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PUBLICATION
ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT
IOTPE Organization
(ICTPE Conference, IJTPE Journal and
IETPE Enterprise)
International Journal on "Technical and Physical Problems
of Engineering" (IJTPE) is a multidisciplinary
peer-reviewed and high-quality scholarly journal
published quarterly and electronically by International Organization
of IOTPE that is dedicated to promot research in theoretical themes,
physical subjects and technical problems of Science, Technology and
Engineering.
The IJTPE
Journal has the publication ethics and malpractice statement containing
the following subjects:
1.
PUBLICATION AND AUTHORSHIP
The IJTPE Journal commits and protects the clear publication and
precise attribution of authorship criteria and rules as:
- provide the journal research areas,
- follow up the journal format,
-
check out the journal submission guidelines,
- acknowledge all contributed
authors,
- edit language of manuscript,
- organize the list of references,
- settle the financial support,
- provide no plagiarism,
- obtaine no fraudulent data,
- coordinate publication policy for details,
- unethical consider of ghost (non-named), guest (no
contribution) and gift (senior/affiliated) forms of
authorship,
-
not considering multiple submissions and redundant
publications,
- forbidden to publish same research in more than one journal,
- contribution of the
authors in conception or design; data acquisition and
analysis or interpretation,
- intellectual content development or critical review,
- final version approval and integrity.
2.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION ETHICS (COPE)
Aware of allegations of research misconduct relating to the
published papers in IOTPE Organization (ICTPE Conference,
IJTPE Journal, IETPE Enterprise), the guidelines of
Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE)
are followed in dealing with the allegations.
Guidelines for Publication Ethics following recommendations
of COPE to:
-
Authors'
Responsibilities
- Reviewers'
Responsibilities
- Editorial
Responsibilities
- Publisher's
Responsibilities
3.
AUTHORS' RESPONSIBILITIES
The IJTPE Journal commits and protects the authors' responsibilities as:
- the authors' obligation to participate in
in peer review and authorship processes based on
their signed Copyright Form and Permission Form considering the Journal Publication Policy (www.iotpe.com/IJTPE/PublicationPolicy.html),
- all the authors have significantly contributed to the research,
- the statement that all data in the submitted manuscript are real and authentic,
- the authors' obligation to provide retractions or corrections of
mistakes.
4.
PEER REVIEW AND
REVIEWERS' RESPONSIBILITIES
The IJTPE Journal commits and protects the peer review and reviewers' responsibilities which is objective as:
- the judgments process of the submitted manuscript is objective,
- the reviewers have no conflict of interest with respect to the
research,
- the authors and/or the research funders, reviewers point out relevant
published work which is not yet cited,
- the reviewed manuscripts are treated confidentially.
5.
EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
The IJTPE Journal commits and protects the editorial responsibilities
as:
- the editors have complete responsibility and authority to
accept/reject the submitted manuscript,
- the editors have no conflict of interest with respect to the
accepted/rejected manuscript,
- the editors only accept the manuscript when reasonably certain and errors are
found and solved,
- the editors promote publication of correction or retraction,
- the editors preserve anonymity of the reviewers.
6.
PUBLISHER'S RESPONSIBILITIES
The IOTPE Organization as the Publisher of the IJTPE Journal is
responsible to collect and share with the IJTPE Journal Editors all
complains and appeals against the journal, staff, editorial board
and publisher.
7.
ARTICLE SUBMISSION AND PLAGIARISM
The IJTPE Journal commits and protects the manuscript submission
as:
- contain the journal standards and ethics,
- retrieve published manuscript as well as publish concern
statement and notify related organizations,
- evaluate dual submissions for
previously published in or simultaneously submitted manuscript,
- prevent redundant publication,
- record the communications and documents between authors,
editors and reviewers,
- check out plagiarism and originality of the submitted
manuscript,
- evaluate gained permissions of the perior publications or
reused texts, data, equations, figures and tables,
- investigate plagiarism of concepts, structures and
softwars used in the submitted article,
- reduce plagiarism of the manuscript around 5%,
- avoid publishing to harm the reputation of people and
organizations,
- prevent publishing of libellous, slanderous or defamatory
materials.
