Authors contributing to SIPLR agree to publish their articles under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, for any purpose, even commercially, under the condition that appropriate credit is given, that a link to the license is provided, and that you indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. Authors retain copyright of their work.
The Stockholm Intellectual Property Law Review (SIPLR) Editorial Board follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (CОРЕ) principles and recommendations in aspects of authorship and contributorship.
SIPLR has the ambition to be a publication platform for research from different disciplines in the field of intellectual property rights. We acknowledge thus that different disciplines might have different norms of who is listed as an author. In case of co-authorship, we expect all authors to be in agreement that the authors listed would be considered authors according to disciplinary norms, and that no authors who would reasonably be listed are excluded. We also expect all listed authors to take responsibility for the integrity of the work. In the event of a dispute or change request (including author order or designation) at any stage of the publishing process, we will be guided by the relevant COPE flowchart, guidance, or case precedents in deciding the appropriate action(s). If these changes raise concerns about the broader integrity of the work, further investigation may follow, leading to the decision to not publish the article or to retract publication.
The principles according to which authorship is to be determined:
Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; and/or
Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and/or
Final approval of the version to be published; and
Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work and to ensure that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Corresponding authors
In case of co-authorship the SIPLR Editorial Board will require information on who will constitute the corresponding author:
The corresponding author has the following responsibilities:
Contributorship
Contribution that constitutes ‘authorship’ will include the following four elements:
Contributors who meet fewer than all 4 of the above criteria for authorship should not be listed as authors, but they should be acknowledged. We encourage authors to list anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship in an Acknowledgments section in their publication with permission, for example to recognise the contributions of anyone who provided research or writing assistance.
Disputes related to authorship
The SIPLR Editorial Board will apply COPE guidelines on matters of authorship and authorship disputes, and our Editorial Board will proceed in the processing of such disputes as well as in the decisions taken on the basis of COPE flowcharts, guidelines and cases discussed on the COPE webpage.
The SIPLR Editorial Board develops trusting relationships with authors based on their acceptance of the publication ethics standards, Publishing and Editorial policy, and Instructions for authors. Moreover, the author must demonstrate only his/her own unique ideas and research results in his/her article, should not submit the paper to several journals at once, should not borrow other authors’ ideas while preparing the research, and should not use reviewers to improve the quality of the article to submit it to another journal.
We follow the Guidelines on Good Publication Practice as reported in COPE.
SIPLR policy requires that authors, when submitting a manuscript, reveal any conflict of interest, including financial interests or connections, direct or indirect, or any other situations that could raise questions of bias in the submission as a whole and any conclusions, implications, or opinions in the submission.
Disclosed potential conflicts of interest should include any relevant commercial or other source of funding for authors and any sponsoring or associated institutions, departments, or organizations.
Authors considering whether they should declare a conflict of interest should consider the following question: Is there anything that you have not disclosed that might cause doubt in the authenticity or impartialness of your submission if it became public knowledge after the publication?
As an integral part of the submission process, authors are required to provide confirmation that they either (1) have no conflicts of interest; (2) have conflicts of interest and provide details of such conflicts of interest; or (3) are unsure if they have conflicts of interest and provide details of such potential conflicts of interest. Such confirmation is required by or on behalf of all authors before manuscript reviewing begins.
Conflicts of interest can be addressed and may need to be addressed also in a statement within the submission and ultimately the published work itself.
If, after publication of a submission, a new conflict of interest arises or becomes known, we review the conflict of interest and determine the necessary course of action. The potential actions that will be taken will depend on the type of conflict and what we find in our review and include (1) retraction of a publication; (2) correction or amendment of the publication; (3) amendment to disclose conflicts; or (3) no action.
Any conflicts of interest editors may have at the time of joining the journal or at the time of reviewing a specific submission are also investigated and considered by SIPLR. If a conflict of interest is found at the time of an editor's joining, it will be considered whether the editor can join and if measures can be put in place to mitigate the conflict of interest. If they cannot, the editor will not be allowed to join. If an editor has a conflict of interest with a specific submission, such editor will refrain from reviewing and working on the substance of such submission. The decision will be made by the editor-in-chief.
All editions of SIPLR are peer reviewed and must follow the general guidelines for ethical editing stipulated by COPE.
All manuscripts submitted are initially assessed by an editor, who decides whether or not the article fits the scope of the journal and is suitable for peer review. Manuscripts are then sent to at least two peer reviewers. The journal uses a double-blind peer-review process. It is, however, possible for the peer reviewer to choose to disclose their name if they wish.
