Editorial Policy

1.    Review System

After submission, the editorial office will conduct a preliminary review of the manuscript. The editorial office will reject manuscripts that are insufficient in originality, have serious scientific or technical mistakes, lack valuable information, or are not in the scope of the journal. Manuscripts that have passed the preliminary review will undergo peer review. The journal adopts a single-blind review system. The manuscript will be sent to two peer reviewers. Authors must respond to reviewers' every comment and submit the revised version on time. This process would be repeated until reviewers and editors are satisfied with the manuscript. The editorial office will select manuscripts fairly based on academic quality and the review comments. The editor-in-chief will make the final decision on whether the manuscript will be published.

2.    Revision

The editorial office may edit or abridge submitted manuscripts, and any changes involving the original meaning will be referred to the authors for consideration. Manuscripts that are not revised and returned within two months will be regarded as automatically withdrawn. The standard “online first” publication period is approximately 50 days. After the “online first” publication, the title, author names and order, and affiliations cannot be modified. However, other textual content, data, figures, tables, and references may still be appropriately revised.

3.    Manuscript Handling

This journal does not accept simultaneous submissions or duplicate publication of the same manuscript. Upon receipt of a manuscript, the editorial office will send an acknowledgment of receipt within two weeks. If the author has not received an acceptance notice from the journal within six months of submission, they may inquire with the editorial office. If the author wishes to submit to another journal, they must contact the editorial office first and should not submit simultaneously. Once simultaneous submission is detected, the journal will issue a statement declaring the manuscript as a duplicate publication and will refuse to consider any submissions from the first author of the manuscript for two years.

4.    Academic Misconduct Detection

All submitted manuscripts are checked for plagiarism using the Academic Misconduct Literature Detection System for scientific journals (CNKI, Wanfang). The similarity rate for Basic Scientific Study papers is controlled below 10%, while other types of papers are controlled below 15%.

5.    Internal Submission

Submissions by Editorial Board Members (EBMs) / Editors must adhere to all journal review and editorial procedures when submitting manuscripts. They shall not participate in the review, editorial work, or acceptance decisions for articles authored by themselves, their family members, or colleagues. Peer review must ensure independence from the relevant authors, editors, and their research groups.

6.    Correction and Retraction

After publishing, if there appears to be an unintended scientific mistake in the article that would not lead to significant impacts on the results and conclusion, the editorial office will publish corrections in the journal as soon as possible, and detailing the changes made to the original article. If severe scientific errors are found in published articles, or the article is suspected of academic misconduct, such as plagiarism and data falsification, the editorial office will issue a statement to inform readers of the risks, initiate an investigation, and announce the final result, or even retract the article with a retraction statement if necessary.