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Authorship: All authors must have agreed to the submission and to the order of their names on the title page. They must also have agreed that the corresponding author may act on their behalf throughout the editorial review and publication process.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All submissions must include disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed a potential conflict of interest. The corresponding author must confirm that the corresponding author has final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication and has full access to all the data in the study.

Accuracy: Authors of manuscripts that report on original research should present an accurate study performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper which presented the results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation. Conclusions should be based on the evidence presented in the paper and not on personal opinions.

Originality and Plagiarism: Manuscripts submitted must not be previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors of original articles should present an accurate account of the conducted research as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. The authors should ensure that they have written an entirely original work, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, the authors must appropriately cite or quote. Authors should acknowledge ideas as well as previously published results by citing those works in the paper and listing them in the references. Any attempt of plagiarism, data fabrication/falsification, citation manipulation will result in the rejection of the submitted manuscripts. Research Plateau Publishers reserves the right to use plagiarism detecting software to screen submitted papers at all times.

Research Involving Animals or Humans or Biodiversities: If the research work involves the use of animals or human participants/volunteers, the authors should ensure that all procedures performed comply with relevant laws and institutional guidelines. Authors must include the statement which shows approval from the ethic committee for the experiments/clinical trials involving human subjects. Authors must state the approval code in the manuscript. All funding sources must be disclosed in the acknowledgments and any conflicts of interest should be stated.