The
Journal ensures that all parties
involved in the act of publishing agree
upon the standards of expected ethical behaviour. Therefore
these parties: the author, the journal
editor, the peer reviewer and the
publisher should go
through such ethics during and
after the publication process. It is compulsory for them to agree upon standards of
expected
ethical
behavior.
The
ethic
statements are based
on COPE’s
Best
Practice
Guidelines for Journal
Editors.
Ethical
guidelines for Editors,
Reviewers and Authors
EDITORS
The
editor of the peer-reviewed Journal
should judge the manuscripts on the
basis of their academic merit. The editor should go through the policies of the Journal’s editorial
board. The editor should evaluate
manuscripts
without looking at the ethnic
origin, citizenship, or political
philosophy, race, gender, sexual
orientation, religious belief, of
the
authors.
Editor
should not use the unpublished work
submitted for publication, for personal
work and benefits without the written consent of the author. Board members/reviewers or members
of Journals/CIBTech must preserve the
confidentiality
of
the
unpublished
works.
The
editor
must
not
disclose
any
information
about
a
submitted
manuscript to anyone other than
the corresponding author, reviewers,
other editorial advisers, and the
publisher,
as
appropriate.
Editors
should
require
all
contributors
to
disclose
relevant
competing
interests
and
publish
corrections if competing interests
are revealed after
the publication of any article.
If required, other appropriate action
should
be taken, like the publication of
a retraction or expression of concern.
It must be ensured that the peer-review
process for sponsored supplements
is the same as that used for the main
journal. Items in sponsored supplements
should
be
accepted
on the
basis
of
academic merit
and not on the basis
of
commercial
benefits. Non-peer reviewed portion
of
their
journal
should
be
clearly
identified.
The
editor should make the enquiry whenever
any ethical complaint is made regarding
the submitted or published
paper. The editor should contact
the authors or relevant institution. If
the complaint is found genuine then the
paper can be asked for
correction, or even the published paper
can be cancelled no matter how late the
complaint
is raised.
REVIEWERS
Reviewers
must maintain the confidentiality of the
manuscript. Original ideas obtained
through peer review must be kept
confidential and not
used
for
personal
advantage.
Reviews
should
be
conducted
impartially,
and
observations should be formulated
clearly with supporting arguments, so
that authors can use them for improving
the
paper.
Any
referee whose academic/research work is
not related to the article submitted or
cannot spare time for quick review, must notify the editor and excuse him from the review
process. Reviewers should not consider
articles in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive,
collaborative, or other relationships
with any of
the
authors, companies, or
institutions
connected to the
articles.
Reviewers
should identify relevant references
those have not been cited by the
authors. A reviewer should also
bring
to the editor's attention any
substantial
similarity or
overlap between
the article under consideration and
any
other
published
article
of
which
they
have
personal
knowledge.
AUTHORS
The
authors should take the responsibility
that the work carried out, under the
submitted manuscript for the
Journal, is the original piece of
research work, performed as per the
appropriate prevailing professional
standards
of the scientific community.
Authors should present an objective
discussion of the significance of
research work as
well as sufficient detail and
references to permit others to replicate
the experiments. Fraudulent or knowingly
inaccurate
statements constitute unethical
behavior
and
are
unacceptable.
Authorship
must
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. People, who
have participated in certain substantive aspects of
the research project, should be
acknowledged or listed as contributors. The
corresponding author should ensure that all
co-authors have seen
and
approved
the
final
version
of
the paper and
have
agreed
to
its submission
for
publication.
Authors
should ensure that they have not infringed
any copyright or violated any other right of
any third parties in the manuscript. Authors must ensure that the images such as
diagrams, photographs, figures, graphs
submitted in the manuscript have been originally taken/drawn by them. Authors
should take necessary
permissions/acknowledge the source/cite the reference, if they have taken the images, text or
part of any data from some other sources.
Information obtained privately, as in
conversation, correspondence, or discussion
with third parties, must not be
used
or
reported
without
explicit,
written
permission
from
the
source.
Policy on Plagiarism:
We check the plagiarism of the submitted
article. Plagiarism can be reported to us as
soon as possible, so that the guilty authors
could be debarred from publishing for a
period of one year.
Policy on Retraction of
Articles:
Our Journals follow the COPE guidelines for
Retraction of articles. Detail can be seen
at the following web link:
http://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf.
Author should
not simultaneously submit the work to other
publisher for publication.
Authors must
assure that all the ethical norms have been
considered while performing the research. In
case of animal research
authors
must
ensure
that
they
have
taken
necessary
approval
from
the
concerned
ethical
committees such as CPCSEA for animal
research in India, (if/wherever applicable).
Authors must also ensure that
similar written permissions were
taken from the institute(s)/people (used as
experimental subjects) involved in the
research work. Author should take the
responsibilities if any controversies arise
out of the work being submitted
for
publication.
Though the
editorial and reviewing staff closely check
the article yet if any mistakes remain in
the text thus
submitted then author should be
responsible for the error. Therefore author
must submit the article carefully
checking
its
typographic
mistakes.
If
the authors discover
any
significant
error
or
inaccuracy in the
submitted/published work, it is the
authors’ obligation to promptly notify the
journal editor or publisher and
cooperate
with
the
editor
to
retract
or
correct
the
paper.
Author can
choose various open access licensing and
copyright options mentioned
under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License.
The
signing author(s) must
ensure
that
he/she/they has/have
full authority to
transfer the copyrights on behalf of
the co-authors. Detail about various
Creative
Commons Attribution License
has been given
in separate webpage available at this link
https://www.cibtech.org/JPS-Open-Access-License-Copyright.htm.
Authors
should disclose in their manuscript any
financial or other substantive conflict of
interest that might influence the results or
interpretation of their manuscript. All
sources of financial support for the
project
should
be
disclosed. |
