Publication Ethics

The journal encourages the authors to consider the following ethical responsibilities of an author. It is requested to involve all the authors in the peer-review. All authors must acknowledge the correctness of the data contained in the knowledgeable paper. The author is obligated to correct and review all errors in the scientific paper. The authors must submit original research that has been published before elsewhere. Proper citations must be placed for previous works. The research should not violate the intellectual property rights of other authors.

Ethical approval

Authors of research involving humans must include a statement that confirms that the study was approved by the appropriate ethics committee with reference number, if available, in their submission. If a study was granted exemption or did not require ethics approval, this should also be stated in the manuscript.

 

Subject consent

Subjects’ confidential information and privacy should not be infringed under any circumstances. Informed consent must be obtained from subjects participating in any experiments that clearly grants permission for the publication of photographs or other material that might identify them. If the consent form for your research did not specifically include this, please obtain it or remove the identifying material. Identifying details (written or photographic) should be omitted if they are not essential, but subject data should never be altered or falsified in an attempt to attain anonymity. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of subjects is inadequate protection of anonymity. When informed consent has been obtained, it should be indicated in the submitted article.

Permissions

Authors must seek permission from the copyright owner(s) to reproduce any materials such as figures, tables, or text passages in your article that have already been published elsewhere. It is mandatory to submit proper documentation of this permission when submitting articles. The granting of permission should be acknowledged alongside the material (e.g., legend of a figure) in the submitted article. Without such proof, it will be considered that any provided materials belong to the authors.

If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

 

Authorship

To be credited as an author of any publication, the author must have significant contributions to the idea or design of the work, or to the collection, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work, or writing the manuscript and critically editing it for key intellectual substance.

According to the ICMJE, authorship can be granted based on the four following criteria:

• Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
• Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
• Final approval of the version to be published; AND
• Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Therefore, contributors credited as authors must understand that they are taking the responsibility and being accountable for what is published. Therefore, authors must give consent to take responsibility for all aspects of the work in order to guarantee that any concerns about the accuracy or integrity of any portion of the work are thoroughly investigated and addressed.

 

Ethical consideration of the editor

The journal editorial will consider all the judgements made by reviewers will be objective. The reviewers will deal with the submitted manuscripts that have been reviewed in strict confidence. The review process will reflect the values of fairness and impartiality. All reviewers will alert the editor if any potential competing interest that might affect their review process. The editor has the full responsibility and authority to reject or accept the research. The editor always considers meeting the needs of the reader and the author. The editor will not reject the submission when its sure of the content. The selection of reviewers by the editor will be confidential and the details of the reviewer will not be disclosed. The editor will ensure all the ethical considerations related with the journal policy.

 

Plagiarism Check

The Journal takes issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism, or other breaches of best practices in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of the authors and we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles are checked using related software. Any article found to have plagiarized other work will be rejected.