Research Ethics Policy of China Pharmacy

I. Authorship

Manuscripts must be confirmed by all authors, and all authors must agree to submit the manuscript to China Pharmacy. All authors should make clear contributions in the following aspects:

l  Design of the research, data acquisition, and data analysis.

l  Drafting of key knowledge content in the paper, or writing and revising the substantial content of the paper.

l  All authors agree to submit the final draft to China Pharmacy. All authors are responsible for the quality, accuracy, and research ethics of the submitted article. All authors must participate in determining the authorship order.

II. Conflict of Interest and Funding Sources

China Pharmacy requires authors to confirm the names and numbers of funded projects by individuals or their institutions in the submitted articles, and to indicate any potential conflicts of interest. The names and numbers of funded projects should be accurately stated in the article, and the project leader should be listed as an author. 

China Pharmacy prohibits duplicate submissions. If a submitted article is found to be similar or highly similar to a published article in research design, sample characteristics, methods, and result data, it will be considered a duplicate article and will not be accepted. Through literature database retrieval, if the similarity rate between the submitted article and the published article exceeds 30%, it will be directly rejected.

III. Ethics in Human and Animal Research

When reporting human experiments, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed are in line with the ethical standards of the human experimentation committee (institutional and national). If doubt exists concerning whether the research was conducted following ethical standards, authors must explain and demonstrate that the institutional review board has explicitly approved the questionable aspects of the research. When reporting animal experiments, authors should indicate whether they have complied with the relevant institutional and national standards for animal ethics in experiments.

Editorial Office of China Pharmacy