Copyright Notice

Copyright Notice

This notice defines the formal copyright, licensing, and reuse terms for all scholarly content published in the Journal of Translational Research (JTR) , ensuring legal transparency and full compliance with international open-access best practices.

1. Copyright Ownership
Authors retain the copyright of their original research and scholarly contributions. By submitting to and publishing with JTR, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive, irrevocable license to publish, reproduce, distribute, and archive the definitive version of the work in all formats and media under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

2. Open Access Licensing
To maximize the dissemination and application of translational research, each article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This license grants any user the worldwide, royalty-free right to:

  • Share – copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

  • Adapt – remix, transform, translate, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial and educational uses.

These permissions are granted subject to one condition: proper attribution. Users must:

  • Credit the author(s) and cite Journal of Translational Research (JTR) as the original source of publication.

  • Provide a hyperlink to the CC BY 4.0 license.

  • Clearly indicate if the original work has been modified.

3. Rights and Responsibilities

  • Author Rights and Self-Archiving: Authors are expressly permitted and encouraged to deposit the final published PDF (version of record) in institutional repositories, subject repositories, preprint servers, personal websites, and academic social networks including ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/) and Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/). Authors may reuse their own figures, tables, datasets, and text in future publications, grant applications, patents, presentations, clinical protocols, or teaching materials without obtaining further permission, provided the original JTR publication is appropriately cited.

  • Third-Party Content: Authors are solely responsible for obtaining written permission from the copyright holder for any third-party material (e.g., histological images, molecular structures, adapted figures, extended quotations, proprietary assays, patient photographs) included in their manuscript. Proof of permission must be provided to the editorial office upon request.

  • Publisher Archiving and Preservation: JTR ensures the long-term preservation and perpetual accessibility of all published content through participation in trusted digital preservation networks. These include:

These systems create distributed archives among participating libraries worldwide, guaranteeing that all content remains permanently available to the scientific and medical community even in the event the journal ceases publication.

4. Ethical Standards and Scholarly Integrity

Authors must confirm that their submission is original, has not been published elsewhere, and does not infringe upon any third-party copyright, intellectual property rights, or patient confidentiality requirements. JTR adheres to the principles, policies, and flowcharts of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) : https://publicationethics.org. Any allegations of plagiarism, copyright infringement, data fabrication, image manipulation, ethical approval violations, or other misconduct will be investigated promptly and thoroughly in accordance with COPE guidelines.

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