The URL of official journal web site is http://www.jcpjournal.org/main.html

2020-05-08 The JCP team endeavors to make a good website. JCP website demonstrates that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards. It does not contain any misleading information, including any attempt to mimic another journal/publisher’s site.

The official journal title is the Journal of Cancer Prevention of ISO is J Cancer Prev.

The JCP has on online submission and peer review system at http://www.jcpjournal.org/submission

All papers, including those invited by the Editor, are subject to peer review. A manuscript is first reviewed for its format and adherence to the aims and scope of the journal. If the manuscript does not fit the aims and scope of the Journal or does not adhere to the Instructions for Authors, it may be returned to the author immediately after receipt and without a review. Before reviewing, all submitted manuscripts are inspected by Similarity Check powered by iThenticate (https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check/), a plagiarism-screening tool.

The journal uses a double-blind peer-review process: the reviewers do not know the identity of the authors, and vice versa. Manuscripts are reviewed by at least 2 external experts and editors. JCP’s average turnaround time from submission to decision is 3 weeks. The editor is responsible for the final decision whether the manuscript is accepted or rejected.

This journal is owned by the publisher, the Korean Society of Cancer Prevention. (http://www.kscp.or.kr/)

The governing body is the journal's editorial board. The full names and affiliations of the journal’s editors and members of journal management team are displayed on the About (Editorial Board & Journal Management Team) tab of journal homepage, and the contact information for the Editor and editorial office is on the About (Contact Us) tab.

Copyright to all published materials is owned by Korean Society of Cancer Prevention. All authors should agree to the copyright transfer during the submission process.

JCP is an open access journal. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To use the tables or figures of JCP in other journals, books or media for scholarly, educational purposes, the process of permission request to the publisher of JCP is not necessary. All contents of the journal are available immediately upon publication without embargo period.

There is no author’s submission fee or other publication-related fees as all publication costs are shouldered by the publisher.

The editorial board of JCP have carefully examined all submitted manuscripts whether these are abided by the ethical guidelines of the ICMJE and COPE. The published articles have involved the statements of conflict of interest, institutional review board, informed consent, and human/animal rights.

When the Journal faces suspected cases of research and publication misconduct such as a redundant (duplicate) publication, plagiarism, fabricated data, changes in authorship, undisclosed conflicts of interest, an ethical problem discovered with the submitted manuscript, a reviewer who has appropriated an author’s idea or data, complaints against editors, and other issues, the resolving process will follow the flowchart provided by the COPE (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts). The editorial board of JCP will discuss the suspected cases and reach a decision. JCP will not hesitate to publish errata, corrigenda, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.

JCP follows the Guideline on Good Publication of COPE (https://publicationethics.org), Recommendations of International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (http://www.icmje.org/recommendations), and Good Publication Practice Guidelines for Medical Journals of Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (http://kamje.or.kr).

Our publication ethics are displayed on the Editorial Policy (Publication Ethics) tab of journal homepage.

JCP is published 4 times (the 30 day of March, June, September, December) a year.

JCP is an open access journal. A free full-text service both in the XML and PDF formats is available immediately upon publication without embargo period.

Full text of JCP has been archived in National Library of Korea (http://www.nl.go.kr). According to the deposit policy (self-archiving policy) of Sherpa/Romeo (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk), authors cannot archive pre-print (i.e., pre-refereeing), but they can archive post-print (i.e., final draft post-refereeing). Authors can archive publisher's version/PDF. JCP provides the electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content in the event the journal is no longer published by archiving in National Library of Korea.

Revenue sources of journal are from the support of publisher (Korean Research Society of Physical Therapy) and advertising rates.

JCP accepts advertisements. The policy of advertising is displayed on the Editorial Policy (Advertising Policy) tab of journal homepage.

Journal propagation has been done through the journal web site and distribution of an introduction pamphlet. Invitations to submit a manuscript are usually focused on the presenters at conferences, seminars, or workshops if the topic is related to the journal's aims and scope.