BIOPHILIA
Mission:
The BIOPHILIA is an academic journal of the International Biophilia Rehabilitation
Academy that is aiming at the restructuring of the rehabilitation medicine
based on engineering and a proposing intervention approach. We will realize
it on our research which is aiming "Overcome disability" with
changing the rehabilitation medical concept "Disability acceptance"
by the self-sustaining rehabilitation medicine and alternative healthcare
of it. To responsibly evaluate and disseminate scientific research findings
on the development of the rehabilitation medicine which contributes to
the functional brain improvement.
We focus on not only restructuring the rehabilitation medicine but also establishing the sustainable super-aged society by the modification of social systems such as a Japanese Care Insurance Act.
We ensure to preserve the independence life of elderly including disabled or fatigue elderly with little care by our research.
We publish articles to bring about restructuring of the rehabilitation medicine in order to sustain society and social security.
Purpose and Scope: Purpose of our journal:
i) Dissemination of the knowledge on the need to establish a new civilization
which would not see the increasing number of the elderly is a negative
factor in the restructuring of the rehabilitation medicine and introducing
the Biophilia rehabilitation ii)
Publishing of educational and research papers iii) Sharing the latest
tendencies and discoveries in the related fields of science iv) Publishing
various matters processed at the International Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy
(IBRA) v) Recording events connected with the development of the Biophilia
Rehabilitation Academy
Priority areas: Various social problems in aging societies are today’s global
issues. Aging proceeds globally in the world while Japan is expected to become a
super-aged society in the unprecedented short term. An increase in the elderly
population, including the disabled, demands the expansion of social
security-related expenditures, which confers an unbearable burden to the
following generation. The “Aging Crises” would give rise to the collapse of the
social system. We are here to emphasize the importance of the integration of the
elderly population toward the productive society and in the reform of the life
cycle that is currently refined by education, labor, and retirement. In order to
establish a sustainable society, in which the elderly can be independent, we
need to explore the occupations that are suitable for the elderly and reduce
social security-related expenditures. In our research scheme, we conjugated the
related research fields including medical science, engineering, and social
science in order to integrate the various aspects of a complex aged society.
Restructuring of the Rehabilitation Medicine is indispensable. BIOPHILIA
welcomes effective articles towards this realization and accepts international
submissions You can find the BIOPHILIA Manuscript Submission Guidelines for
Submitting Manuscripts and Instructions for Preparing Manuscripts on following ours; http://www.biophilia.pw/journal/06.shtml Submissions to BIOPHILIA are initially reviewed for completeness before
the review process is initiated. We require all components, as spelled out in
the BIOPHILIA Submission Guidelines (also available online through our Web site
and Manuscript Central), to be submitted. Incomplete submissions will be
withdrawn by the Editorial Office, and authors will be instructed to complete
their submissions. Prior to electronic submission, our international authors may
want to have a native check and/or to contact a professional translating company
that specializes in editing scientific documents.
Authors and authorship: BIOPHILIA limits the number of authors on any submitted
manuscript to ten. BIOPHILIA is designed to collect the names of ten authors on
a paper for metadata purposes only. Specifically, authorship credit should
be based only on (1) substantially contributing to study conception and design,
acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; (2) drafting the
article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and (3)
providing final approval of the version to be published. All three
conditions must be met. Acquiring funding, collecting data, or supervising the
research group do not justify authorship.? Ghost authorship occurs when someone
makes a significant contribution to a manuscript without a due acknowledgment of
his role. Guest authorship, in contrast, occurs when an individual is named as
an author of a manuscript when they do not meet authorship criteria. Both are
disturbingly common. Ghost and guest authorship are breaches of professional
ethics. They violate readers f trust in scientific reporting and have the
potential to distort medical literature. Articles found to have ghost or guest
authors will be retracted by BIOPHILIA. Therefore, after a manuscript has
been accepted, every author listed on the submission will be required to have
his or her contribution listed in the Acknowledgments section at the end of the
article. Others who have contributed to the work but who do not meet the
guidelines for authorship should be thanked in the Acknowledgments section.
Plagiarism: The plagiarism is a misuse of creative expression
from others in the forms of ideas, words, photographs, and graphical renditions.
Stated simply, plagiarism is when one person uses material(s) that are not their
original work without documentation (accurately citing the source, using
quotation marks if necessary, and obtaining appropriate permissions). Plagiarism
includes copying or paraphrasing text from others or self-work
(self-plagiarism), copying equations or graphical renditions not commonly known,
using previously published data, and using copied or altered photographs.
Plagiarism is a violation of copyright law and is punishable by law.
Moreover, since BIOPHILIA is the latest journal in the world to restructure
the rehabilitation medicine, it is never allowed. Material published by
BIOPHILIA is assumed by all parties to be original unless a proper citation is
used. To protect the integrity of the scientific record, any material that has
appeared in print or online must contain the proper citation to the original
work. Plagiarism Detection Software In 2015, BIOPHILIA began screening all
conditionally accepted papers with "Anti-Plagiarism" online plagiarism-detection
software. Authors will be contacted if any issues arise during this process.
Any plagiarism or self-plagiarism will be detected, and authors will be required
to submit revisions. We recommend that authors analyze their own work with
plagiarism-detection software before submission. In addition, most universities
and institutions have plagiarism-detection software available. In case of
self-plagiarism, authors will be given 14 days to submit revisions and must
substantially revise the previously published text. We have found that most
instances of self-plagiarism involve the Introduction or Methods sections.
