Publication ethics

Roles and Responsibilities of Editor

  1. Ensure that the manuscript has the highest possible quality based on recent academic progress by seeking opinions from at least 2 reviewers per article.
  2. Never expose information on author and reviewers of the article to unrelated outsiders during the evaluation period.
  3. Select articles for publication after finishing evaluation by considering how they conform to the policy of the journal and whether they have any risks to be charged with defamation, copyright infringement, or plagiarism.
  4. Never publish any articles that have already been published elsewhere.
  5. Have no conflict of interest with the author, reviewers, and the executive committee
  6. If plagiarism is detected during the evaluation of the article, editor must stop the evaluation process immediately and contact the author asking for explanation in order to decide whether the article should be published.
  7. Evaluate by focusing on the content of the article regardless of race, sexual identity, belief, faith, ethnic, and political opinion of the author.

Roles and Responsibilities of Reviewer

  1. Submit opinion on the article by due date providing comprehensible information to support the opinion.
  2. Protect confidentiality of documents under review by not exposing them to unrelated persons.
  3. If having realized that one has the conflict of interest with the author or other reasons that hinder one from expressing opinion/ giving advice freely, please notify the editorial team and refuse to evaluate the article.
  4. Inform the editorial team of possible plagiarism if the author has not properly cited the source of information when it comes from another person’s work or unpublished work.
  5. Notify the editorial team of in-sufficient expertise to evaluate the article.
  6. Suggest interesting research papers that are relevant to the article under review, but do not directly refer to paper written by the reviewer.

Roles and Responsibilities of the Author

  1. Certify that the work is original, has not been published anywhere else, and has not been submitted for publishing in other journals.
  2. Report the facts directly and straightforwardly without distorting data or using false data.
  3. Refer to the work of another researcher if using such work in one’s own research. This can be done by making the list of references at the end of the article.
  4. Write the article in the format recommended in the journal’s guidance.
  5. All co-authors whose names appear on the research paper must have participated in the process of the research production.
  6. Identify the source of research fund and notify if there is any conflict of interest.
  7. State that the research has been approved by specific research ethics committee. If it required no approval, please provide explanation.
  8. State protection of the rights of research participants/informants.
  9. Provide raw data if the editorial team requests.
  10. Notify the editorial team if any error/mistake significantly affected the research credibility, in order to defend retraction of the article.

Obtaining ethical committee approval

On the matter of getting approval from the ethical committee in case of human research, the author must clearly state when and where the research had been approved.