Responsibilities of the people in charge
Goal of the journal is to publish the pure scientific achievement in a very short time, considering such remarks as quality, privacy and impartiality.
Responsibility of authors
Originality: Authors should provide manuscripts which are original and useful for the advancement of the society and considered as a contribution to related subject.
Co-authoring: Corresponding author should respect the right of co-author involved in the production of the manuscript.
Copyright: Author should be faithful to the copyright principles and should follow the ethical consideration in citation, referencing, etc.
Manuscripts submitted should not be either published in another journal or be in the process of publication
Manuscript origin:
Author(s) should declare in case manuscript is taken from dissertation, thesis and research plan, etc.
Financial Support
Aauthor(s) should declare in case the research, of which manuscript extracted from, has been financially supported.
Author should inform the journal as soon as he/she finds a mistake and he/she should try correct it as soon as possible
The study first laid out ten different types of plagiarism, duplication and authorship issues. It then provided a brief definition of each one. Those types included:
- Secondary Source: When a researcher uses a secondary source but only cites primary sources.
- Invalid Source: Citing incorrect or nonexistent sources.
- Duplication: When a researcher uses work from their own previous studies without attribution.
- Paraphrasing: Rewriting another person’s words but making it appear that the idea or even the research was original
- Repetitive Research: Taking data or text from a similar study without attribution.
- Replication: Submitting a single paper to multiple publications hoping to get it published more than once.
- Misleading Attribution: Providing inaccurate or insufficient author information on a paper.
- Unethical Collaboration: Working together with other researchers in an unethical way.
- Verbatim: The copying and pasting of words without attribution.
- Complete: Submitting another researcher’s paper as your own in whole.