JLPCS expects all participants in the publication process, including authors, reviewers, editors, editorial staff, guest editors, and the publisher, to uphold the principles of honesty, accountability, transparency, confidentiality, fairness, respect, and academic integrity.

The journal follows internationally recognized publication ethics principles and best practices, including guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and other relevant scholarly publishing standards where applicable.

JLPCS 要求作者、审稿人、编辑、编辑部工作人员、客座编辑和出版方共同遵守诚实、问责、透明、保密、公正、尊重和学术诚信原则。本刊参照 COPE、ICMJE 及相关国际出版伦理标准处理投稿、评审、出版和出版后问题。

Authors are responsible for the integrity, originality, accuracy, and transparency of their submitted work. By submitting a manuscript to JLPCS, authors confirm that the work is original, unpublished, not under consideration elsewhere, and approved by all listed authors.

Authors must ensure that:

• The manuscript is original and does not contain plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, or inappropriate reuse of previously published material;
• The manuscript is not simultaneously submitted to another journal, book, conference proceeding, or publication venue;
• All listed authors meet authorship criteria and have approved the submitted version;
• All contributors who do not meet authorship criteria are acknowledged appropriately where applicable;
• Data, legal materials, interview records, survey results, images, tables, figures, quotations, and references are accurate and verifiable;
• Ethics approval, informed consent, data protection, funding, conflict of interest, and AI-use statements are provided where applicable;
• Permissions have been obtained for third-party materials where required;
• Any significant error discovered after submission or publication is promptly reported to the editorial office.

作者须对稿件的原创性、准确性、完整性和伦理合规性承担主要责任，并确保所有作者同意投稿、署名和最终发表版本。

Editors are responsible for maintaining the quality, fairness, confidentiality, transparency, and integrity of the editorial process. Editorial decisions should be based on scholarly merit, journal scope, originality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, peer review reports, and relevance to the field.

• Editors should evaluate manuscripts without discrimination based on nationality, gender, ethnicity, religion, political view, institutional affiliation, seniority, or personal characteristics;
• Editors should protect the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and peer review materials;
• Editors should select reviewers based on expertise, independence, availability, and absence of known conflicts of interest;
• Editors should ensure that reviewer comments transmitted to authors are professional and relevant;
• Editors should act on ethical concerns, suspected misconduct, conflicts of interest, or research integrity issues when identified;
• Editors should recuse themselves from handling manuscripts where they have an actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest;
• Editors should preserve editorial independence from financial, commercial, political, institutional, or personal influence.

编辑应根据稿件学术质量、研究伦理、期刊范围和同行评议结果作出决定，并维护编辑过程的保密性、公正性和独立性。

Reviewers provide independent expert assessment to support editorial decision-making and to help authors improve manuscripts where revision is possible. Reviewers must follow the journal’s double-blind review, confidentiality, conflict of interest, and professional conduct requirements.

• Reviewers should accept review invitations only when they have relevant expertise and can complete the review in a timely manner;
• Reviewers must treat manuscripts, data, supplementary files, review invitations, reviewer reports, and editorial communications as confidential;
• Reviewers must not use unpublished manuscript content for personal, professional, financial, legal, political, or competitive advantage;
• Reviewers should not attempt to identify or contact authors in the double-blind review process;
• Reviewers must disclose conflicts of interest and decline the review where impartiality may be compromised;
• Review reports should be constructive, specific, evidence-based, respectful, and free from personal or discriminatory remarks;
• Reviewers should alert the editor confidentially if they identify possible misconduct, ethical concerns, duplicate publication, plagiarism, or data issues.

审稿人应独立、公正、保密和及时地完成评审，并提供具体、建设性和可执行的审稿意见。

The publisher and editorial office support the journal’s editorial independence, online publication infrastructure, peer review coordination, publication ethics procedures, metadata management, archiving, and correction or retraction processes where applicable.

• Maintain clear journal policies and make them publicly accessible;
• Support fair and confidential peer review administration;
• Ensure that APC payment, waiver requests, sponsorship, advertising, or institutional relationships do not influence editorial decisions;
• Support procedures for handling complaints, appeals, corrections, retractions, and expressions of concern;
• Protect the integrity of published records and metadata;
• Assist editors in responding to suspected misconduct or publication ethics concerns;
• Maintain accurate journal identity, ownership, contact, copyright, license, and access information.

