Publication Ethics

Journal of Emerging Trends in Scientific Research(JOETSR) are dedicated to following best practices on ethical matters, errors and retractions. JOETSR follows all the ethical principles of scholarly open access publishing to ensure and maintain public trust in the research published for the benefit of humanity and research development. It is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for the authors, editors, reviewers and publisher. These standards are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Editorial Board

Editorial board will be generated from recognized experts in the field. The editor will provide full names and affiliations of the members as well as updated contact information for the editorial office on the journal webpage.

Publication decisions

The editor should be responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Peer review process

All of a journal’s content should be subjected to peer-review. Articles submitted for possible publication are subjected to a double-blind, peer review process. Articles are first reviewed by editors. The editor may reject it out of hand either because it is not dealing with the subject matter for that journal or because it is manifestly of a low quality so that it cannot be considered at all. Articles that are found suitable for review are then sent to two experts in the field of the paper. Referees of a paper are unknown to each other. Referees are asked to classify the paper as publishable immediately, publishable with amendments and improvements, or not publishable. Referees’ evaluations usually include an explicit recommendation of what to do with the manuscript. Referees’ comments are then seen by the author.

Editors should be ready to justify any important deviation from the described process. Editors should not reverse decisions on publication unless serious problems are identified.

Editors should publish guidance to either authors or reviewers on everything that is expected of them. This guidance should be regularly updated and will refer or link this code.

Fair play

Editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors. Editors´ decision to accept or reject a paper for publication should be based only on the paper´s importance, originality and clarity, and the study´s relevance to the aim of journal.

Digital Archiving

The editor will ensure digital preservation of access to the journal.

Confidentiality

Editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher. Editors will ensure that material submitted remains confidential while under review.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Editors should recuse themselves (i.e. should ask a co-editor, associate editor or other member of the editorial board instead to review and consider) from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers. Editors should require all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections if competing interests are revealed after publication.

Procedures for dealing with unethical behaviour: Unethical behaviour may be identified and brought to the attention of the editor and publisher at any time, by anyone. Whoever informs the editor or publisher of such conduct should provide sufficient information and evidence in order for an investigation to be initiated. All allegations should be taken seriously and treated in the same way, until a successful decision or conclusion is reached. Every reported act of unethical publishing behavior must be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication.

The editor should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper, in conjunction with the publisher. Such measures will generally include contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration of the respective complaint or claims made, but may also include further communications to the relevant institutions and research bodies, depending on the misconduct seriousness. Minor misconduct might be dealt with without the need to consult more widely. In any event, the author should be given the opportunity to respond to any allegations.

Serious misconduct might require application of one or more following measures:

  • Informing or educating the author or reviewer where there appears to be a misunderstanding or misapplication of acceptable standards.
  • Publication of a formal notice detailing the misconduct.
  • A formal letter to the head of the author’s or reviewer’s department or funding agency.
  • Formal retraction or withdrawal of a publication from the journal, in conjunction with informing the head of the author or reviewer’s department
  • Imposition of a formal embargo on contributions from an individual for a defined period.

Duties of Editors:

  • Editors of Journal of Emerging Trends in Scientific Research(JOETSR) Journal have the complete authority to accept / request modification or reject the manuscripts based on the overall reviewers’ decision.
  • Editors must ensure that the initial screening and plagiarism checking is performed for each manuscript submitted.
  • Editors, editorial board member, reviewers and editorial support team must ensure that any information regarding manuscripts submitted by the authors is kept confidential.
  • Editors must not use any unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript in an editor’s own research work without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers :

  • Reviewers must ensure that any information regarding manuscripts submitted by the authors is kept confidential.
  • Declare any conflict of interest where reviewers are able to identify authors or research project
  • Notify the editor if, for any reason, it is not possible to carry out reviewing duties in the due time.
  • Reviewers must ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources of data used in the research. Any sort of similarity or cover between the original copies under thought or with some other paper of which reviewers has individual information must be quickly conveyed to the editor’s notice.
  • Ensure that the feedback provided by you is constructive and fair. Reviewers should provide their feedback with supporting arguments.

Duties of Authors :

  • The submitted manuscript must be the original work of the author.
  • The submitted manuscript has not been previously published and is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere. Author should ensure that the same research work will not publish in more than one journal.
  • The other works should be cited in proper way indicating sources of the same.
  • Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to conception, design, execution or interpretation of the reported study. Others who have made significant contribution must be listed as co-authors. Authors also ensure that all the authors have read and approved the final version submitted
  • If the authors discover any serious mistake in his/her own published manuscript, it is the author’s duty to notify the concerned journal promptly and cooperate to correct it.
  • Sources of funding and any conflicts of interest should be notified to the Journal.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the act of taking another person’s published articles, conversation or even idea and treating it as your own. This includes part or whole information from web pages, books, email messages, interviews, articles and artworks etc. Even with citation, copying huge mass of text authored by others is not admissible. Whenever you take information from other’s work, it is necessary to indicate the source of the information within your manuscript with proper citation and inclusion of the source in the reference section. Our authors are required to take extreme care in avoiding any form of plagiarism. Plagiarism is against the professional ethics, it is our responsibility to avoid plagiarism.

Retraction Policy

Journal of Emerging Trends in Scientific Research(JOETSR) will take necessary action when plagiarism has been found to have occurred according to the type of plagiarism. All the authors of the concerned manuscript are individually and collectively responsible for the plagiarism. JOETSR has a separate team for this type of investigation, they are responsible for the investigation of each claim of plagiarism at the highest priority for resolution and action.

Author(s) agree to the following terms.

  • Author(s) will hold the copyright of their manuscript.
  • The submitted manuscript is original and it is the author’s work.
  • This manuscript has not been published in the same form elsewhere.
  • The manuscript is not being considered for publication elsewhere.
  • All authors of this research paper have directly participated in the planning, execution, or analysis of this study. They have read and approved the final version submitted and take public responsibility for the work.
  • A copyright permission is obtained for materials published elsewhere and which require this permission for reproduction. The manuscript does not violate any existing copyright.
  • The final published version can be archived in institutional or other repositories.

Open Access Policy

Journal of Emerging Trends in Scientific Research(JOETSR) is a well-established and notable venue for publishing high quality research papers. JOETSR is a refereed open access international journal for publishing scientific papers.

This is an open access journal which means that all contents are freely available without any fee from the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Permission is granted to make digital or hard copies of part or all of its work for personal, research and classroom use without any fee provided that the copies bear the full citation on the first page. Abstracting with credit is permitted.