Ethical
Guidelines for Publication
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Ethical expectations
Authors'
responsibilities: Authors
submit manuscript and supporting files, as
well as act on revision requests.
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An accurate declaration of the work performed as well as an
objective discussion of its significance must be presented by the authors.
Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should
contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the
work. False or knowingly inaccurate explanations constitute unethical behavior
and are unacceptable.
·
Authors may be asked to provide the data in connection with the
paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to
such data, if applicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such
data for a reasonable time after publication.
·
The authors must submit purely original works, and if the
authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been
appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism takes many forms and all its forms
constitute unethical publishing behavior and are unacceptable.
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Manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more
than one journal must not be submitted by the Authors. Submitting the same
manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical
publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
In general, the authors should not submit for consideration in another
journal a previously published paper.
·
Proper acknowledgment of the study of others must be stated.
·
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a
significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or
interpretation of the work. All those who have made significant contributions
should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in
certain substantive aspects of the research, they should be acknowledged as
contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate
coauthors and contributors are included on the paper, and that all coauthors
have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its
submission for publication.
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It should be disclosed in the manuscript for any financial or
other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the
results or interpretation of the manuscript. All sources of financial support
for the project should be disclosed.
·
On discovering of a significant error or mistake in the
published paper, it is the authors’ obligation to promptly inform the journal
editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the
paper. If the editor or the publisher learns from a third party that a
published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author
to promptly retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editor of
the correctness of the original paper.
Reviewers' responsibilities: Reviewers are invited to work on manuscripts.
They can send comments to accept or reject assignments; and flag their own
availability. All review tasks are managed from their individual
User-Panel in the system.
·
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions. Through the editorial communications with the
author, the paper may be further improved.
Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication,
and forms the basis of the scientific method.
·
If a selected referee feels unqualified to review the study
reported in a manuscript or know that its prompt review will be impossible
should inform the editor and excuse themselves from the review process. If a qualified referee feels that he would
not be able to deliver the report within the stipulated time frame, then also
he must inform the editors immediately, so that further review time is utilized
appropriately.
·
Any manuscripts received for review process must be accepted as
confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except
as authorized by the editor.
·
The reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism
of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly
with supporting evidence.
·
The reviewers should identify relevant published work that has
not been cited by the authors. Any statements about observation, derivation, or
argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant
citation. The reviewers should also inform the editor for any substantial
similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other
published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
·
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must
not be used in the reviewer’s own research without the express written consent
of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review
must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. The reviewers
should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest
resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or
connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to
the papers.
Managing / Chief Editors'
responsibilities: Managing / Chief Editors use
the system to review manuscript submissions. They further assign it to
reviewers and other editors. They make and communicate decisions to
accept, revise, transfer or reject manuscripts.
·
The editor of a peer-reviewed journal is responsible for
deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and
readers must always drive such decisions. The editor may be guided by the
policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal
requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement
and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or referees in making
this decision.
·
The editor should examine the content of manuscripts without
regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin,
citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
·
The editor must not disclose any information about a submitted
manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, editorial
advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
·
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must
not be used in an editor’s own study without the express written consent of the
author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through submission process
must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.
The editors should recuse themselves from considering manuscripts in which they
have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other
relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or
institutions connected to the papers.
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The editors should request all contributors to disclose relevant
competing interests and publish corrections if competing interests are revealed
after publication. If needed, other interventions should be taken like the
retraction of a publication or expression of concern.
·
It should be ensured that the peer-review process for sponsored
supplements is the same as that used for the main journal. Items in sponsored
supplements should be accepted solely on the basis of academic merit and
interest to readers and not be influenced by commercial considerations.
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The editor should take reasonably responsive measures when
ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or
published paper. These measures will usually include contacting the author of
the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration of the respective
complaint or claims made, but may also include further communications to the
relevant institutions and research bodies. If the complaint is upheld, the
publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or another
note, as may be appropriate. Every reported act of unethical publishing
behavior must be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication.
These guidelines are prepared based on the Committee on
Publication Ethics’ (COPE) Best Practice and Guidance.