Publication Ethics
An author, Editors, Editorial Board members, and reviewers involved in the process of publishing need to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior. The ethics statements for the Journal are based on the Best Practice Guidelines by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Editor(s) Responsibilities and Ethics
- Editor is responsible for everything published in the journal; for deciding which of the manuscripts submitted to the journal will be published. Therefore Editor(s) must take care of aaccountability, should maintain absolute academic integrity and act in line with intellectual and ethical standards, fairness and confidentiality: manuscript evaluation is made without regards to the author’s race, gender, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, or political philosophy of authors. The editor(s) will not reveal any information about submitted manuscripts to anyone else than the corresponding author, reviewers and potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher.
- The editor(s) is responsible for academic integrity of published works by issuing corrections and retractions, and conflict of interest: any material or privileged information obtained during manuscript submissions will entirely be kept confidential by the editor(s).
Author Responsibilities and Ethics
- Authors are responsible for originality, acknowledgment of sources and plagiarism. They should give an accurate account of the original research as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original work. It is expected that the author will not publish redundant or manuscripts describing the same research to avoid Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publications. Sufficient detail should further be provided to enable others to replicate the work with regard to reporting standards. Authors should cite publications that have been used in the research work and acknowledge all sources of data used. 5. Authorship must to be limited to persons who have made a significant contribution to the production of study reported in the paper
- Authors who submit the manuscript to the Journal are not allowed to submit the same manuscript to any other journal concurrently, they must provide redundant or concurrent submissions.
- Authors should emphasize any conflict of interest during initial submission. In their articles, manuscript authors should point to any financial or other conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results and/or interpretation of results. Authors should disclose any source of financial support for conducted studies which underlie submitted manuscripts.
Reviewer Responsibilities and Ethics
- Reviewers assist the editor(s) in making editorial decisions and may also assist the author in improving the manuscript. Reviewers must have qualification and promptness in order to ensure their responsibilities. To information regarding manuscripts submitted the reviewer has to act as to confidential information and treated them as privileged.
- Reviewers have to ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources used in the research. Reviewers need to be completely objective, confident, with no conflict of interest when performing their reviews. A similarity or overlap between the manuscripts under review with any published paper of which reviewer is aware of must be momentarily reported to the editor's notice.