SIPLR ensures that journal teams receive editorial support, ethical guidance and undertake professional networking to follow best practice and to guarantee a high quality output.
Selection of reviewers
Reviewers are selected on the basis of proposals from the Scientific Board. Reviewers are senior researchers with a competence in the research field of the publication.
Number of peer reviewers per manuscript
SIPLR has a minimum of two reviewers per article. Articles are reviewed anonymously in order to maintain maximum impartiality.
Timeliness
Reviewers shall only accept articles that they are confident that they can dedicate appropriate time in reviewing. Thus, reviewers shall review and return manuscripts in a timely manner.
Conflicts of interest
Reviewers are expected to report conflicts of interest that they are aware of when they receive the manuscript.
Conducting a review
Reviewers shall review the submitted articles and propose appropriate amendments.
Reviews should be honest and objective. Reviewers should not be influenced by:
The origin of the manuscript.
Religious, political or cultural viewpoint of the author.
Gender, race, ethnicity or citizenry of the author.
Reviewers’ responsibilities
Reviewers shall provide unbiased and constructive written comments on the merits and scientific value of the work, as well as the documented basis for the reviewer’s opinion.
Manuscripts are confidential materials given to a reviewer in trust for the sole purpose of critical evaluation. Reviewers shall preserve the confidentiality of the review process: do not divulge, discuss with third parties, or share information about the document being reviewed. Details of the manuscript and the review process should remain confidential during and after the review process.
Reviewers shall ensure that the article cites all relevant work done by other scholars so that only accurate and verified information is published.
Reviewers shall ensure that the methods and analysis are detailed enough and well implemented to allow the reader to judge the scientific merit of the study design and be able to reproduce it.
Recommendations
All articles published in SIPLR go through the peer-review process and receive at least two reviews. The decision will be one of the following:
SIPLR takes all allegations of misconduct seriously (both pre-publication and post-publication). Allegations of misconduct can be related to misconduct in review, publication and research. Reports of alleged misconduct are submitted to the editor-in-chief. All allegations are investigated by the Editorial Board. Anyone subject to an allegation of misconduct will not be involved in the investigation process. However, the person alleged of misconduct is given an opportunity to provide a statement and information about the circumstances. In situations where the allegation is found to be true, the related article will not be published, or in cases where the article has been already published, the article will be deleted from the online journal.
SIPLR has measures in place to handle complaints against the journal, its staff, editorial board or the publisher.
We will abide by the following principles when investigating complaints and appeals:
Fairness: we will treat all parties involved in a fair way and will avoid potential conflicts of interest.
Confidentiality: we will not disclose information that is not of extreme importance for the resolution of the complaint.
Clarity: we will make all efforts to make all our communication clear.
Speed: we will endeavour to resolve complaints as rapidly as possible while still allowing reasonable time for the parties to respond.
Authors’ appeal
Authors can appeal a rejection by sending an email to the journal’s editorial office. The appeal must provide a detailed rationale, including point-by-point responses to the reviewers’ comments.
Retraction – amendments and corrections
The conditions of publication with persistent identifiers such as DOIs include that the object published is final and not changed without readers being clearly informed of such changes.
Articles published in the journal cannot therefore be changed without a) an erratum or b) a change notice being published and linked to the original article.
If a factual error in an article is discovered, this should be reported to the editor-in-chief, who decides on possible actions and possible corrections.
If only a small part of an article reports flawed data or content, this may be best rectified by a correction. Similarly, if only a small section of an article (eg, a few sentences in the discussion) is plagiarised, the SIPLR Editorial Board will require a correction (which could note that text was used without appropriate acknowledgement and cite the source) rather than the retraction of the entire article.
Retraction – what form should it take?
In case of retraction, a retraction notice on the specific article will be published. This will mention the reasons and basis for the retraction to enable readers of SIPLR to understand why the article is unreliable and will also specify who is retracting the article (on whose request) and how the matter came to the SIPLR’s attention (claimants may be named only when they have given permission).
Whenever possible, SIPLR editors will negotiate with authors and attempt to agree on a form of wording that is clear and informative to readers and acceptable to all parties. However, prolonged negotiations should not unreasonably delay retraction, and editors should publish retractions even if consensus cannot be reached. Retraction notices will be published in all versions of the journal (ie, print and/or online) and will include the authors and title of the retracted article in the retraction heading.
