Clinical trials must be registered with a national clinical trial registration site (https://cris.nih.go.kr/) or an organization certified by the WHO or the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
2) Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest
The corresponding author must inform the editor of any potential conflicts that could influence the interpretation of results, such as financial support from pharmaceutical companies, political pressure from interest groups, or academically related issues. All financial support used in the research must be clearly disclosed.
3) Informed Consent
Copies of the patient's consent and the approval of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) must be kept. Editors or reviewers may request these copies to resolve any questions regarding patient consent or IRB approval.
4) Regulations on Human and Animal Rights
Research involving humans must comply with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration (revised in 2013). Research involving animals, including mammals and birds, must be approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and conducted in accordance with the Animal Protection Act of Korea Article 13 or equivalent regulations. Copies of the approved experimental protocols must be available to editors or reviewers upon request.
5) Authorship Qualifications
Each author listed must meet the following criteria: 1) have contributed to the conception and design of the study, data analysis, and interpretation; 2) have contributed significantly to drafting or revising the manuscript; 3) agree with the content of the final manuscript. If there are more than six authors, a detailed description of each author's role must be submitted when the manuscript is submitted.
6) Originality and Duplicate Publication
Submitted manuscripts must be original and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. No part of a manuscript that is accepted for publication can be published elsewhere without permission from the editorial board. If a manuscript published in Convergence Hepatology is found to have been published elsewhere, this will be announced in the journal, and the authors' affiliated institutions will be notified, with penalties applied.
7) Secondary Publication
Manuscripts can be republished if they meet the criteria for secondary publication as outlined in the 'ICMJE Recommendations' (http://www.icmje.org/urm_main.html).
8) Copyright Permission
When citing figures or tables from previously published articles, permission must be obtained from the original journal, and a note regarding copyright permission must be included.
