Publication Ethics
Publication Ethics for the International Journal of Advanced Engineering Technologies and Innovations (IJAEIT)
Introduction
The International Journal of Advanced Engineering Technologies and Innovations (IJAEIT) is committed to maintaining high ethical standards in all aspects of publication. The following guidelines are intended to ensure that all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, reviewers, and editors, adhere to ethical principles.
1. Authorship
- Originality: Authors must ensure that their work is original and has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
- Contribution: All authors must have made significant contributions to the work and must be able to justify their inclusion as authors.
- Corresponding Author: The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all authors have agreed to the submission and that all questions related to the work are directed to the corresponding author.
2. Reviewers
- Confidentiality: Reviewers must maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and must not discuss the work with anyone other than the editors.
- Objectivity: Reviewers must provide objective and unbiased reviews of the submitted work.
- Expertise: Reviewers must have the necessary expertise to review the submitted work.
- Disclosure: Reviewers must disclose any potential conflicts of interest, such as personal relationships with authors or financial ties to the institutions involved in the research.
3. Editors
- Fairness: Editors must ensure that all submissions are treated fairly and are considered based on their merit.
- Impartiality: Editors must be impartial and must not allow their personal opinions to influence the decision-making process.
- Confidentiality: Editors must maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and must not discuss the work with anyone other than the reviewers and authors.
- Disclosure: Editors must disclose any potential conflicts of interest, such as personal relationships with authors or financial ties to the institutions involved in the research.
4. Ethical Considerations
- Plagiarism: Authors must not plagiarize the work of others. Plagiarism includes copying text, ideas, or data from other sources without proper attribution.
- Falsification and Fabrication: Authors must not falsify or fabricate data. Falsification involves manipulating data to fit a predetermined outcome, while fabrication involves inventing or creating data that does not exist.
- Redundant Publication: Authors must not submit the same work to multiple journals or publishers simultaneously.
- Salami Slicing: Authors must not break up a large study into smaller, unrelated studies to increase the number of publications.
- Self-Citation: Authors should not excessively self-cite their own work.
- Conflict of Interest: Authors must disclose any potential conflicts of interest, such as financial ties to the institutions involved in the research.
5. Editorial Responsibilities
- Publication Decisions: The editors are responsible for making the final decision on whether or not to accept a manuscript for publication.
- Review Process: The editors must ensure that all submissions undergo a rigorous and fair review process.
- Retraction Policy: The editors have a policy in place for retracting papers that have been found to be plagiarized, fabricated, or falsified.
- Appeal Process: The editors have a procedure for handling appeals from authors who disagree with the decision to reject their manuscript.
6. Compliance with COPE Guidelines
The IJAEIT adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines for Best Practice in Journal Editorials. These guidelines provide a framework for ethical publishing practices and address issues such as authorship, peer review, plagiarism, and conflicts of interest.
7. Conclusion
The IJAEIT is committed to upholding the highest ethical standards in all aspects of publication. We believe that these guidelines will help to ensure that the journal publishes high-quality, original, and ethical research.