Ethical Guidelines

All peer reviewers must follow these ethical guidelines for Foundation University Journal of Dentistry articles in review:

• Reviewers must give unbiased consideration to each manuscript submitted. They should judge each on its merits, without regard to race, religion, nationality, sex, seniority, or institutional affiliation of the author(s).
• Reviewers must declare any conflict of interest before agreeing to review a manuscript. This includes any relationship with the author that may bias their review.
• Reviewers must keep the peer review process confidential. They must not share information or correspondence about a manuscript with anyone outside of the peer-review process.
• Reviewers should provide a constructive, comprehensive, evidenced, and appropriately substantial peer review report.
• Reviewers must avoid making statements in their report which might be construed as impugning any person’s reputation.
• Reviewers should make all reasonable efforts to submit their reports and recommendation on time. They should inform the editor if this is not possible.
• Reviewers should call to the journal editor’s attention any significant similarity between the manuscript under consideration and any published paper or submitted manuscripts of which they are aware.

Foundation University Journal of Dentistry recommends that reviewers also adhere to the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers.