Policies

The journal’s access policy explains reader access, reuse, registration, subscription, and embargo terms.

The journal’s fees and business-model policy states any author-facing charges and how editorial independence is protected.

• Editorial independence

AI tools cannot be authors; authors remain responsible for content, disclosure, accuracy, citations, data, and images.

• AI cannot be an author
• Material use should be disclosed
• Confidential manuscripts protected

Evidence-based complaints and appeals may be sent to exec369-phase4-60f40478-20260901-diag-owner@blackhole.postmarkapp.com for editorial review.

• Evidence-based rationale
• Independent review where practical
• Confidential handling
• Possible corrective action

The journal’s copyright and licensing policy explains author, publication, preservation, and reuse rights.

• Version-of-record and third-party material responsibilities

Data availability, sensitive-data limits, privacy, consent, evidence retention, and citation expectations.

• Data statements expected
• Sensitive data limits
• Privacy and consent
• Persistent identifiers where available

Public board record with role, affiliation, country, and profile links where available, plus conflict-handling rules.

• Consent before listing
• Annual review
• No privileged publication treatment

Double-blind peer review, with editorial screening, reviewer responsibilities, and final editorial accountability described in the full policy.

• Double-blind peer review
• Reviewer confidentiality
• Appeals process

Policy for plagiarism, duplicate publication, text recycling, translated plagiarism, citation manipulation, and legitimate overlap.

• No fixed similarity percentage
• Author explanation may be requested
• Pre- and post-publication action

Preservation routes for the canonical journal website, publication records, article files, issue pages, metadata, backups, and assigned DOI records.

• Canonical journal website
• Article and issue records
• Backups and exports
• Repository records where assigned

Responsibilities and procedures for authors, reviewers, editors, the publisher, investigations, and post-publication notices.

• Author responsibilities
• Editor responsibilities
• Misconduct handling
• Corrections and retractions

Public information about policy coverage, editorial independence, verified facts, and publisher/platform roles.

• Public policy framework
• Publisher/platform roles
• Independent indexing decisions

The repository policy explains which versions may be deposited and the citation, identification, and permissions that apply.

• Cite DOI or canonical URL
• Identify the deposited version
• Respect third-party rights