Human Animal Rights Policy

The publication in keeping with standards mandates certain pre-requisites for reporting any experiments involving animal and human subjects in allegiance with the policies formulated by AHR ensuring protection and proper use of animals and humans in any form of research. The guidelines are mentioned as follows:

1. Prior approval from the related institution/licensing committee must be taken and a statement validating the same must be included in the “Methods” section of the article along with the committee’s address.
2. A declaration stating that all the experiments have been conducted in accordance with the committee’s guidelines/regulations must be given by the author.
3. The author must present an acceptance document from the client with experiments involving client-owned animals on best practices in animal testing, if the author performs experimental studies involving animals.
4. Field studies and other non-experimental research should follow institutional, national and international guidelines, and should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee wherever applicable.
5. Informed content must be obtained from all participants or their legal guardians (in case of participant being a minor) when human subjects are involved.

The US Public Health Service Policy on human care and use of laboratory Animals (PHS Policy) and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals lay down general policies and procedures for human and live vertebrae animals and their use in medical research. Our publication finds these guidelines appropriate, sufficient and necessary. All researches involving animal and human subjects published with us comply with the PHS Policies.

The editorial team of our publication verifies all submitted manuscripts on animal and human well-being issues. Any inconsistency against the accepted policies found, will make the manuscript liable to rejection. The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to contact the approving committee for further clarification if necessary.

These policies are designed keeping in note the moral obligation towards animal and human subjects used for the research. They must be treated with care and compassion keeping in consideration their well-being.