Editorial Policies
- Journal
- Journal of Cervical Cancer
- ISSN
- 2997-2108
- Review
- Single-blind by default
- License
- CC BY 4.0
Who decides, and on what
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
Editorial authority rests with the journal’s editors. Sponsors, advertisers, institutions and the publisher’s commercial functions take no part in the assessment of a manuscript or in the decision on it.
An editor who has a competing interest in a submission — including a manuscript of their own — takes no part in its handling, and it is assigned independently.
Editorial decisions are independent of fees, services, memberships and roles.
Peer review
Review model
Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
Authors who request double-blind review should prepare the manuscript accordingly: For double-blind review, remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, funding details, institution names, and other identifying information from the reviewer manuscript. Provide identifying information separately in the title-page file or submission form.
Screening and referral
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal’s scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
Reviewers
Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
Reviewers assess validity, methods, interpretation, reporting and fit with the journal’s scope, and report competing interests before accepting an invitation.
Decisions
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal.
Decisions are communicated with the reasoning and, where revision is invited, with the points the authors are asked to address.
Ethics and conduct
Research ethics
Studies involving human participants must report the approving ethics committee or institutional review board and the basis of participant consent. Studies involving animals must report the approving body and the applicable welfare standards.
Clinical-trial registration
Interventional clinical trials must be registered in an accepted public trial registry at or before the first participant provides consent for enrollment. The registry name, registration number, and registration date must be reported in the manuscript.
Data availability
Every empirical research manuscript must include a data-availability statement.
The statement should say where the data supporting the findings can be obtained, on what terms, and if access is restricted, why.
Authorship
Authorship reflects substantial contribution to the conception, conduct, analysis or writing of the work, together with approval of the submitted version and accountability for it. Contributors who do not meet those conditions are acknowledged rather than listed as authors. Changes to the author list after submission require the written agreement of every author.
Competing interests
Authors, reviewers and editors disclose financial and non-financial relationships that a reader could reasonably consider relevant to the work. Disclosure is published with the article; a declared interest is not in itself a barrier to publication.
Misconduct
Concerns about plagiarism, data fabrication or falsification, image manipulation, redundant publication or undisclosed competing interests are investigated with the authors and their institution as appropriate, and the outcome is applied to the published record.
Corrections, retractions and withdrawal
Corrections and retractions
Where an error affects the interpretation of an article, a correction is published and linked to it. Where the findings are no longer reliable, a retraction notice is published, states the reason, and remains permanently linked to the original article, which stays available so the record can be read as it stood.
Withdrawal before publication
Authors should contact the editorial office promptly and wait for written confirmation before submitting the work elsewhere.
Manuscripts withdrawn within 3 days of submission are not subject to a withdrawal charge.
Manuscripts withdrawn more than 3 days after submission incur a withdrawal charge equal to 30% of the journal's APC.
Authors must receive official withdrawal confirmation before submitting the manuscript to another journal.
These terms are also published, with the charge itself, on the Article Processing Charges page.
Preservation
This journal’s content is committed to Portico, a not-for-profit digital-preservation archive run by ITHAKA (the organization behind JSTOR). As articles are deposited they enter Portico’s permanent archive, so the scholarly record stays available for the long term — even if a title one day ceases to publish.
Where to go next
- Instructions for AuthorsHow to prepare a manuscript to meet these policies.
- For EditorsThe handling responsibilities these policies place on editors.
- For ReviewersWhat the journal asks of a reviewer.
- Article Processing ChargesPublishing terms, including the complete withdrawal policy.
Digital preservation
This journal’s content is committed to Portico, a not-for-profit digital-preservation archive run by ITHAKA (the organization behind JSTOR). As articles are deposited they enter Portico’s permanent archive, so the scholarly record stays available for the long term — even if a title one day ceases to publish. Read our preservation policy.