We strongly support upholding the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) ideals and are oppose any form ofresearch misconduct. A lot of focus is placed on making sure the papers are original and preventing plagiarism.Please review our Plagiarism statement for more information. Norms for research misconduct: 1. Allegations regarding the authorship of contributions. According to our journal policy, all authors who have contributed to the manuscript must be listed in the Cover Letter form submitted with the manuscript. To be deemed an author, a person must be accountable for a specific aspect of the research, such as preparing the work, or making a unique addition to the idea, project, or research explanation. Any such contribution must be acknowledged in the final work form. However, a small contribution might not be counted as authorship. Authors and co-authors may designate someone as a contributor and acknowledge them in the paper’s acknowledgement section even if their contribution is small, their data is appropriate or they provide some other kind of assistance. As per our policy, authors and co-authors of submitted papers must complete the Cover Letter form to identify all contributors and affirm their approval for the paper’s publication. 2. Duplicate submission/publication. This refers to the practice of submitting or publishing essentially the same study in two journals, either simultaneously or years apart. 3. Redundant publication (known as “salami publishing”). It refers to the practice of submitting separate portions of one study to two or more journals, or disclosing results that have already been published elsewhere without the required citations, approval, or justification. The practice of “self-plagiarism” is also regarded as a form of redundant publication, where an author reuses or appropriates ideas from earlier works without properly attributing them. This behaviour could be inadvertent, and the information required to evaluate an author’s usage of previously published material is typically provided by the author’s disclosure of such use. 4. Citation manipulation. Citation manipulation refers to the following types of behaviour:
5. Data fabrication is the use of knowingly implausible data in the research process, the deliberate discovery of research results, the use of unreliable information in the process of data collection or data processing. It also includes referencing non-existent publications or distorting bibliographic information. 6. Falsification involves manipulating of research data by violating equipment parameters used in the process of conducting research, biased data correction during processing, setting individual data in the process of the experiment to obtain desired results. Academic plagiarism applies to all types of sources, including texts, drawings, fragments, mathematical expressions and transformations, program codes, etc. Plagiarism sources can be published or unpublished books, articles, theses, manuscripts, etc. The following main types of academic plagiarism are distinguished:
Other types of research violations In addition to plagiarism, there are a number of cases in which the action is recognised as research misconduct:
Procedure for handling allegations of research misconduct If ethical violations are detected during submission, review or publication of the manuscript, the editorial board applies the following procedure:
You can learn more about the complaints procedure here. In the event of a violation of the Research misconduct policy, such additional sanctions may be imposed:
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