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14/09/2026

🔍 How do you know a scientific article is trustworthy?

Behind every published article sits a structure of rules most readers never see — and that structure is what separates trustworthy science from just any content. It's called publication ethics: the criteria that decide who can put their name on a study, how it's evaluated before going public, and what happens when something goes wrong.

At Malque Publishing, this isn't a slogan — it's practice recorded in every submission:

📝 Authorship: ICMJE-aligned criteria — only those who genuinely contributed to the research, took part in drafting or critical revision, approved the final version, and are accountable for its integrity get to sign it.

👥 Peer review: double-blind model, with author and reviewer identities protected, and the final call always made by an independent editor.

🚫 Integrity: zero tolerance for plagiarism (including self-plagiarism), data fabrication, or image manipulation — every submission is checked with similarity-detection software.

🐾🧑‍⚕️ Studies involving humans or animals require prior ethics committee approval, with registration in recognized platforms when applicable.

📌 Post-publication: we use CrossMark to flag the current version of record for every article, with public correction and retraction policies whenever needed.

💬 Trust in science isn't built after an article is published — it's built, rule by rule, before that.

👉 See how we put each of these practices into action: https://malque.pub/publication-ethics-how-malque-implements-them/

11/09/2026

🕯️ 25 years after 2001, how far does the "national security" argument go?

In 2026, it has been 25 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States — a quarter-century since the turning point that reshaped how governments around the world approach national security and counter-terrorism. Over that period, surveillance measures, restrictions on freedoms, and new emergency powers have expanded in the name of security. A new study asks: where is the limit?

🔍 An international legal analysis

Researchers examined the UN Charter, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions, and the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, along with case law from the European Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice, to map the legal limits of state intervention in the name of security.

📊 National security is not a blank check

The conclusion is direct: restricting human rights is only admissible when the measure is legal, demonstrably necessary, proportionate, non-discriminatory, and time-limited. Invoking national security, the authors argue, can never justify an unlimited restriction of rights and freedoms — and international oversight mechanisms (the UN, regional courts, monitoring procedures) are essential to prevent abuses by states.

💬 If every emergency measure should have a time limit and be proportionate, how many of those born after 2001 are still standing, a quarter-century later, having never been reviewed?

Read the full article: https://doi.org/10.31893/multirev.2026spe003

This research was conducted by:

🦲 Mariia Pozhydaieva, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
🦲 Vladyslav Kubalskyi, Bogdan Ostudimov, and Yaroslav Zhovnirchyk, V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law, Ukraine
🦲 Oleksiy Kharchenko, Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, Ukraine
Аnzhelika Krusian, Ukraine

09/09/2026

📚 Two dates, one right: to learn, and to keep the school standing.

Every September 8 marks International Literacy Day, established by UNESCO in 1966 — a reminder that reading and writing remain, for millions of people, a right still unmet.

Today, September 9, the UN calendar follows with the International Day to Protect Education from Attack, created in 2020 to draw attention to something even graver: in conflict zones around the world, schools, teachers and students remain direct targets of attack.

The two dates, side by side, tell a single story. What good is teaching someone to read if the school might not be standing tomorrow? Literacy and the protection of education are two faces of the same right — and both depend on research that documents what works, what fails, and how to rebuild access to education where it has been disrupted.

📋 Call for Papers — Education & Human Rights

Is your research in this field? The Humanities Journal welcomes work on literacy, access to education, conflict and human rights — and more broadly, the humanities and social sciences. Publish with those who will read your work, APC-Free in 2026:

📖 Humanities Journal (ISSN 2966-1382) · malque.pub/hj

To everyone who teaches reading even under threat: thank you. 📖

07/09/2026

🐔 Does a better-fed chicken mean cleaner air in the barn?

Every September 7 marks the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies. Few pollution sources are as everyday as broiler houses, where ammonia and other gases build up in the litter with every flock. An obvious question follows: if a feed additive already improves the bird's performance, does it also improve the air inside?

🔍 A meta-analysis of 145 studies

Researchers pooled 145 trials and 852 data points on dietary protease supplementation in broilers, assessing both growth performance and gas emissions — ammonia (NH3), hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and methyl mercaptan (CH3SH).

📊 Performance goes up, the air doesn't change

Protease significantly improved feed conversion and weight gain (p

02/09/2026

Imagine a woman entrepreneur who has run her own business for 15 years — but has never had a bank account. 📱💰

In Morocco's informal sector, being an experienced businesswoman can paradoxically mean staying outside the formal financial system. A new study in the Multidisciplinary Science Journal (MSJ), from Malque Publishing, surveyed 138 women entrepreneurs in the Fez-Meknes region to understand what opens — or closes — the door to a bank account.

Morocco has had a national financial inclusion strategy since 2017, but the gender gap in bank account ownership has barely moved. Using logistic regression, the researchers isolated what actually makes a difference.

Four factors raise the odds of holding a bank account: using a smartphone to manage the business, holding a university degree, owning productive equipment, and accessing government support — each a different gateway: technological, educational, asset-based, or institutional.

The most striking finding runs the other way: more years in business and an older company both lower the odds of being banked. It isn't a lack of success — it's the opposite. Experienced entrepreneurs have already built solid informal financial networks that end up playing the bank's role. Financial inclusion isn't earned over time — it's replaced by informal alternatives that take hold because the formal system never arrived.

It's the first quantitative study on the determinants of financial inclusion among women entrepreneurs in Morocco's informal sector — and it suggests policy must compete with already-consolidated informal networks, not just open accounts.

