Publication Ethics
Author Ethical Responsibilities
- Authors must certify that their manuscript is their original work and has not been previously published elsewhere.
- Authors must obtain from the co-author(s), if any, their approval for the manuscript submission.
- Authors whose names appear on the submission, must truly contribute to their works.
- Authors must present their works, especially the results, honestly without fabrication.
- Authors must refer to the works of other authors. Providing that such works are being used in the authors’ work, they must write a reference.
- Authors must write the manuscript correctly according to the format guide.
- Authors are responsible for identifying and declaring all funding sources.
- If their research involves human participants and animals. They must receive approval from the appropriate ethics committee for research involving humans and/or animals.
Editor Roles and Responsibility
- Editors must perform all duties carefully to certify the quality of a manuscript being published bearing in mind that the journal has the clearly-defined goals and standards.
- Editors must protect any information of authors and reviewers to other parties who are not involved in any stage of paper evaluation whatsoever.
- Editors must detect and respond to duplications/plagiarism seriously.
- If a manuscript contains plagiarized materials, falsified or manipulated data, the editors must withhold the review process and immediately contact the corresponding author to provide transparency on his/her work before acceptance or rejection for publication.
- Editors must allow authors to issue an appeal providing that authors hold different opinions from editors.
- Editors must not reject a paper for publication solely on the basis of their suspicion or uncertainty; they must supply sound evidence to justify such doubt.
- Editors must have a management system which is not in conflict of interest with authors and reviewers as well as the editorial board.
- Editors must support freedom of expression, maintain the correctness of the scholarly work.
Reviewer Roles and Responsibilities
- Reviewers must protect confidentiality and not disclose any information of a paper sent for consideration to uninvolved parties during the evaluation process.
- Reviewers must evaluate a paper in their field of specialization based on the significance of the contents, the quality of analysis.
- Reviewers must not have any conflicts of interest with the author of the article.
