Publication Ethics
The following are the standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in publishing in Journal of Nuts: the author, the journal editor and editorial board, the peer reviewer and the publisher.
Sources of Support
The financial source of the journal is supported by Islamic Azad University, Damghan Branch and the publication charge is requested only from Iranian authors.
Journal of Nuts is committed to delivering high-quality research results in the field of nut fruit trees and related sciences to the world and therefore all submissions will be peer reviewed, nut. Journal of Nuts adopts the following statement for guidelines on publication ethics.
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Duties of the editor and editorial board:
- Publication decisions: the editor of the Journal of Nuts is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published and the editorial board makes the final decision about the articles to be published. The editor is guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may consult with editorial board or reviewers in decision making.
- Fair play: an 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.
- Confidentiality: the 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, as appropriate.
Duties of Reviewers:
- Contribution to Editorial Decisions: peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
- Promptness: any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.
- Confidentiality: any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others.
- Standards of Objectivity: reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
- Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
Duties of Authors:
- Reporting standards: authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.
- Originality and Plagiarism: the authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism takes many forms, from ‘passing off’ another’s paper as the author’s own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
- Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication: an author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
- Acknowledgement of Sources: proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work involved in these services.
- Authorship of the Paper: authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
- Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: all authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
- Fundamental errors in published works: when an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper
Withdrawal of Article
Withdrawal or removal of articles is strongly discouraged. The practice of removal, deletion, or obscuring of an article or part of an article should be limited to circumstances such as:
- Legal infringements, defamation, or other legal limitations
- False or inaccurate data, especially those that if acted upon could pose a serious health risk.
Even in these circumstances, a retraction statement must still be published to ensure that bibliographic information about the removed article is retained for the scientific record, and an explanation must be given about the circumstances of removal or withdrawal. Readers are also directed to the sections in this article which discuss Retractions and Expressions of Concern.
Our publication ethics statement is mainly based on the Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (Committee on Publication Ethics, 2011).
Research Misconduct
Fabrication, Falsification and Plagiarism whether are done knowingly or not are against our ethical codes.
Fabrication:Creating data or results and recording or reporting them while pretending they are original.
Falsification:Managing research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the Research Record.
Plagiarism:Deliberate Interference which may intentionally cause material harm to the research or scholarly work of others, and may include damaging or destroying the property of authors, such as research equipment or supplies; disrupting active experiments; or altering or deleting products of research, including data. Avoidance of revealing the side effects of clinical trials.
-Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit. It ranges from the unreferenced use of others’ published and unpublished ideas, including research grant applications to submission under “new” authorship of a complete paper, sometimes in a different language.
-Plagiarism can occur when texts are being cut and pasted without suitable attribution.
-Using others’ published ideas are allowed if: Appropriate attribution and citation should be considered while using tables, charts, questionnaires or texts. In case of using or paraphrasing texts or ideas, citation is necessary.
NOTE: Self-plagiarism should be avoided due to the copyrights issue of the original publication.
-All researchers have the responsibility to report any conduct that they believe in good intention, is a misconduct to the relevant institutional authority.
-Editors-in-chief have to check manuscripts for any kind of error.
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The journal published by Damghan Branch, Islamic Azad University follow the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and adhere to its Best Practice Guidelines.