Health Emergency and Disaster Nursing

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Authors must declare any financial support or relationships that may pose a conflict of interest. It is the responsibility of the authors to disclose to the Editor any significant financial or personal interests they may have in products, technology or methodology mentioned in their manuscript. This information will be deemed confidential and will only be disclosed to manuscript reviewers if, in t…

Authors must disclose the source of publicly available data and materials, such as public repositories or commercial manufacturers, by including accession numbers or company details in their manuscript, as appropriate. Authors may make their own data and materials available by linking from their manuscript to relevant community-recognized public databases or digital repositories. All data sets mus…

HEDN is fully Open Access and uses a Creative Commons (CC) license, which, under predefined conditions, allows users to use, reuse and build upon the material published in the journal without charge or the need to ask prior permission from the publisher or author. Copyright and licensing Authors retain copyright but are required to sign a License to Publish to grant the Disaster Nursing Group perm…

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HEDN is fully Open Access and uses a Creative Commons (CC) license, which, under predefined conditions, allows users to use, reuse and build upon the material published in the journal without charge or the need to ask prior permission from the publisher or author. Copyright and licensing Authors retain copyright but are required to sign a License to Publish to grant the Disaster Nursing Group perm…

Editorial and peer review process Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are subject to double-blind peer review and are sent to two or more anonymous reviewers by the relevant Editor. The final decision on a manuscript’s suitability for publication in the journal is the responsibility of the Editorial Board.. When a manuscript is submitted to the journal, it is assigned to the Editor-in-Chief…

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HEDN supports the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) policy on Clinical Trials Registration, which recommends that all clinical trials are registered in a public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. Authors of manuscripts describing clinical trials must include the name of the trial registry and t…