Publication Ethics

FEATURE follows the COPE Core Practices. All parties — authors, editors, reviewers and the publisher — agree to the following standards.

Duties of Authors

• Submit original work that has not been published or is under review elsewhere.
• Report data, code and experimental settings accurately; share them where possible to support reproducibility.
• Cite datasets, models and prior work properly; disclose use of generative AI tools in the methods section.
• Declare funding sources and any conflicts of interest.

Duties of Editors

• Evaluate manuscripts solely on scientific merit, relevance and clarity.
• Keep submissions confidential and manage conflicts of interest.
• Ensure a fair, timely double-blind review process.

Duties of Reviewers

• Provide objective, constructive and timely reviews.
• Keep manuscripts confidential and do not use unpublished content.
• Declare conflicts of interest and decline when not qualified.

Plagiarism & Misconduct

All submissions are checked for similarity before review. Manuscripts with a similarity index above 20% or evidence of data fabrication, image manipulation or duplicate publication will be rejected; published articles may be retracted.