出版方和编辑部应支持期刊透明度、编辑独立性、同行评议管理、出版伦理执行和已发表记录的完整性。

Authorship should accurately reflect substantial scholarly contribution to the work. All listed authors should have made a meaningful contribution to the conception, design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, drafting, revision, or approval of the manuscript.

JLPCS does not accept inappropriate authorship practices, including:

• Guest authorship, where a person is listed despite insufficient contribution;
• Gift authorship, where authorship is granted as courtesy, hierarchy, or exchange;
• Ghost authorship, where a substantial contributor is omitted;
• Coercive authorship, where authorship is imposed through authority or pressure;
• Unauthorized authorship changes after submission or acceptance.

作者署名应真实反映实际学术贡献。所有作者均应知情、同意投稿，并共同承担对稿件内容的责任。投稿后如需变更作者顺序、增加或删除作者，须向编辑部说明理由并取得所有相关作者书面确认。

JLPCS does not tolerate plagiarism, duplicate publication, redundant submission, excessive textual overlap, citation manipulation, or inappropriate reuse of previously published material.

Publication misconduct may include:

• Using another person’s words, ideas, data, images, figures, tables, legal analysis, or research findings without proper attribution;
• Submitting substantially the same manuscript to more than one publication venue at the same time;
• Publishing substantially overlapping work without transparent disclosure and appropriate citation;
• Reusing substantial parts of the author’s own previously published work without disclosure or citation;
• Manipulating citations to inflate citation counts or misrepresent scholarly context;
• Fabricating references or citing sources that do not support the claims made.

本刊对抄袭、一稿多投、重复发表、过度文本重合、不当自我重复使用、引用操纵和虚构参考文献采取严格处理立场。编辑部可在投稿、审稿、录用后或出版后任何阶段进行核查。

Authors must present data, evidence, legal materials, interview materials, survey results, experimental findings, images, figures, tables, and statistical results honestly and accurately.

• Data must not be fabricated, falsified, selectively omitted, or manipulated in a misleading way;
• Images, screenshots, figures, charts, and tables must not be altered in a way that misrepresents evidence;
• Statistical analyses, models, coding procedures, sampling strategies, and legal source selection should be described transparently;
• Where appropriate, authors should provide sufficient information for interpretation, verification, or replication;
• Confidential, personal, institutional, legal, or sensitive data must be handled in accordance with applicable ethical and legal requirements;
• Authors should retain research records and supporting materials for a reasonable period after publication, where legally and ethically permissible.

作者不得伪造、篡改、选择性隐瞒或误导性呈现数据和证据。涉及个人数据、敏感材料、机构资料、访谈记录或法律文件的研究，应遵守相关伦理和法律要求。

Research involving human participants, interviews, surveys, experiments, behavioral observation, psychological assessment, platform data, personal data, sensitive data, or institutional records should comply with applicable legal, ethical, institutional, and professional standards.

• Authors should provide ethics approval information where applicable;
• Authors should state how informed consent was obtained or explain why consent was not required;
• Participant privacy, anonymity, confidentiality, and welfare should be protected;
• Personal and sensitive data should be collected, stored, analyzed, and reported responsibly;
• Vulnerable participants or sensitive topics require special ethical consideration;
• Research involving online communities, digital platforms, public comments, or social media data should address privacy, consent, platform terms, and potential risk.

涉及人类受试者、访谈、问卷、实验、行为观察、心理测量、平台数据、个人信息或敏感资料的研究，应说明伦理审批、知情同意、隐私保护和数据安全措施。

Authors, reviewers, editors, and guest editors must disclose any actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest that may influence, or may reasonably be perceived to influence, the research, review, editorial decision, or publication process.

Conflicts may include:

• Financial, commercial, consulting, employment, legal, policy, or advocacy interests;
• Personal, supervisory, mentoring, institutional, or collaborative relationships;
• Academic competition, strong personal bias, or prior involvement in the manuscript;
• Funding, sponsorship, commissioned research, or organizational interests related to the topic;
• Political, ideological, or professional commitments that may affect impartial judgment.

