Editorial Policies

 

Editorial independence

The editorial decision-making process is independent of all commercial concerns. Editorial decisions are dealt with strictly within the editorial structures.

Authorship

All authors must have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data. Authors should note their contributions. Authors must have revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content and given final approval of the version to be published.

We consider corresponding author to act on behalf of all co-authors during the manuscript assessment and publication process and ask to confirm that the corresponding author is authorized to act on behalf of all co-authors, and that all listed authors have agreed to all contents of the manuscript including the author list and author contribution statements.

Conflict of interest

Authors should provide a conflict of interest statement. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission.

Corrections and retraction

Our responsibility is to maintain the integrity of the published literature and to address questions and challenges. We have distinguished processes to investigate allegations of publication and research misconduct and policies for corrections and retractions. In those cases, we work closely with the authors.

Open Access Policy

This journal offers readers open access to all its contents in accordance with the assumption that free availability of research benefits the acquisition and transfer of knowledge (see Budapest open access initiative and Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in Science and Humanities). The journal is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Authors are at liberty to share their contributions, provided they give proper attribution to the original publication, without asking prior permission from the editors. More information about this license is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Copyright Policy

Authors who publish with Human Biology and Public Health agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are obliged to obtain permission for the reproduction of previously published material of other copyright holders (e.g. figures or tables). Such permission is not necessary, if the reproduction is covered by a statutory citation right, if the material is in the public domain or when the authors themselves hold the copyright for the reproduced material.

Metadata incl. abstract of the articles/contributions are distributed under the conditions of the licence CC0 1.0 Universal.

Archiving Policy

All articles of the journal are additionally stored on the archive server of the German National Library (DNB) and are listed in the DNB catalogue. 

Peer Review

Human Biology and Public Health (HB&PH) is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review based on a single blind review process, where the author does not know who the reviewers are. The peer review process is applied to all submissions.

Research data

We support community best practices in the sharing and archiving of research data. We provide space for supplementary data for facilitating compliance with research funder and institution requirements to share data.

Publication frequency

Articles are published in two volumes per year in June and December.