Publishing Policies

Content integrity

Standards for text, images, data, reporting and responsible AI use.

Plagiarism and text recycling

Sources, ideas, words, images and data must be attributed; reuse of an author's own material must be transparent and justified.

Suspected overlap is evaluated in context, including the amount, location, originality and effect on the scientific record.
Methods language may require limited conventional overlap, but copied interpretation, results or distinctive expression requires quotation, citation or correction.
ISAIS may use manual or technical similarity checks when available, but does not claim a named detection service unless it is contracted and active.
Material overlap may lead to clarification, revision, rejection, correction or retraction depending on severity and publication status.

Images must preserve the meaning of the original data and make any processing reproducible and interpretable.

Global adjustments to brightness, contrast or colour may be acceptable when they do not obscure, eliminate or misrepresent information.
Selective enhancement, moving, removing, duplicating or combining features is not acceptable unless scientifically justified, clearly disclosed and visually marked.
Authors retain original, uncropped image data and provide it to the journal when integrity questions arise.
Composite images, gels, microscopy and diagnostic images should identify boundaries, controls, scale and processing relevant to interpretation.

Human contributors remain accountable for accuracy, originality, attribution, confidentiality and every editorial decision.

AI systems cannot be authors. Authors disclose significant use, the tool and purpose in the cover letter and appropriate manuscript section.
Authors verify output, sources, permissions and absence of fabricated or plagiarized material; disclosure does not transfer responsibility to the tool.
Reviewers and editors must not upload confidential manuscripts, reports or personal data to external AI systems unless ISAIS has explicitly authorized a secure use and the required permission exists.
Any authorized editorial use must be disclosed where appropriate, checked by a responsible person and must not replace independent judgment.

A disclosed preprint normally does not prevent consideration, but it is not a peer-reviewed version of record.

Authors identify the preprint server, DOI or persistent link and disclose related versions at submission.
The submitted manuscript must not be under formal journal consideration elsewhere, even if a preprint is public.
Authors are responsible for checking the preprint server's update and linking options after journal publication.
Claims about peer review or acceptance must not be added to a preprint before a formal ISAIS decision.

The same or substantially overlapping work must not be submitted or published as separate original records without transparent justification.

Authors disclose related manuscripts, reports, datasets, conference versions and publications and provide copies when requested.
Fragmenting one study into minimally distinct reports, sometimes called salami slicing, is unacceptable when it obscures the complete evidence or repeats conclusions.
Secondary publication may be considered only with editor agreement, clear identification, appropriate permission and reference to the primary record.
Undisclosed simultaneous submission or redundant publication may lead to rejection, notification of another journal or correction of the published record.