1- Organizational support and submission of articles to more than one journal
The submitted article or its content should not have been previously published in a journal or sent to another journal at the same time, and if accepted, the journal should not be published elsewhere.
The preparation of the article should be free from any immoral acts, including falsification of data, distortion of facts, plagiarism in presenting analysis or conducting experiments and examining the opinions of others, or in expressing the results of research. If members of the editorial board have doubts about the observance of ethical matters, the author is allowed to respond to their accusations and request a thorough and prompt investigation.
Any financial support or equipment of the article should be mentioned.
2- Author
The list of authors should indicate exactly who did the research and who wrote the article. Only the responsible author is allowed to contact the journal office.
If the author or authors do not request that the article not be judged by a specific person or persons, the editorial board should mention this issue in the selection of its preferred referees.
All authors are allowed to appeal the decisions of the editorial board.
All authors should report their errors and corrections to the journal office.
All authors and reviewers must state the extent to which their interests conflict with the particular article in question.
3- Criteria considered by the editorial board and arbitration
All submitted articles will be judged by two judges without their knowledge of the authors.
Editorial members should never be involved in editorial decisions about their work.
The editorial board should ask the arbitrators to state their status if there is a conflict of interest with the article they have received for arbitration, and it should also ask the arbitrators to refuse to accept the arbitration if unfair arbitration is possible.
Editorial staff, authors, and judges are responsible for declaring their interests that may affect the presentation and objective review of the data. This includes matters relating to finance (for example, proprietary ownership, stock ownership, consulting rights, remuneration), , Personal, political, intellectual rights, or religious interests.
4- Criteria for accuracy and independence of the magazine
If possible, errors in the interpretation of data and information, the journal is obliged to publish corrections.
The magazine tries to maintain its independence. Its policy is to protect the editorial board, its decisions and opinions in the face of compromise for financial and commercial interests or to make arrangements for the advertising apparatus.
"This journal is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws”.
International Publishing Ethics Committee (COP)
Koop is a forum for discussion and exchange between editors, reviewers of prestigious scientific journals and experts in the field. The committee started in 1997 with a small group of editors of medical journals in the UK and now has about 9,000 members from all over the world in all disciplines, and membership is possible for editors of journals and other interested people. Many of the world's major publishers are members of Cope, including Elsevier, Wiley – Blackwell, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Palgrave Macmillan, and Wolters Kluwer.
Cope has developed guidelines and recommendations for journal editors, publishers, and reviewers that they can use and act on when dealing with a variety of research misconduct. Koop has annual seminars as well as e-training for novice editors.
Recommendations for judges and editors have been prepared in order to observe the principle of fidelity, fairness and arbitration without prejudice and away from the purpose, etc., and their observance by these people as influential people in reducing violations in the field of research is very important. Details of these regulations can be seen in this link.
The committee provides diagrammatic guidelines for editors and judges on how they can behave when confronted with all types of research misconduct. You can see these diagrams in this link. A useful part of these charts has also been translated into Persian and placed on the Cope website, which can be accessed and used in this link.
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