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The Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (PJOHNS), official refereed journal of the Philippine Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, is a free and open-access journal that follows the “Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals” of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (www.icmje.org), and is listed as such: https://www.icmje.org/journals-following-the-icmje-recommendations/ - P

Its academic editors are committed to fair and professional dealing in all aspects of our publishing operations. Their affiliations are listed on this website, and they additionally disclose other potential conflicts of interest when needed. Our role is to publish original work of value to the intellectual community in the best possible form and to the highest possible standards. We expect similar standards from our reviewers and authors. Honesty, originality and fair dealing on the part of authors, and fairness, objectivity and confidentiality on the part of editors and reviewers are among the critical values that enable us to achieve our aim.    The PJOHNS endorses and behaves in accordance with the codes of conduct and international standards established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) in their joint statement on the Principles of Transparency & Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, available at https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.12.