VIGILANTIA is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics, research integrity, transparency, and responsible scholarly communication.

The journal expects all authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher to uphold the principles of honesty, accountability, fairness, confidentiality, transparency, and scientific integrity throughout the publication process.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted manuscripts are original, accurately present research findings, properly acknowledge previous work, and comply with applicable research ethics requirements.

VIGILANTIA does not tolerate any form of research or publication misconduct, including:

• Fabrication of research data
• Falsification or manipulation of research findings
• Plagiarism
• Duplicate or redundant publication
• Inappropriate or unjustified authorship
• Undisclosed conflicts of interest
• Unethical research practices
• Any other forms of research or publication misconduct

All suspected cases of research or publication misconduct will be carefully evaluated and handled in accordance with applicable publication ethics principles and established scholarly standards.