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.

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 sources
• Funding declaration (part of manuscript)

Human subjects

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

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
• Postprints
• Post-publication updates
• Post-publication discussion

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