We offer the following suggestions in these instances: (1) Remove the
duplicate text and add a properly cited statement such as ”This study has been
described in detail elsewhere.”; (2) Enclose duplicate text in quotation
marks, again with proper citation; (3) Paraphrase text with an appropriate
citation, or (4) Create a properly cited Appendix containing the duplicate
material to be included in online publication only. If the plagiarism comes
to light and is presented to the Editor before publication, the Editor will
conduct a preliminary investigation to ascertain whether the allegations have
merit. The Editor will contact the authors and present the plagiarism evidence
as well as inform the Department Chair, Dean, or direct supervisor of the
authors and the funding agency. The manuscript will be rejected without further
consideration and the authors will be sent a copy of the BIOPHILIA Editorial
Policies. The authors will be asked to write a formal letter of apology to the
plagiarized authors with a carbon copy to the Editor. The authors will have an
annotation to their Manuscript Central file indicating this offense as well as a
copy of the apology letter.
Conflict of Interest: BIOPHILIA
has a primary responsibility to its stakeholders to provide unbiased scientific
results and analyzes, with a transparent reporting of competing financial
interests or other interests. We require all authors to declare any competing
financial or other interests in relation to the work described within the
context of the submission. Competing interests can be of two major types and
must be reported by all authors: Direct and personal, such as equity, stock
ownership, consulting, research support and funding, and personal patents
(applied, in-process, or awarded). Indirect, such as employment by an agency
that may gain or lose financially; management or advisory affiliations, or
consulting (all within the last 2 years); and corporate patents (applied,
in-process, or awarded).
All authors must complete the BIOPHILIA Form for
Disclosure of Conflicts to submit a manuscript to BIOPHILIA. The form is also
available from the BIOPHILIA Website. If the BIOPHILIA Form for A Disclosure of
Conflicts form is not received, the submission will not be processed. http://www.biophilia.pw/journal/disclosure-of-conflicts.pdf
Author List: The author list must fill the necessary
information on the WEB.
Authors’ Statement of Originality: Statement of Originality Material submitted to BIOPHILIA must be
original and not published or submitted elsewhere. All authors are deemed to be
individually and collectively responsible for submissions to BIOPHILIA and are
required to forward to the BIOPHILIA Editorial Office the BIOPHILIA Authors
Statement of Originality form signed by all authors (this form is available
online from the BIOPHILIA Web site and Manuscript Central under the Instructions
and Forms tab; the Manuscript Central ID number must be listed on the form). By
submitting this form with the manuscript, the corresponding author accepts the
responsibility that all authors have agreed to be listed as contributors and
have seen and approved the manuscript and its content prior to submission.
An Authors’ Statement of Originality form would be submissions containing
material that has previously formed all or part of a doctoral or other academic
thesis and that has been published according to the guidelines of the
institution granting the degree, as long as the material is not in part or in
total a compilation of previously published material from other journals or
scientific publications. If the paper has more than six authors, a new form
must be submitted with all the information filled out again for every author.
Authors’ Statement of Originality form http://www.biophilia.pw/journal/authors-statement-of-originality.pdf
The form is a fillable PDF that must be emailed (takizawa@
biophilia.biz) or faxed (81‐466‐90 - 4552) to the BIOPHILIA Editorial Office.
Copyright Transfer: The author(s) hereby agrees to transfer to
the International Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy, the copyrights of the paper,
title specified above, when it is published in The Biophilia Journal shall have
the right to publish the paper in any medium of form, or by any means now known
or later developed. The author(s) reserve(s) the following: (1) All
proprietary rights other than copyright such as patent rights. (2) The right
to use all or part of the manuscript in personal future works such as books and
lectures. A Copyright Transfer form is not received, the submission will not
be processed. http://www.biophilia.pw/journal/2014COPYRIGHT_TRANSFER_FORM.xlsx
The form is an Excel file that must be emailed (takizawa@ biophilia.biz)
or faxed (81‐466‐90 - 4552) to the BIOPHILIA Editorial Office.
Clinical Trial Registration: BIOPHILIA requires the
registration in a public trials registry of all trials that meet the minimum
registration data set requirement as described by the ICMJE as a condition for
publication. A clinical trial is any study that prospectively assigns human
subjects to intervention or comparison groups to evaluate the cause-and-effect
relationship between a medical intervention and a health outcome. For more
information, please refer to the ICMJE Web site. Please note: If clinical trial
registration is required but has not been completed, authors will not be allowed
to continue uploading their submission into Access attestation. Trials should be
registered in one of the following trial registries: USA Clinical Trials,
Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry, Nederlands Trial Register,
UMIN Clinical Trials Registry. BIOPHILIA requires authors to document
institutional review board procedures on human subjects and animals. In
addition, if the manuscript involved human study participants, authors will be
asked to provide a statement indicating whether or not the human study
participants will be informed about the accepted publication.
Privacy Policy: The International Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy (IBRA,
hereafter) asks for the individual information including a coauthor in
connection with manuscript contribution because it is important for scientific
development and justification reservation. However we are striving for
maintenance of accuracy and safety about the proper use, offer, and management
in view of the importance of the individual information protection. IBRA
publicizes this privacy policy to a member and carries it out certainly.
Attention: Approval from the Ethics Committee to perform the
study, as the first sentence in the Methods, and the conflict of interest
statement after the main body of text, second to Acknowledgments are a must.
Without these statements, the articles will not be considered.
To
Contribute Your Manuscript If you would like to contribute your
manuscript, you need to register being a member of the International Biophilia
Rehabilitation Academy. In addition, everyone who registered ID and password
even as a coauthor becomes automatically a free and affiliated member of IBRA.
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