8.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
The IJTPE Journal commits and protects the conflicts of interest
as:
-
obligations of the
authors, editors and reviewers to avoid
any conflict (or potential conflict) of interest between the
authors as well as the third parties,
- submit the completion form between the authors to the
journal editors,
- define the relevant financial and non-financial
interests/supports and role of the research funders or
sponsors in the Acknowledgment section,
- avoid creating potential conflict of interest through
assignment of handling authors, editors and reviewers,
- select alternative reviewers to prevent the
potential conflict of interest between the authors and
editors.
9.
EDITING AND REVIEWING
The IJTPE Journal commits and protects the editing and reviewing
as:
- adhere to established principles of
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement,
- fully editorial independence from imposed strategies, processes
and policies of the
publishing partners,
- prevent to accept manuscripts for commercial or political
reasons,
- encourage authors, editors and reviewers to have clearly
defined processes and policies for handling of
contributions in the publication,
- support standard
editing procedure and
reviewing system based on the submission guidelines,
- reviewe the submitted manuscript by independent experts in
the relevant area,
- make a scientific assessment and efficient recommendations
to the authors and editors,
- keep unknown and confidence information system through the
authors, editors and
reviewers,
- maintaine complete confidentiality and privacy during
editing and reviewing procedures,
- obtaine multiple editing and reviewing procedures to the revised
manuscript,
- handle editors considerations on the reviewers comments
to make a final decision fairley to accept/reject the
manuscript.
10.
COMPLAINTS AND APPEALS
The IJTPE Journal commits and protects the complaints and appeals
as:
- submit complaints and/or appeals by email addressed in
Contacts,
- acknowledge and update complaints
and/or appeals within maximum 1 week of receipt,
-
forward the
complaint and/or appeals to the IJTPE Editor,
- Raise the matter with the IOTPE Publisher for further
investigation if the response to the complaints and/or
appeals are not satisfactory,
- follow up the guidelines of Committee On Publication
Ethics (COPE) in the complex cases.
11.
POST-PUBLICATION DISCUSSIONS AND CORRECTIONS
The IJTPE Journal commits and protects the post-publication
discussions and corrections
as:
- submit
correction,
retraction
or removal
notices
to indicate the incorrect elements
when they are required
for
the published papers,
-
make the corrections
within maximum 1 week
after
pubication,
-
address minor corrections or changes related to spelling,
phrasing or data,
-
issue
retraction notices and make the actions for major, incorrect
and unreliable materials in the published papers as well as
link the Publisher Note to the paper
considering
guidelines of COPE,
-
issue notices
for
the critical published papers
and
make removals
from the publishing list in the case of false copyright or
contents
as well as link the Publisher Note considering
guidelines of COPE.
12.
DATA SHARING AND REPRODUCIBILITY
The IJTPE Journal commits and protects the data sharing and
reproducibility
as:
- share processed information via open access published
papers,
-
facilitating access to research
materials
by enabling reproducibility,
- publish
resulted
data, algorithms, methods, and analysis.
13.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The IJTPE Journal commits and protects the intellectual property
as:
- retain the copyright of the published papers by the
authors,
- grant the ability to disseminate the published paper by
the IOTPE Organization,
- dissiminate process is under
Creative
Commons (CC) License
described in the Publication Policy page.
14.
ETHICAL OVERSIGHT
The IJTPE Journal commits and protects the ethical oversight
as:
- perform the research including human subjects according to
the declaration of Helsinki,
- submit ethic statement for the
research including human subjects,
- follow up the institutional policies of the research
ethics by the authors,
- comment ethical problems of the submitted papers to the
Publisher by the peer reviewers.
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