About the Journal
PUBLISHER
The Lung Center of the Philippines Scientific Proceedings is published by the Lung Center of the Philippines.
FOCUS, SCOPE, AND TARGET AUDIENCE
The journal intends to share local relevant scientific findings in the field of respiratory medicine through publication of high quality original clinical investigations, epidemiological studies, case reports, review articles, evaluations of diagnostic and surgical techniques, and the latest updates on management guidelines.
The journal's target audience are clinicians, surgeons, specialists, laboratorians, scientists, and researchers working on pulmonary medicine.
EDITORIAL PROCESS
Submissions that have passed initial check for general manuscript requirements shall be screened by the Editorial Board if these shall proceed to peer review. The Scientific
Proceedings implements a double-blind peer review policy after which the Editor-in-Chief shall make a final deliberation on article inclusion in each issue. For manuscripts that undergo peer review, authors can expect an initial decision within sixty (60) days or less. There may be instances when final decisions can take longer, in which case, the secretariat shall inform the authors. Editorial decisions may be one of the following:
- Acceptance without further revision
- Acceptance with minor revisions required
- Acceptance with major revisions required
- Manuscript rejection.
All accepted manuscripts are subject to formatting and edits to conform with the journal's style guide and branding.
EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE
The Editorial Board of the Lung Center of the Philippines Scientific Proceedings is responsible for all editorial decisions on the journal's scientific content.
PUBLICATION FREQUENCY
The Lung Center of the Philippines Scientific Proceedings is published by the Lung Center of the Philippines two times a year every June and December.
OPEN ACCESS
This publication is 100% OPEN ACCESS, providing immediate access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a global exchange of knowledge.
Article Processing, Review, and Subscription Fees
The Lung Center of the Philippines Scientific Proceedings does not charge any subscription, review, or manuscript processing fees.
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE
The Lung Center of the Philippines Scientific Proceedings is licensed under a Creative Commons – Attribution-
Non-Commercial 4.0 International License, which allows sharing, copying, and redistributing the material in any medium or format, under strict terms of giving appropriate credit to the authors and this journal, and use for non-commercial purposes.
COPYRIGHT
The authors shall transfer all copyright to the Scientific Proceedings through a Publisher Agreement included in the Author Form, however, they are entitled to proper attribution and credit for the published manuscript. They are likewise entitled to share the manuscript in the same manner permitted to third parties (under the journal's CC BY-NC 4.0 license). All rights granted under the Publisher Agreement shall revert to the author/s should the manuscript be withdrawn or is rejected, or if the published manuscript is retracted for any reason.
PUBLICATION ETHICS
Editor and Reviewer Obligations
The Editorial Board shall be guided accordingly by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines when dealing with publication ethics and malpractice issues. All editors and reviewers are bound by confidentiality and non-disclosure of the manuscripts undergoing review and deliberation, and are also obliged to declare any conflicts of interest with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the submitted manuscripts, in order to keep the editorial process objective and unbiased. If there are conflicts of interest, the editors and/or reviewers should excuse themselves from the editorial process.
Author Obligations
All authors should ensure that they have written and submitted original work. When the authors use or reference other materials, sources should be cited appropriately
following the journal's instructions. Authors should not submit the same manuscript concurrently to more than one journal. Plagiarized works and duplicate submissions shall be promptly rejected. All authors shall be required to accomplish and submit the Scientific Proceedings Author Form which includes certification of fulfillment of authorship criteria for all authors listed, transfer of copyright, and declaration of
conformity to ethical standards for experiments on human/animal subjects and approval by the appropriate ethics committee. For case reports/case series, the authors shall submit the written/informed consent for publication from the involved patient/subject. In case the involved subject/s and/or relative/guardian can no longer be contacted after all means have been undertaken by the author, the author should state so in his declaration.
ARTICLE WITHDRAWALS
Manuscripts may be withdrawn by the author until the point when the article has not yet been included in the galley of the full issue and only upon the formal written request of the author stating the reason for the withdrawal. Should there be a need to correct the article of record as part of a published issue, the article shall be retracted and the corrected version shall be so uploaded.
RETRACTIONS
Retraction is indicated when there are violations of publication ethics, such as multiple submissions, plagiarism, falsification of data, or when there is a need to correct
major or critical errors in the original published article. "Major or critical errors" refer to those which invalidate the article's results and conclusions. A retraction notice signed by all authors shall be published in the subsequent issue. The article shall remain in the database and published issue but a notation shall be placed indicating that the article has been retracted. Each page of the retracted article shall be
edited to bear the watermark: "ARTICLE RETRACTED" and replace the original version uploaded in online platform.
CORRECTIONS
Errors that do not change or invalidate the article's results and conclusions shall undergo correction. If there are items for correction in a published manuscript, the authors shall submit a formal letter to the Scientific Proceedings. For all corrections, a correction notice/erratum shall be published in the subsequent issue of the journal. The corrected article version shall include details of the changes from the original
version and the dates on which the changes were made.
All prior versions of the article shall be archived by the Lung Center of the Philippines Scientific Proceedings Secretariat with a notation that there is a corrected version. Citations shall be ascribed to the corrected version.
APPEALS, COMPLAINTS AND DISPUTES
The Lung Center of the Philippines Scientific Proceedings shall entertain appeals, complaints, or disputes regarding editorial decisions. These should be communicated formally to the Editor-in-Chief.
The editorial board shall be guided accordingly by the ICMJE as well as guidelines set forth by the Committee on Publication Ethics in dealing with these issues.
DISCLAIMER
All statements and opinions expressed in the articles and communications herein are those of the author/s and not necessarily those of the editor/s or the publisher. The editors of Lung Center of the Philippines Scientific Proceedings and the Lung Center of the Philippines assume no responsibility for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of product liability or negligence, or which otherwise arise from use or operation of any methods, products, instructions, or ideas cited or discussed in any article published. Although all advertising materials are expected to conform to ethical standards, the appearance of advertising in the journal does not constitute a guarantee or endorsement by the editors and/or the publisher of the quality or value of such product, or the claims made for it by its manufacturer.
ADVERTISEMENTS AND PROMOTIONS
Although all advertising materials are exposed to conform to ethical (medical) standards, the appearance of advertising in this journal does not constitute a guarantee or endorsement by the publisher of the quality or value of such product or the claims made for it by its manufacturer. The Lung Center of the Philippines Scientific Proceedings reserves the right to approve or decline for publication all advertisements submitted, to modify advertisements submitted to bring them in conformity with the journal's style, to conspicuously place the term "Advertisement" on the submitted material, to change/update its advertisement rates at any time. All payment should be made within thirty (30) days on the date of invoice. All advertising inquiries may be addressed to:
The Editor-in-Chief, Lung Center of the Philippines Scientific Proceedings, Lung Center of the Philippines, e-mail address: scientificproceedings@lcp.gov.ph.
