Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The publication of peer-reviewed papers in the journal requires continuous work, responsibility, liability, and collaboration from all involved parties: authors, reviewers, chief editor, managing editors, associate editors, editors, and board members. The chief editor/ Managing editors have the responsibility of keeping/monitoring the publishing ethics and maintaining the academic record. The Editorial office assumes its responsibility for verifying the articles of fraudulent data or plagiarism. The editorial team goal is to maintain the publication at the highest publication standards, implying: good quality, original, research-based articles, but also corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies, if needed. We appreciate the contributions of every involved party to the work that we publish.

 

Publication and Authorship:

All submitted papers to IJSAR are subject to a strict double-blind peer-review process.

The rejected articles are not being resent for reviewing.

The authors should provide all sources of data used in the research.

 

Authors’ Ethics and Responsibility

An author is a person who has a substantial contribution to the article; all other contributions should be mentioned as acknowledgments.

Authors must ensure that the submitted article is their original work, which has not been previously published.

Authors must ensure that the submitted article has not been considered for publication elsewhere.

Authors should cite only the articles which have contributed to their work; unnecessary citations should not be listed.

Authors should present their work as objectively as possible.

Arguments that discriminate people by race, sex, origin, religion, etc., are not accepted. Bogus results must not be given.

The authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.

The authors must report any errors in their published paper to the Chief Editor/ Editors.

Authors should provide the revised version of their article, according to the reviewers' recommendations.

Reviewers' responsibilities:

Maintaining the confidentiality of the complete review process.

Providing a detailed, constructive, and unbiased evaluation in a timely manner on the scientific content of the work.

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors

Notifying the journal editor about any financial or personal conflict of interest and declining to review the manuscript when a possibility of such a conflict exists.

Notifying the journal editor of any ethical concerns in their evaluation of submitted manuscripts; such as any violation of ethical treatment of animal or human subjects or any considerable similarity between the previously published article and any reviewed manuscript.

 

Chief Editor/ Editors' responsibilities

Editors decide which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published

Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication

Editors should evaluate manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit

Peer review assists the editors in making editorial decisions. Editors should publish only peer-reviewed accepted articles

Editors should have a clear picture of a research's funding sources

An editor must not use unpublished information in the editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Terms & Conditions Policy

We shall not take any accountability for the contents of articles published in the journal and all such liability shall lie with the author/s.

The opinions expressed in the articles are exclusively of the author/s and IJSAR may not agree with such opinions in part or in full. All the articles submitted for publication in IJSAR are peer-reviewed for genuineness, moral issues, and effectiveness. The decision of the reviewers shall be held final. Authors are solely responsible for the uniqueness of the published work. IJSAR shall advocate the highest ethical standards of scientific publications.