Ethical Considerations

The PDR is committed to ensuring the standards of publication ethics and integrity by following a fair, transparent, and timely peer-review process. Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submitted work is original, free from plagiarism, and has not been published or submitted elsewhere, mentioning acknowledgement of funding sources or conflicts of interest and citation of others’ work. Plagiarism and research misconduct will result in rejection and/or the retraction of the manuscripts. The PDR reserves the right to retract published articles if substantial errors, ethical breaches, or cases of misconduct are identified after publication.