3. Publication ethics

The ethical policies of this journal are based on the principles of the International Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) and in compliance with the ethical charter of publications drawn up by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Also, Yazd University Publications Office has full supervision over all the articles published in this university, and all the publications are required to comply with the ethical principles of the International Publication Committee and the policies of the university in this regard. Authors, reviewers, scientific directors and editors must observe these ethical principles when working with this journal.

An explanation of the principles of the International Committee on Publishing Ethics is available at the following address:

http://publicationethics.org

Duties of the publisher, editor-in-chief, scientific director, reviewers and authors

Duties of the publisher:

1. This publication ensures that the decisions made on the submitted transcripts are based only on expert and professional judgments and are far from personal interests.
2. This publication is committed to safeguarding the academic and research records.
3. This publication ensures that the ethical principles are practiced by the editor-in-chief, scientific directors, editorial board, and judges.
4. This publication always checks the articles against plagiarism, fraud and possible misconduct.
5. This publication will make corrections, explanations, and withdrawals when needed.
6. This publication will deal with any misconduct if it is proved.

 

Duties of the editor-in-chief and the scientific director:

1. The scientific directors of this journal must keep the submitted transcripts confidential until publication.
2. The editor, scientific directors and referees make reasonable decisions regarding the publication or non-publishing of a transcript.
3. The scientific directors of this publication must maintain the principle of referee impartiality.
4. The scientific directors of this publication must avoid conflict of interests.
5. The scientific directors of this publication are required to maintain scientific security safety and try to meet the scientific needs of their readers.
6. The scientific director of this publication identify possible plagiarism and fraud cases and provide corrections, explanations, withdrawals and apologies if necessary.
7. The scientific directors of this publication should focus only on rational contents.
8. The scientific directors of this journal should not disclose the information of the transcripts to people other than the authors, the responsible author and the referees.
9. Unpublished transcripts will not be used by any journal member for personal purposes.

 

Duties of reviewers:

1. The reviewers of this publication should cooperate with the scientific director to make decisions regarding the publication of the submitted transcripts.

 

2. The reviewers invited to this publication must try to keep the submitted transcripts confidential.
3. The reviewers must provide their opinions to the scientific director to make a decision regarding the publishing or non-publishing of transcripts within due time.
4. Peer reviewers are required to keep the submitted transcripts confidential and not to use their information for personal purposes.
5. The opinions of the reviewers regarding the submitted transcripts should be technical and specialized.
6. Reviewers should not process a manuscript in which there is a conflict of interests with one of the authors, companies or institutions.
7. Reviewers must disclose any conflict of interests.

 

Duties of authors:

1. Transcripts must be sent with correct spelling and appropriate terminology.

 

2. Transcripts must not have been published elsewhere (except as an abstract or part of a lecture, review article, or dissertation) or be under review by another journal.
3. The corresponding author must ensure the consent of the co-authors.
4. The authors must obtain the permission of the institution to which the submitted transcript belongs.
5. One of the conditions for sending transcripts is that the authors give permission to edit it for more readability.
6. Authors are expected to brief the sponsor for conducting and preparing the research process.
7. The ethical commitment form must be signed by the authors.
8. In open-access publications, the authors have the right to own their article, but they also allow the public to download, print, and distribute their articles.
9. All the authors of a manuscript must agree that the corresponding author will be responsible for subsequent review processes after the manuscript is submitted.
10. When the author or authors of a manuscript see an important error in the work, the scientific editor of the journal should immediately be inform of it so as to correct it.
11. Since plagiarism is considered as a serious and unethical act, all the authors should know that the transcripts sent to this journal may be analyzed by plagiarism software.
12. All the authors should read the process of submitting a manuscript to this journal.

 

Examples of violations of the ethical principles by authors:

1. Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the deliberate use of someone else's articles or ideas in one’s name. Even using another person's sentence or one’s own previous sentences without citing the source is considered plagiarism. All the manuscripts submitted to this journal are reviewed by a plagiarism software program.
2. Data fabrication and distortion: Data fabrication occurs when a researcher does not actually conduct a study but presents some data and conclusions. Misrepresentation also occurs when a research is done but the data and results are changed.
3. Simultaneous submission: It is the submission of a transcript to two or more journals.
4. Duplicate submission: This occurs when two or more articles have the same assumptions, data and results.
5. Repetitive (additional) submission: It means dividing a study into multiple articles and sending them.
6. Improper attribution of another author: All the authors listed in an article must have contributed to it.
7. Manipulation of sources: Several sources are mentioned in the final part of a transcript, while they are not mentioned in the body of the text.

"Click here to view the chart of the "COPE" Publishing Ethics Committee in Persian language".