Publication Ethics

Introduction

Academic Journals require all authors to adhere to the ethical standards prescribed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Authorship

Inclusion or exclusion of a person who does not meet the authorship requirement as specified by the editorial checklists is a violation of this publication's ethics.

Plagiarism

'The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own' Oxford Dictionaries

Submitted manuscripts should be the original works of the author(s). Academic Journals will follow the COPE guidelines in suspected cases of plagiarism. All submitted manuscripts will be checked by reputable, premium plagiarism software.

We use Turnitin to check for plagiarism before the manuscript is published to ensure the level is below or equal to 20%.

Duplicate manuscripts

"Duplicate publication is publication of a paper that overlaps substantially with one already published, without clear, visible reference to the previous publication" ICMJE Overlapping Publications, It is unethical for authors to submit a manuscript to more than one journal at the same time, either within Academic Journals or any other journal. This includes submitting manuscripts derived from the same data so there are no substantial differences. Duplicate submission also includes the submission of the same/similar manuscript in different languages to different journals.

Fabrication and falsification of data

Fabrication, manipulation, or falsification of data violates this publication's ethics. Academic Journals will follow the COPE guidelines in suspected cases of fabrication and falsification of data.

Citations manipulation

Authors should use only citations that are relevant to their manuscripts. Adding references that do not apply to the work is strongly discouraged. Irrelevant self-citations to increase one's citations are unethical. Unnecessary citation of articles for the sole purpose of "increasing" the articles' citation is unethical. Unnecessary citation of articles from a particular journal to "increase" the journal citation is unethical