1. Purpose

The purpose of these regulations is to establish and define the operating protocols of the ethics committee of CHNR.

2. Organization of the Ethics Committee

1) The ethics committee comprises 4 members, each with a 2-year term of office. The ethics committee members will discuss and adjudicate any suspected cases of publication malpractice.
2) The ethics committee members should have experience with editorial activities, and should be well aware of research and publication ethics.

3. Duties of the Ethics Committee Members

The ethics committee members are responsible for handling of the suspected cases of research and publication malpractice. When reviewers or readers suspect publication malpractice such as fabrication, falsification, salami slicing, plagiarism, or simultaneous/duplicate publication, inappropriate changes in authorship, an undisclosed conflict of interest, ethical problems with a submitted manuscript, a reviewer who has appropriated an author’s idea or data, complaints against editors, and so on, the process of resolution will be initiated following the flowchart provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).