The retraction will appear on all online searches for the retracted publication. In extremely limited cases SIPLR editors may decide to remove an article from online publication, such as when the article is clearly defamatory, violates personal privacy, or is the subject of a court order.
The responsibility for retracting articles lies with the SIPLR Editorial Board.
Publications will be retracted as soon as possible after the SIPLR Editorial Board is convinced that the publication is seriously flawed, misleading, or falls into any of the categories described above. We will proceed with prompt retraction in order to minimise the number of researchers who cite the erroneous work, act on its findings, or draw incorrect conclusions, such as from ‘double counting’ redundant publications in meta-analyses or similar instances. However, if an allegation of misconduct related to a potential retraction results in a disciplinary hearing or institutional investigation, it may be appropriate to wait for the outcome before issuing a retraction (but an expression of concern may be published in the interim).
When the SIPLR Editorial Board has credible grounds to suspect misconduct, this will be brought to the attention of the authors’ institutions as early as possible, but the decision to correct or retract an article will be made by the Editorial Board and does not necessarily depend on an institutional finding of misconduct. The SIPLR Editorial Board will use the COPE guidelines, “Cooperation between research institutions and journals on research integrity cases” (https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2018.1.3) and the CLUE guidelines, “Cooperation and liaison between universities and editors (CLUE): Recommendations on best practice” (https://doi.org/10.1101/139170) ).
If necessary, a previously corrected article may be further corrected or a previously corrected article may be retracted following the outcome of an institutional investigation. When possible, the outcome of institutional investigations should be quoted from and cited in the notice, and any findings of misconduct should be appropriately attributed to the institution that made the finding.
Can authors dissociate themselves from a retracted publication?
If retraction is due to the actions of some, but not all, authors of a publication, the notice of retraction should mention this when possible. However, authorship entails some degree of joint responsibility for the integrity of the reported research, so it is not appropriate for authors’ names to be removed from a publication even if they were not directly culpable for the errors or actions that led to retraction.
Regarding ethical oversight, we rely on the СОРE definition, namely: “Ethical oversight should include, but not be limited to, policies on consent to publication, publication on vulnerable populations, ethical conduct of research using animals, ethical conduct of research using human subjects, treatment of confidential data, and business/marketing practices.” Based on this definition, the editorial staff of the journal works in accordance with ethical principles.
SIPLR’s policy regarding the monitoring of how ethical principles are observed is based on the mutual trust of the participants in the publication process and the expectation of mandatory observance of all ethical principles of the publication.
For ethical considerations that are not provided in this text, SIPLR follows the COPE guidelines in https://publicationethics.org/.
The journal's editors allow authors to upload earlier drafts of manuscripts/articles on the condition that authors agree to the following:
The journal's editors strongly recommend that authors submitting manuscripts register an "Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier" or ORCID.
This registration provides a unique and stable digital author identity that ensures that the article is attributed to the correct person and improves the searchability of all the author's publications. This helps to ensure that the author receives recognition for their work. As a person's ORCiD remains the same as long as the account exists, any name changes, change of employment, department affiliation or research field do not affect the searchability of previous publications. This facilitates correspondence between research colleagues.
The journal's editors encourage all authors to include ORCiD along with other author information when the manuscript is registered in the system. If the article is accepted, this will be published with the article.
As research funders' and universities' demands for open research data become increasingly common, some authors may be obliged to make their collected empirical material open and available to everyone.
In cases where this applies to the journal's authors, the journal's editors encourage that the material be made available according to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
The material thus made available must be linked to within the submitted manuscript under a special heading. Research data should then be made public when the article is published. Empirical material obtained from other researchers must be referenced in the same way as other scientific sources. For further questions about guidelines for handling open data and guidelines about how data should be handled and published, please contact your university.
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The journal's owner and the National Library of Sweden aim for the journal's archive to be transferred and made available via Publicera, and thus the archive will also be stored long-term on a secure and central server at the National Library of Sweden.
In the event that the journal ceases operations, the journal's content on Publicera will remain archived at the National Library of Sweden.
About the journal
The Stockholm Intellectual Property Law Review (SIPLR) is a student-led journal of legal scholarship with a focus on European Intellectual Property Law. The primary purpose of SIPLR is to create an academic legal forum where the most influential and significant topics of IP law are discussed by students, scholars and lawyers. Learn more >>
SIPRL is published with the kind support of Stiftelsen Juridisk Fakultetslitteratur and the sponsorship of:
Stockholm Intellectual Property Law Review | ISSN (Online) 2003-2382 | ISSN (Print) 2003-2390
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