Editorial policies

 

This page presents a ‘map’ over the relevant policies adopted by the Traffic Safety Research journal. Being a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the journal team aims, to the best of its ability, to adhere to the scholarly publishing practices recommended by this organization. Many of the policy formulations used by the TSR are directly inspired by the COPE guidelines.

Advertising

• Commercially sponsored materials

Appeals

• Appeal procedure (against editor's decision)

Archiving

• Digital preservation

Authorship

• Authorship
• ‘CRediT contribution statement’ (part of manuscript)
• ORCID identification

Competing interests

• ‘Declaration of competing interests’ (part of manuscript)
• For authors
• For editors
• For reviewers

Copyright

• Open Access, copyright, and publication licence

Ethics

• ‘Ethics statement’ (part of manuscript)
• For authors
• For editors
• For reviewers
• Human subjects

Funding

• Funding sources
• ‘Funding statement’ (part of manuscript)

Generative AI technologies

• ‘Declaration of generative AI use’ (part of manuscript)
• For authors
• For editors
• For reviewers

Misconduct

• Complaint procedure (over editor/reviewer actions)
• Misconduct allegations (towards authors)
• Suspicion of ethics violations (by reviewers)

Originality

• Plagiarism
• ‘Prior dissemination declaration’ (part of manuscript)
• Redundant publications
• Text recycling

Post-publication

• Fundamental error in published work
• Post-publication updates
• Post-publication discussion
• Postprint policy

Pre-publication

• Preprint policy

Privacy

• Confidentiality requirement (for reviewers)
• Confidentiality requirement (for editors)
• Journal users privacy

Quality criteria

• Editorial triage and quality criteria

Transparency

• ‘Code availability statement’ (part of manuscript)
• ‘Data availability statement’ (part of manuscript)
• Scientific transparency
• Data and reproducibility
• Open peer review