all aspects concerning research and publication integrity. In this situation, our journal cooperates with institutions according to COPE guidelines on "Cooperation between research institutions and journals on research integrity matters."

Complaints regarding editorial content related to the identification and prevention of research misconduct should be made as soon as possible after publication, preferably in writing to the email address: publisherspanel@indexcopernicus.com.