This Statement is based on the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China, Opinions on Further Promoting Scientist’s Spirit and Strengthening the Construction of Study Style, Dishonesty in Science and Technology Research, Opinions on Further Strengthening the Promotion of Research Integrity, and Opinions on Strengthening the Ethics and Governance in Science and Technology issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council; and Code of Ethics for Researchers issued by China Association for Science and Technology (CAST). AIScholar takes academic ethics seriously and follows the principles of “integrity, lawfulness, transparency, and tech for good” as its guidelines, and benefits researchers by providing them with high-quality services via the Internet.

All relevant parties (including authors, clients, distributors, and content service providers) should follow the above principles. If they are found to have violated academic ethics constituting academic misconduct, AIScholar will terminate the cooperation and pursue legal actions.

Integrity

The principle of integrity is the most fundamental requirement. AIScholar always takes the publication ethics seriously and does not provide, promote or participate in any academic misconduct-related activities.

Lawfulness

The principle of lawfulness is to guarantee researchers’ rights to carry out academic activities. All parties should consciously comply with the Constitution and resist academic misconduct.

Transparency

Products and services we provided are open and transparent so that researchers have easy and quick access to the information they need.

Tech for Good

AIScholar refuses to provide services to clients who have violated publication ethics and related subjects responsible for breach of trust in scientific research.

For AIS users, please note:

1. Researchers should adhere to scientific truth, respect the laws of science, be honest, be innovative, abide by professional ethics, and uphold integrity.

2. Academic activities should aim to develop science and technology; to prosper academic thought; to promote economic progress; to cultivate scientific talents; to popularize scientific and technological knowledge; and to strengthen our nation.

3. Academic research should be conducted by searching relevant literature or understanding relevant research results, and when citing others’ arguments in published papers or other forms of reporting scientific research results, they must respect intellectual property rights and mark them truthfully. When citing the results of others in academic works, the source must be indicated; the quoted part must not constitute the main or substantial part of the cited person's work; when citing the results of third parties from the works of others, an explanation must be given; when referring to but not citing the results of others, or being inspired by the results of others but not directly using the results of others, an explanation should also be given and references listed.

4. Respect for persons (including human subjects and non-human subjects). Research involving human subjects leads to consideration of the following requirements: informed consent, the protection of personal information, and the protection of legitimate interests of subjects.

5. Research works should be accurate and objective. It is the obligation of each author to provide prompt retractions or corrections of errors in published works.

6. When working with others, authors should always keep to any agreements and act sincerely. Each individual author should be open-minded to share the research results with the academic community, including acceptance of academic criticism.

7. Research results (e.g., data, findings) should disclosed and represented accurately in the paper.

8. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work.

9. Copyright is held by professionals who have made substantial contributions to the results of the research. Those who have only generally managed or supported the research project are not entitled to copyright.

10. Collaborative work should be signed in the order of contribution to the research (unless there is a convention or agreement on attribution). The signatory shall be responsible for the part of the work to which he/she has contributed and shall review and sign the work before publication. Signatures on scholarly work should be genuine and the signatory should assume academic and legal responsibility for that work. All named authors shall be responsible for their own part of the work, with the first named author and corresponding author being responsible for the whole paper or book. If the student is the first author and the supervisor is a co-author, the supervisor shall be primarily responsible for the research.

11. New research results should not be released to the media or the public before being published in academic journals or academic conferences (except where there are contractual restrictions).

12. Scientific research activities should not work for commercial use. The existence of direct, indirect or potential interests in scientific research activities should be treated correctly.

13. Researchers are obligated to disseminate scientific ideas and methods to the public. We resist the fabrication of scientific and technological events that do not correspond to the facts, along with the speculation in the news on such events.

14. We resist all research activities that are contrary to scientific ethics. If the work is found to be flawed or harmful, it should be suspended or adjusted, or even terminated, and the competent authority for the research should be informed.

15. We promote teaching the code of academic ethics when training of postgraduate students and young researchers. The selection of academic leaders and relevant scientific and technological talents shall take academic ethics as one of the important bases.

16. When presenting and evaluating one’s own or others’ achievements, one should follow the principles of objectivity, impartiality and accuracy, and make comprehensive analyses, evaluations and arguments on the basis of a full grasp of domestic and foreign materials and data.

17. All types of funded projects should be marked in accordance with the requirements of the department issuing the project, and should treat the research work of various scientific research projects in a serious manner and complete the tasks specified in the contract on time.

18. Researchers should abide by other ethical codes recognized by the academic community.

Acts that can be deemed as a violation of academic integrity include but are not limited to:

1. Deliberately make misrepresentations, fabricate data or results, destroy the integrity of original data, and tamper with experimental records and images; make false claims in the project application, achievement declaration, job seeking, and promotion application, and provide fake certificates of awards, paper publication, and literature citation, etc.

2. Infringe or damage the copyright of others, deliberately omit reference to other’s publications, plagiarize or tamper with the content of other’s works; unauthorizedly use reviewed manuscripts or information in funding applications to publish or disclose other’s unpublished works or research projects or for their own use; attribute achievements to those who have not contributed to the research while excluding those who have made substantial contributions from the list of authors, and overstep or unreasonably claim the status of authorship or co-authorship.

3. Practice duplicate submission or overlaps substantially with one already published, without clear, visible reference to the previous publication.

4. Interfere with and obstruct other’s research activities in dishonest ways, including deliberately destroying or withholding instruments, equipment, documents, and other indispensable scientific research-related property; willfully delaying the review and evaluation of other’s projects or achievements or making unprovable judgments; erecting obstacles to the review of competitive projects or achievements.

5. Participate in or conspire with others to conceal academic misdeeds, including participating in other’s academic fraud practices, helping conceal other’s misconduct, failing to perform the duty of supervision, and retaliating against complainants.

6. Participate in the review or copywriting work unrelated to one’s major; make an evaluation that violates the principles of objectivity, accuracy, and impartiality out of direct, indirect, or potential conflicts of interest in all kinds of project evaluation, institutional evaluation, publication or research report review, and award evaluation; bypass the evaluation organization and directly contact with the evaluation object, and even receive gifts from the target of evaluation.

7. Participate in commercial advertising in the name of academic groups and experts.

8. Commit other acts of fraud, plagiarism, and violations of the conventions of the scientific community in scientific research and academic activities.