Publication Ethics
Editorial Duties and Responsibilities:
- Publication Decisions
Researches submitted to the journal are peer-reviewed by experts to guarantee that they meet all criteria of publication conditions and terms regardless of gender, race, backgrounds, religion, nationality, ethnicity, and political philosophy. The Journal's editorial board is responsible for approving the publication of the submitted academic scientific researches. The scientific and academic value, scientific research integrity, language, ethical criteria, citation, and plagiarism are taken into consideration before publication. The editorial board is adhered to improve the scientific academic sobriety of the journal through the publication of academic scientific researches according to their clarity, importance, originality, and accordance with conditions and terms announced previously to researchers.
- Confidentiality
The editorial board chief and members pledge the confidentiality of the information related to submitted researches and documents except for those necessary information authorized by the editors, authors, consultants, and publishers.
- Disclosure and Conflicts–of–Interests
The chief or the members of the editorial board are not permitted to use any information occurred in the unpublished documents or academic scientific researches unless they have a written permission from the original author of the research.
Reviewers' Responsibilities:
- Participation to Editorial Decisions
The peer review process of researches assists the editorial board to make an appropriate decision in relation to the research as well as assisting the author to improve his/her research. The editorial board is adhered to grant peer reviewers the standards, regulations, and level of originality of the accepted researches and documents for publications in the journal. In addition, the editorial board is adhered to not disclosing the names of the peer reviewers unless with a written consent by the concerned peer reviewers.
- Promptness
The selected peer reviewers are committed to notify the editorial board of their apology for reviewing as soon as possible.
- Confidentiality
Reviewers are required to deal confidentially with the documents and researches sent to them. The documents and researches cannot be revealed or debated with others, unless it's with the editor of the journal.
- Criteria of Objectivity
The criteria of objectivity in peer reviewing are fundamental requirements and the personal judgement concerning authors is not permitted and disregarded. The peer review process must be enhanced by scientific academic arguments, and clear points of view; it must be in accordance with the journal’s adopted criteria and regulations of “publication requirements”.
Acknowledgement of Resources
Reviewers are committed to notify the editorial board of the non-compliance of the author with the requirements of publication. In addition, they are committed to ensure the appropriateness of the references as well as the correct referencing (references should be matched in the body text and bibliography). The arguments and views presented in the research should not belong to other researches. Reviewers are committed to notify the editor of any affinity or overlap between researches submitted to the journal and any other published researches.
- Disclosure and Conflict of Interests
Reviewers are not permitted to use any ideas or information occurred in the reviewed researches for competitive interests, personal purposes, or any other interests. Furthermore, they are required to reveal any conflict of interests that may cause their opinion about the research be biased.
Authors' Duties:
- Reporting Criteria
Researchers are required to comply with the disciplines and regulations of “publication policy” and the journal’s approved writing style. Criteria of accuracy must be provided through clarity of the aim, presentation of results in an accurate and sequential way, debating these results to accomplish the aims of the research paralleled by the research approach objective justification. Researches should be accompanied with work details as well as modern scientific references. Additionally, it should include results not stated in other researches. Inclusion of forged and stolen results is regarded unacceptable and unethical behaviour. The researcher is required to sign a pledge concerning the above conditions.
Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication
Researchers are not permitted to send their researches to more than one journal; otherwise, it would be against the policy of the publication. Researchers are not permitted to submit a peer reviewed research by another journal which has its own policy of publication. In case of submission of a research, the researcher can retain his/her published research.
- Authorship of the Research
The research should include specific names of the authors who have made significant contribution to the research such as the idea of the research, writing, design, implementation. One of the authors must be a coordinator to be in contact with the journal. Finally, the researcher should be granted a final approval for the final version of the submitted research to publication (the pledge).
- Disclosure and Conflict–of–Interests
Researchers are required to disclose financial support provided for them or any other kind of support. In addition, researchers are required to reveal any financial conflicts or issues that may affect the research interpretations or results.
- Fundamental Mistakes in Published Researches
The researcher is committed to notify the editor or the publisher in case of misstatements in the body text of their researches in order to do the needed corrections in typing in the intended forms. In case of finding significant errors or inaccuracy in the published research, the researcher is committed to inform and cooperate with the editor of the journal or the publisher to undo or correct their misprinted researches form.
