Plagiarism and Data Fabrication 
Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. We define plagiarism as copying text, ideas, images, or data from another source, even from one's own work publications, without giving credit to the sources. To ensure the originality, all Submitted manuscripts are screened using plagiarism checkers, Turnitin, and the CrossRef similarity check.

Manuscripts indicated with a similarity index of more than 20% may be rejected. Data presented must be original and not inappropriately selected, manipulated, enhanced, or 
fabricated. This includes 1) Exclusion of data points to enhance the significance of conclusions, 2) Fabrication of data, and 3) Selection of results that support a particular conclusion at the expense of of contradictory data, and 4) deliberate selection of analysis tools or methods to support a particular conclusion (including p-hacking). We strongly recommend preregistration of methods and analysis.