📖 Full abstract (open access): https://malque.pub/ojs/index.php/msj/article/view/18498

🦲 This research was conducted by:

Fatima Zahrae Krimma, LSEPP Lab, Faculty of Economics and Management (FEG), Ibn Tofail University, Kénitra, Morocco

Mohamed Reda Rouijel, ERMOT Lab, FSJES, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fès, Morocco .lab

Noureddine Amiri, LEMO Lab, FEG, Ibn Tofail University, Kénitra, Morocco

01/09/2026

Publicação Gratuita para Artigos submetidos até 31/12/2026.

Applied Veterinary Research (ISSN 2764-4820) is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal published quarterly online by Malque Publishing .…

31/08/2026

📊 August's most-read at Malque

August was a month of hard questions and open answers — from the hidden cost of a warming world to the memory of victims we don't forget. And by month's end, these were the articles you read the most.

At the top of the house, a study on juvenile offenders in the Philippines passed 2,200 views; in health, an investigation into the rejection of blood samples in primary care crossed 1,300. From digital currency to elephants, from fireflies to gender equality — the science that circulated most was as diverse as the month itself.

Swipe to see the three most-read articles in each Malque journal between August 1 and 30. Open access, free to read, download and share — because knowledge that circulates is knowledge that transforms.

Which one have you already read? Tell us in the comments 👇

🔗 All articles at malque.pub/journals

28/08/2026

☢️ A line the world drew — and has to keep drawing.

Tomorrow, August 29, is the International Day against Nuclear Tests. The date is no accident: on this day in 1991, Kazakhstan closed the Semipalatinsk test site, where hundreds of nuclear detonations had scarred the land and the people living near it.

In 2009, the turned that moment into a global observance.

Behind the date is a staggering figure: since 1945, more than 2,000 nuclear tests have been carried out around the world — each one a burst of energy with consequences measured in generations, from irradiated landscapes to communities still living with the health legacy today.

The world's answer was the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty of 1996 — a near-universal promise to stop testing. Yet, three decades on, it has still not formally entered into force, and in a moment of renewed geopolitical tension, the norm against testing feels less settled than it once did.

This is where science quietly does its work. A global network of seismic, hydroacoustic, and radionuclide sensors can detect a nuclear test almost anywhere on Earth — proof that verification, not trust alone, is what keeps the taboo alive. The very technology that once built these weapons is now central to containing them.

On a day like this, the conversation belongs not only to diplomats, but to the researchers, engineers, and technologists who build the tools of detection, security, and accountability.

📋 Researching technology, security, or their impact on society? Bring your work to a journal that will read it — APC-Free in 2026:

💻 NexusTech (ISSN 3085-9093) · malque.pub/tech

26/08/2026

🐕 Happy International Dog Day!

Today we celebrate the animal that chose to walk beside us — but for millions of people, a dog is far more than a companion. It's a pair of eyes, a set of ears, an early-warning system, a reason to keep going.

Dogs today are trained across a whole spectrum of roles: guide dogs for blindness, hearing dogs for deafness, mobility-assistance dogs, and medical alert dogs that can flag an epileptic seizure, a diabetic blood-sugar crash, or a cardiovascular event — plus psychiatric support dogs for people living with autism or depression. 🦮

A review in the Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology points to why it works, at the level of biology. Positive contact between a dog and its person triggers a measurable shift in the body: oxytocin — the "bonding hormone" — rises, while cortisol (the stress hormone) and heart rate fall. That calm you feel with a dog's head on your lap isn't only in your mind; it's in your bloodstream.

And here's the part we love most: the shift runs both ways. The bond doesn't only help the human — it improves the dog's welfare too. Kept active, engaged, and close to the people they trust, dogs thrive on the very connection they give us.

So today, give them an extra minute, an extra walk, an extra thank-you. They've earned it.

Read the full article: https://doi.org/10.31893/jabb.23ss03

🔬 Research by: David Menor-Campos, Angelo Gazzano, Karina Lezama-García, Adriana Domínguez-Oliva, Asahi Ogi, and Daniel Mota-Rojas.

📋 Researching animal health, welfare, or veterinary science? Publish where it's read:

🐾 Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology (ISSN 2318-1265) · malque.pub/jabb
🐾 Applied Veterinary Research (ISSN 2764-4820) · malque.pub/avr

24/08/2026

⚖️ Equality on paper — and everything that comes after it.

This week, the United States marks Women's Equality Day (August 26), commemorating the day in 1920 when the 19th Amendment guaranteed American women the constitutional right to vote — a milestone Congress formally recognized in 1973.

It was a beginning, not a finish line: many women, especially women of color, would wait far longer to exercise that right in practice.

A century on, the date is an invitation to ask how far equality has actually traveled — from the letter of the law to the texture of everyday life. Two open-access reads from our Humanities Journal take up that question from very different angles:

📖 "Gender equality: Progress and challenges in European society" — how legal frameworks and institutional commitment shape (or fail to shape) women's real standing across different fields. · https://doi.org/10.31893/humanitj.2024005

📖 "Gender, power, and resistance in Indonesian women's fiction" — how literature, and even BookTok, become sites of feminist resistance, carrying Global South voices into global conversations. · https://doi.org/10.31893/humanitj.2026022

📋 CALL FOR PAPERS — researching gender, equality, rights, or representation? Bring your work to a journal that will read it, APC-Free in 2026:

📖 Humanities Journal (ISSN 2966-1382) · malque.pub/hj

At Malque, that conviction shapes how we publish. Our journals are committed to diverse voices and perspectives — welcoming researchers at every career stage and from every part of the world.

Several of our journals are APC-Free in 2026 — no publication fees at all — and where charges do apply, our APC Waiver grants a 50% discount to authors based in low-income countries (per the World Bank classification).

Because a strong study shouldn't go unread for lack of funds. Equality shouldn't stop at the law; in research, it means an equal chance to be read.

🌍 See the World Bank low-income list: data.worldbank.org/income-level/low-income