Instructions for Authors
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the conference topics are solicited. Full paper and all submissions deadline is due on October 10, 2024. These papers will undergo an academic review process. Full paper manuscripts must be in English. All papers are blind reviewed and will be checked by Turnitin.
Paper Format
All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. No page limits. Each submitted paper must conform to the required format and submission guidelines. Submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance and originality of the work and to their ability to generate discussions between the participants of the conference.
Review Process
ICCMGRC1 welcomes the submission of papers with reference to the topics listed below:
- Cancer Research and Therapy
- Cancer Immunology
- Medical Genetic Research
All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least two experts in the field, based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.
Authorship
Every listed author must take responsibility for the entire content of a paper. Note that changes to the author list after the submission deadline is not allowed.
Publication
All submissions will be blind reviewed by the Scientific Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to conference topics of interest, originality, significance, and clarity.
Accepted papers will be published by the Scopus indexing journal (a special issue of Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention (APJCP) named “the First Conference for Cancer and Medical Genetic Research Special Issue”.
or in a special issue of Iraqi Journal for Cancer and Medical Genetic (IJCMG) for “the First International Conference of the Iraqi Center for Cancer and Medical Genetic Research Special Issue”.
According to the authors choice. The reviewe process at these journal will decided the acceptance or rejection of the manuscrpit at these journals.
ICCMGR1 Policy and Conditions
The review process is “double blind” – identification of both authors and referees is removed from all documentation. The review of papers must gives conference participants and other readers confidence in the quality of the papers specified as “refereed” in the conference publications.
The editors of the conference publications are committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards for all parties involved in the act of publishing in a peer-reviewed proceeding: the author, the editor of the proceeding, the peer reviewer and the publisher.
Our publishing ethics, both internally and externally, are based on- and adhere to- the Committee on Publication Ethics’s (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Proceeding Editors and Conduct for Proceeding Publishers. In order to ensure the outcome of providing our readers with a high-quality academic proceeding of, the Proceeding is guided by the following principles:-
Editor Responsibilities
Accountability: The editors of a peer-reviewed proceeding are accountable and responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the proceeding should be published. The editor may be guided by the policies of the conference publication editorial board and constrained by legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers when making this decision.
Fair play: An editor should evaluate manuscripts for those intellectual content regardless of race, gender, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality: The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
Author Responsibilities
Reporting standards: Authors should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation. Authors should describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others.
Originality, plagiarism and acknowledgement of sources: Authors should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarized, and has not been published elsewhere – fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. Should an author used the work and/or words of others, then his citation and his quotation should be duly and appropriately.
Data Access and Retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
Ethics: Authors should only submit papers only on work that has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and that complies with all relevant legislation.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication: generally, An author should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one publication concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior will not be considered.
Fundamental errors in published works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the proceeding editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to rectify or correct the paper.