Ethical Guidelines

1. Authorship and Contribution
Criteria for Authorship: All authors listed on a manuscript must have significantly contributed to the work, including the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the research.
Acknowledgement of Contributors: Individuals who contributed to the work but did not meet the authorship criteria should be acknowledged in the manuscript.
Changes to Authorship: Any changes to the list of authors after submission must be approved by all authors, including those being added or removed.

2. Conflict of Interest
Declaration: Authors must disclose any financial or personal relationships that could influence their work. This includes funding sources, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, and paid expert testimony.
Transparency: Conflict of interest statements will be published with the manuscript.

3. Research Ethics
Human and Animal Rights: Research involving human participants must comply with the Declaration of Helsinki, and research involving animals must follow institutional and national guidelines.
Informed Consent: Authors must ensure that informed consent was obtained from all human participants and that appropriate approvals were obtained from ethics committees or institutional review boards.

4. Data and Reproducibility
Data Availability: Authors must make their data available upon request and provide detailed methods for replicating the study.
Data Fabrication and Falsification: Any fabrication or manipulation of data is considered unethical and unacceptable.

5. Plagiarism and Duplicate Publication
Originality: All submitted manuscripts must be original work and not under consideration or published elsewhere.
Plagiarism Detection: Dental Research Today uses plagiarism detection software to screen manuscripts. Any detected plagiarism will lead to the rejection of the manuscript.