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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 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,
- forbidden to publish same research in more than one journal.
2.
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.
3.
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.
4.
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.
5.
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.
6.
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.
7.
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.
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