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Open access policy: - Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases (AJIED) provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All articles published in Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases (AJIED) are made immediately available worldwide under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which allows restricted reuse of the material with proper attribution (Users have the right to read, download, copy, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles provided the original work is properly cited). AJIED policy is by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-recommendations). Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases (AJIED) defines open access by the following conditions:
Copyright and Publication Rights - Authors retain the copyrights and transfer all the commercial rights to the publisher (Zagazig University). - Authors have the right to share their article according to the [Personal Use rights]so long as it contains the end user license and the DOI link to the version of record to the journal, retain knowledgeable property rights (including research data), proper designation and acknowledgment for the published work. Personal use rights: Authors can use their articles, in full or in part, for scholarly, non-commercial purposes such as: • Authors may use this material in their instructional activities, including distribution of printed or electronic copies. • Distribute copies to research colleagues for personal use (but not for commercial purposes). • Inclusion in thesis or dissertation (not for commercial publication). Authorship of the paper: - Authorship should be restricted to those who contributed significantly to the conception, design, implementation, or analysis of the submitted study. Transparency about the contributions of authors is required. All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following: (1) The conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data (2) Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content (3) Final approval of the version to be submitted. All contributions that do not meet the authorship should be acknowledged in the acknowledgment section - It is highly advisable that authors review the author group, corresponding author, and author order before submitting. - Adding and/or deleting authors during the revision process is typically not permitted, although in some instances it may be necessary. Reasons for changes in authorship should be detailed. Changes to authorship cannot be made once a manuscript has been accepted. Compliance with Ethical Standards - To ensure that accepted principles of ethical and professional conduct have been followed, authors should include information regarding sources of funding, potential conflicts of interest (financial or non-financial), and acknowledgment of sources. - Statements of compliance are required if the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that has any unusual hazards inherent in their use, or if it involves the use of animal or human subjects. - Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which should be documented in the paper. Conflict of interest - Conflict of interest for a given manuscript exists when a participant in the peer review and publication process - author, reviewer, and editor has ties to activities that could inappropriately influence his or her judgment, whether or not judgment is in fact affected. Financial relationships with industry (for example, through employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria expert testimony) either directly or through immediate family, are usually considered to be the most important conflicts of interest. However, conflicts can occur for other reasons, such as personal relationships, academic competition, and intellectual passion. - Authors should be responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and other conflicts of interest that might bias their work. They should acknowledge in the manuscript all financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections to the work. Originality and plagiarism: - The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works. - If the authors have used the work and/or words of others this has been appropriately cited or quoted. - To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service. All new submissions to the Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases (AJIED) are automatically screened using Crossref Similarity Check (powered by iThenticate) to screen all new manuscripts for plagiarism within the editorial system. Editors may also choose to run a similarity report at any other stage during the peer review process or post-publication. Authors and researchers can also use iThenticate to screen their work before submission by visiting http://www.ithenticate.com/. Multiple, redundant, or concurrent publications: - The manuscript should not be submitted to other journals for simultaneous consideration. - An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal. - Prior publication in the form of an abstract or publication as an academic thesis is allowed. Data access and retention: - Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review. Fundamental errors: - Authors must correct mistakes once they discover a significant error in their published article. - The author(s) is/are requested to contact the journal and explain in what sense the error is impacting the article. - A decision on how to correct the literature will depend on the nature of the error. This may be a correction or retraction. (Please refer to our erratum policy described in the author guidelines). Article withdrawal and retraction: - If there is a valid concern of misbehavior, the Journal contacts the author(s) concerned under their given e-mail address and is allowed to address the issue. Depending on the situation, this may result in the Journal’s implementation of the