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Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
Our Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement is based on the Best Practice
Guidelines for Journal Editors1 and the position statements developed by the Committee on
Publication Ethics (COPE) at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore 20102.
Publication decisions
The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be
published. 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 reviewers in making
this decision. The editor should maintain the integrity of the academic record, preclude business
needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards, and always be willing to publish
corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
Fair play
The editor evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender,
sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the
author(s).
Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted
manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers,
other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own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 editor should seek so ensure a fair and appropriate peer-review process. The editor should
recuse oneself from handling manuscripts (i.e. should ask a co-editor, associate editor, or other
1 For further details, please visit the following link http://publicationethics.org/files/u2/Best_Practice.pdf
2 For further details, please visit the following link
http://publicationethics.org/files/International%20standards_authors_for%20website_11_Nov_2011.pdf
member of the editorial board instead to review and consider) in which they have conflicts of
interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with
any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers.
Duties of reviewers
Contribution to editorial decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial
communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or
knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself
from the review process.
Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not
be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
Standards of objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate.
Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Acknowledgement of sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any
statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
Disclosure and conflict of interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not
used for personal advantage. 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.
Duties of authors
Reporting standards
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work
performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be
represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to
permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute
unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
Data access and retention
Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and
should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM
Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain
such data for a reasonable time after publication.
Originality and plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors
have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication
An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in
more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than
one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
Acknowledgement of sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite
publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
Authorship of the paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the
conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. 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 project, they should be
acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all
appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all
co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its
submission for publication.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of
interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript.
All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is
the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with
the editor to retract or correct the paper.
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