Policy on Data Sharing and Reproducibility
The TJMR policy on data sharing and reproducibility is in line with the principles of the Center for Open Sciences (COP) regarding ‘openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research’, which amongst other things aims to expand the practice of sharing all research content, as well as the improvement of research rigor and reproducibility. The TJMR encourages all authors of articles to share their research data, especially the specific dataset that supports the findings of the study. Data generated from research should be publicly available and can be cited in line with journal guidelines. However, in circumstances where legal, ethical, or privacy issues arise involving specific data, such data should not be shared. Authors may include a statement on Data Availability in the manuscript ensuring that data shared is consistent with the study participant’s consent on the use of confidential data.

Sharing of research data promotes data availability and helps tackle issues related to reproducibility which remains central to the development and evolution of science. Shared data allows other researchers to reproduce the study, confirm, refute, or build on the results. Authors submitting manuscripts to the TJMR for publication are required to ensure the inclusion of valid data that are reproducible by other researchers.

Complaints and Appeals
The policy of the TJMR regarding complaints and appeals is geared towards the investigation and resolution of valid complaints and appeals. Readers who have a complaint or complaints regarding the content of published articles are encouraged to first contact the corresponding author for a resolution before reaching out to the Editorial Office. Complaints and appeals for corrections or updates relating to the article’s scholarly validity, and legal or ethical issues will be investigated by the Editorial Board with final approval by the Editor-in-Chief. If the need arises, other individuals and institutions will be consulted when necessary including authorities of higher institutions of learning or experts in the relevant fields, as well as legal authorities where the complaint or appeal has legal implications. All complaints are investigated including anonymous ones. However, personal criticisms will not be acted upon.
Final decisions resulting from an investigation regarding comments, corrections, or retractions will be made by the Editor-in-Chief with support of the Editorial Board and will be communicated to authors.

Journal’s options for post-publication discussions and corrections
TJMR appreciates our responsibility to make corrections to errors in published articles that are scientifically relevant, or related to ethical issues or content with legal implications that have been brought to our notice. Criteria are in place to offer transparency to journal readers and authors as follows;

Minor Corrections
Minor corrections address issues that do not impact the scientific content of the publication but require an updated version of the article. Should this update be approved, it will be accompanied by the addition of a footnote on the PDF version, as well as the inclusion of a correction statement.

Major Corrections
Major corrections aim to address complaints and errors that could affect the scientific interpretation of an article. Once approved, the article will be updated and re-published on the TJMR website, along with a statement of correction.

Following both minor and major corrections, all relevant indexing databases will be notified to ensure that their versions are revised.