following measures, including, but not limited to: • If the manuscript is still under consideration, it may be rejected and returned to the author. • If the article has already been published online, depending on the nature and severity of the infraction: - An erratum/correction may be applied (Please refer to our policy described in the author guidelines) - An expression of concern may be placed with the article, or in severe cases retraction of the article may occur. The reason will be given in the published erratum, expression of concern, or retraction note. Editors of the Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases (AJIED) follow the ICMJE's Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. (see: https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/about-the-recommendations/purpose-of-the-recommendations.html). Our Editors follow guidelines and best practices published by professional organizations, including Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals from ICMJE (www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf) and Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (https://doaj.org/bestpractice). Our Editors are familiar with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) “Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors” (see: https://publicationethics.org/about/our-organisation). Editors encourage the use of reporting guidelines for all study designs such as the PRISMA for systematic review, the CONSORT statement for randomized, controlled trials and the STROBE statement for observational studies, CARE for case reports (see Equator network at: https://www.equator-network.org/) Editorial Freedom Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases (AJIED) follows the World Association of Medical Ethics (WAME) (available at: https://wame.org/editorial-independence). Editorial freedom is defined as editors holding full responsibility for editorial decisions on individual manuscripts. Editors base their editorial decisions on the transparency, validity, and quality of all manuscripts, and our Editors are free to express critical but responsible views about all aspects of medicine without fear of forfeit. Our Editors are supported by the Editorial board that assists the Editor with editorial policy. Confidentiality All manuscripts submitted to the Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases (AJIED) are privileged communications. The Journal’s Editorial Board, and all editorial and publication staff, are asked to keep all information about a submitted manuscript confidential, sharing it only with those involved in the peer review, and publication processes. Peer review and timeliness Our Editors are responsible for selecting expert reviewers within the topic of each submitted manuscript from the journal database or suggested by JANE or Publons (WOS). Editors are also responsible for ensuring that reviewer comments are properly assessed and interpreted with declared conflicts of interest. Editors will do all they can to ensure the timely processing of manuscripts as per the peer review policy (see: https://mid.journals.ekb.eg/journal/process). This journal follows a Double-blind peer review of submitted articles. Manuscripts submitted by a journal’s editorial team member are independently peer-reviewed and the member will have no role in the peer review process or publication decision for his work. Competing interests The Journal’s Editors are responsible to making all editorial decisions based on the relevance of a manuscript to the journal and on the manuscript’s originality, quality, and transparency. They agree to ensure that those decisions will not be influenced by commercial interests or conflicts of Interest. Ethical approval Our Editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the following requirements: Research work involving human participants, human material, or human data should be performed by the Declaration of Helsinki (See: https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/). Informed consent and ethics committee/IRB approval: A paper describing experimental work in humans must: (1) indicate that informed consent has been obtained from patients where appropriate, (2) include a statement that the responsible ethics committee (e.g: Institutional Review Board, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University) has approved. Do not use patients’ names, initials or hospital numbers, especially in illustrative material. All animal experiments should comply with the ARRIVE guidelines (see: https://arriveguidelines.org/), and should be carried out by the U.K. Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986 and associated guidelines, EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments (see: https://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/legislation_en.htm). Dealing with possible misconduct Our Editors are responsible for acting if they suspect misconduct to both published and unpublished manuscripts. Editors will reject papers with raised concerns about possible misconduct and will be ethically obliged to pursue alleged cases. Editors will seek a response from authors suspected of misconduct. If they are not satisfied with the response, they will raise their concerns to the relevant employers, or institution, or appropriate body. - Global Impact Factor http://globalimpactfactor.com/afro-egyptian-journal-of-infectious-and-endemic-disease/ - US National Library of Medicine (NLM) : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/101614559 - African Index Medicus (WHO): http://indexmedicus.afro.who.int/Journals/indexj.html, sample papers available at: https://indexmedicus.afro.who.int/aim/opac_css/index.php?lvl=coll_see&id=3422 - Google Scholar - Crossref: DOI - Directory for open access journals (DOAJ): https://doaj.org/toc/2090-7184?source= Archiving The journal is hosted by the Egyptian Knowledge Bank. Each article is given a specific DOI. 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