Publication Ethics

Agreement upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editors, the peer reviewers, and the publisher. (The following ethic statements are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, including Allegations of misconduct, Appeals process, Complaints process, Conflicts of interest, Peer review process, Author guidelines, Copyright, Archiving, and Data repository).

Duties of Editors (PDF file)

Publication decision

Fair play

Confidentiality

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Involvement and cooperation in investigations

Duties of the Publisher

We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint, or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, we will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful to editors. Finally, we are working closely with other publishers and industry associations to set standards for best practices on ethical matters, errors and retractions--and are prepared to provide specialized legal review and counsel if necessary.

The following are the standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in publishing in JONASS: 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, Meybod Branch and the publication charge is requested only from Iranian authors.

Journal of JONASS is committed to delivering high-quality research results in the field of nature and spatial sciences therefore all submissions will be peer reviewed. Journal of JONASS adopts the following statement for guidelines on publication ethics.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you find any work published in the Journal of JONASS. potentially violates the publication jonass.um20@gmail.com 

Duties of the editor and editorial board:

• Publication decisions: the editor of the Journal of JONASS 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 the 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 behavior 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 behavior 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 behavior and is unacceptable.
• Acknowledgment 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 in 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. Authors indicate that retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.
• 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 dumping, 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 severe 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. An explanation must be given about the circumstances of removal or withdrawal. Readers are also directed to the sections in this article that 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 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 is allowed if Appropriate attribution and citation should be considered while using tables, charts, questionnaires, or texts. In the case of using or paraphrasing texts or ideas, a citation is necessary.

NOTE: Self-plagiarism should be avoided due to the copyright issue of the original publication.

-All researchers have the responsibility to report any conduct that they believe in good intentions, is misconduct to the relevant institutional authority.

-Editors-in-chief have to check manuscripts for any kind of error.

CC BY

To grow the commons of free knowledge and free culture, all users are required to grant broad permissions to the general public to re-distribute and re-use their contributions freely. Therefore, for any text, figures, or other work in any medium you hold the copyright to, by submitting it, you agree to license it under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 

Repository and Archive Policy

 Using a Creative Commons license, authors will retain the copyright to their research, granting Islamic Azad University the non-exclusive right to openly publish their research online and deposit it in major indexes such as Google Scholar. Archives and repositories are iau, sana, and Google Scholar. 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. 

The journal published by Meybod Branch, Islamic Azad University follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)