所有资助来源、赞助、机构支持、商业关系和可能影响研究或出版过程的利益冲突均应如实披露。利益冲突披露本身不必然导致拒稿，但隐瞒相关信息可能构成出版伦理问题。

Authors must disclose any substantive use of generative AI tools in preparing a manuscript, including language editing, translation support, coding assistance, literature organization, image generation, drafting support, or data processing assistance.

• Generative AI tools may not be listed as authors;
• Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, references, evidence, and ethical compliance of the manuscript;
• AI tools must not be used to fabricate data, references, legal materials, images, interviews, survey results, statistical outputs, or research findings;
• Confidential manuscript or peer review materials must not be uploaded to external AI tools in ways that compromise confidentiality or data protection;
• Where AI tools are used, authors should disclose the tool name, purpose, and scope of use in the manuscript or declaration file.

生成式人工智能工具不得作为作者。作者须对 AI 辅助内容进行核查，并对稿件内容、引用、数据、图表、结论和伦理合规承担全部责任。

JLPCS uses double-blind peer review for eligible scholarly manuscripts. Peer review materials are confidential and should be used only for editorial evaluation.

• Authors should submit anonymized manuscripts and should not attempt to influence or identify reviewers;
• Reviewers should not attempt to identify authors or contact authors directly;
• Editors should manage reviewer selection fairly and avoid conflicts of interest;
• Review reports should be constructive, specific, professional, and evidence-based;
• Peer review manipulation, fabricated reviewer identities, fake reviewer reports, coercive citation, or undisclosed conflicts are not acceptable;
• Reviewer recommendations are advisory; final editorial decisions rest with the responsible editor or editorial office.

双盲同行评议过程应保持独立、保密和公正。任何操纵同行评议、伪造审稿人身份、虚假审稿意见或强制引用行为均不被接受。

JLPCS is committed to maintaining the integrity of the published scholarly record. If significant errors, ethical concerns, or research integrity issues are identified after publication, the journal may issue a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other appropriate notice.

Post-publication actions may be considered when:

• A published article contains significant factual, analytical, statistical, legal, or production errors;
• There is evidence of plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication, falsification, image manipulation, or peer review manipulation;
• Ethics approval, informed consent, data rights, permissions, or conflicts of interest were misrepresented or omitted;
• The reliability of the article is seriously questioned but the investigation is not yet complete;
• Authorship, copyright, third-party materials, or legal issues require correction or clarification.

更正、撤稿和关注声明应以保护学术记录完整性为目的，而非惩罚作者。相关通知应尽量清楚说明原因，并与原文建立可识别链接。

JLPCS considers complaints, appeals, and misconduct allegations in a fair, confidential, evidence-based, and timely manner. Complaints or appeals should be submitted to the editorial office with sufficient information for assessment.

A complaint or appeal should normally include:

• Manuscript title, article title, DOI, or submission ID where available;
• Names and contact details of the complainant or appellant;
• A clear description of the issue;
• Relevant evidence, documents, correspondence, or publication details;
• The requested action or outcome, where appropriate.

投诉或申诉应基于事实和证据。编辑部可维持原决定、重新评估、邀请额外专家意见、要求作者说明、发布更正或采取其他适当措施。

JLPCS does not charge a submission fee or peer review fee. The Article Processing Charge applies only after a manuscript has been formally accepted for publication.

• APC payment status does not influence editorial screening, peer review, reviewer selection, or acceptance decisions;
• Waiver requests are considered separately from editorial decision-making;
• Institutional affiliation, author identity, nationality, seniority, funding source, or financial status must not affect editorial judgment;
• Any sponsorship, partnership, advertising, or revenue source must not compromise editorial independence.

投稿费、审稿费和 APC 事项不得影响编辑判断。录用决定应仅基于稿件学术质量、伦理合规、同行评议和期刊范围适配性。

Questions about publication ethics, research integrity, authorship, conflicts of interest, corrections, retractions, complaints, or appeals may be directed to the JLPCS Editorial Office.

有关出版伦理、研究诚信、作者署名、利益冲突、更正、撤稿、投诉或申诉的问题，可联系 JLPCS 编辑部。

Email: [email protected]