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

• Advertising policy

Appeals

• Appeal procedure (against editor's decision)

Authorship

• Authorship
• CRediT contribution statement (part of manuscript)
• ORCID

Competing interests

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

Copyright

• Open Access, copyright and publication licence

Ethical guidelines

• For authors
• For editors
• For reviewers

Funding

• Funding declaration (part of manuscript)
• Funding sources

Generative AI technologies

• Declaration of generative AI use in writing (part of manuscript)
• For authors
• For editors
• For reviewers

Human subjects

• Ethics statement (part of manuscript)
• Studies involving human subjects

Misconduct

• Complaint procedure (over editors/reviewers)
• Misconduct allegations (towards authors)
• Responsibility to report suspected ethics violations (by reviewers)

Originality

• Plagiarism
• 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 privacy statement

Transparency

• Data origins, methods, procedures, ...
• Open peer review
• Reproducibility and data sharing