Publication Ethics

Responsibility of the author

  1. Author list: The list of authors appearing on the article should contain only those who are involved in the research design, implementation, or interpretation of the research as it appears in the article. Everyone who makes a significant contribution should be indicated as author(s) in the order of the contribution. Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an acknowledgment section. The corresponding author should ensure that all significant contributors are named as the authors of the articles. The corresponding author ensure that all authors have read, agree to submit articles to the journal. All authors give consent for the publication and agree to be responsible for the work submitted to the journal.
  1. Conflicts of interest: All authors are required to disclose conflicts of interest that may have a significant effect or influence on the findings or the interpretation of data in the article. The source of funding for the research or the preparation of the manuscript must be mentioned in the acknowledgment.
  2. Originality: As submission, the authors confirm that all authors are the owner of the article. The manuscript should be unique and not published elsewhere. If you have reused or adapted figures, tables or sections of text from papers published elsewhere, appropriate citations must be provided appropriately. The submitted manuscript should not be under consideration by any other journal or has previously been presented at conferences (unless significantly added to the extent that it is considered a different work from the presentation). To submit the manuscript more than one journal at the same time is considered unethical behavior.
  3. Standards of writing: The manuscript should provide sufficient details; especially in the methodology, to enable repeatability. Presentation of information in the report must be accurate. Data modification or deliberate misinterpretation is considered as unethical behavior.
  4. Data access and retention: The journal may request the authors to submit the raw data for data verification; therefore, the authors should keep their research data until the paper has been published for a period of time.
  5. Finding critical errors in the publications: If the authors find significant mistake(s) in the published articles, the authors are responsible for informing the journal and coordinating with the editors to make corrections or withdraw them if necessary.

Responsibility of the reviewer

All submissions will undergo external peer review by two experts in the article's research field. The journal requires a fair, honest, and unbiased assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the manuscript. The responsibility of the reviewers is as following;

  1. Disclosure and conflicts of interest: The reviewers should declare all potential competing, or conflicting, interests. If reviewers are unsure about a potential competing interest that may prevent you from providing a fair and unbiased review, the reviewers should not agree to review. Competing interests may be personal, financial, intellectual, professional, or religious in nature.
  2. Timeliness
  3. Confidentiality: the manuscript should be treated as confidential documents. The reviewer refrain from using information obtained during the peer review process for one’s advantage, or to disadvantage or discredit others.
  4. Bias: It is important to remain justice and unbiased. The reviewers should express their opinions clearly with detailed and constructive descriptions to help authors improve their manuscript.

 

Responsibility of the editor

  1. Evaluation fairness: Editors remain unbiased by manuscript considerations related to the characteristics of the authors, organization, or any attribute.
  2. Confidentiality: Editors will not disclose information about manuscript submitted to the journal to anyone other than corresponding author(s), and reviewers. Editors will do their best to ensure the peer review process is double-blinded. 
  3. Suspicion of ethics violations: In the case of any ethical concerns, editors will stop the manuscript consideration process and request for the sufficient evidence and explanation from authors.
  4. Disclosure and conflicts of interest: Any supporting agencies or other support related to manuscript preparation should be informed to editors. Editors should not have conflicts of interest with authors, reviewers, and editorial teams.
  5. Finding critical errors in the publications: If the authors report significant mistake(s) in the published articles, editors are responsible for revision or withdraw the articles if necessary.