Journal of Gastric Surgery is dedicated to being a peer-reviewed, open-access journal focused on publishing original articles in the area of stomach diseases, oncology and bariatric surgery. JGS follows the best practices and ethical standards set forth by the following organizations.

 

 

 

Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public.

Journal of Gastric Surgery follows the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC. This license allows anyone to download works, build upon the material, and share them with others for non-commercial purposes as long as they credit the senior author, Journal of Gastric Surgery.

 

 

Crossmark is a multi-publisher initiative from Crossref to provide a standard way for readers to locate the current version of a piece of content. By applying the Crossmark logo JGS is committing to maintaining the content it publishes and to alerting readers to changes if and when they occur. Clicking on the Crossmark logo will tell you the current status of a document and may also give you additional publication record information about the document.

Please visit Journal of Gastric Surgery's Crossmark Policy page for more information.

 

 

DOAJ collaborated with other organizations in an effort to identify principles of transparency and best practice for scholarly publications and to clarify that these principles form part of the criteria on which membership applications will be evaluated.
These criteria are largely derived from those developed by the Directory of Open Access Journals. Note that additional membership criteria may also be used by each of the scholarly organizations. The organizations will not share information about applications received. We do not intend to develop or publish a list of publishers or journals that failed to demonstrate they met the criteria for transparency and best practice.

 

 

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) was established in 1997 by a small group of journal editors in the UK but now has over 12,000 members worldwide from all academic fields. Membership is open to editors of academic journals and others interested in publication ethics. 

COPE provides advice to editors and publishers on all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular, how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct. It also provides a forum for its members to discuss individual cases. COPE does not investigate individual cases but encourages editors to ensure that cases are investigated by the appropriate authorities (usually a research institution or employer). All COPE members are expected to follow the Code of Conduct for Journal Editors.

 

 

The ICMJE is a working group of general medical journal editors whose participants meet annually and fund their own work on the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. The ICMJE invites comments on this document and suggestions for agenda items.