Misconduct including fabrication and falsification
PUPJST takes misconduct seriously and will act according to COPE guidelines to protect the integrity of scholarly work. Examples of misconduct include (but are not limited to):
- Affiliation misrepresentation
- Breaches in copyright/use of third-party material without appropriate permissions
- Citation manipulation
- Duplicate submission/publication
- “Ethics dumping”
- Image or data manipulation/fabrication
- Peer review manipulation