Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi

Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi

Publication Ethics

Journal of Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi, concerning the rules of ethics in publishing, follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. Readers, authors, reviewers, and editors should follow these ethical policies when working with the journal.  For information on this matter in publishing and ethical guidelines, please visit http://publicationethics.org.

 

General Policies
  • The publishing decision is based on the suggestion of the journal's reviewers and editorial board members. 
  • The ethical policy insisted that the editor-in-chief may confer with other editors or reviewers to make the decision. 
  • The journal accepts research articles that contain new scientific findings and does not accept published articles based on a collection of data or translation.
  • The reviewers must evaluate the research papers based on the submitted content in a confidential manner. 
  • The reviewers also suggest the authors improve the quality of the research paper through their reviewing comments. 
  • Authors should ensure that their submitted research work is original and has not been published elsewhere in any language.
  • Applicable copyright laws and conventions should be followed by the authors.
  • Any plagiarism constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.  
  • For the sustainability and development of the specialized review process, qualified authors are invited to participate in the review process of other articles in this journal.

Obligations and Responsibilities

Publisher responsibilities
  • The publisher should ensure that editorial decisions on manuscript submissions are final, only made based on professional judgment, and will not be affected by commercial interests.
  • The publisher should monitor the ethics of the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Editorial Board Members, Reviewers, Authors, and Readers.
  • The publisher is always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, and retractions involving its publications as and when needed.

 

Editorial Responsibilities

(https://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_1.pdf)

  • The editorial team should have the full authority to reject/accept a manuscript.
  • The editorial team should maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts under review or until publication.
  • The editorial team should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
  • Any conflicts of interest should be declared and attempted to be prevented by the editorial team.
  • The editorial team should be willing to investigate plagiarism and fraudulent data issues and publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when necessary.
  • The editorial team must maintain the confidentiality of the content of the submitted articles until their publication.

 

Reviewers’ Responsibilities  

(https://publicationethics.org/files/u7140/Peer%20review%20guidelines.pdf)

  • Confidentiality of article information must be observed in all areas. The article review process is to be done anonymously.
  • Reviewers should judge articles at the appropriate time and assist the editorial team in deciding whether or not to accept the article.
  • The referees' suggestions regarding the published articles should be submitted as judging forms and in the comment section for the author and editor.
  • Reviewers should refrain from judging articles with conflicts of interest and report any such conflicts as soon as possible.
  • Reviewers' judgments about the quality and content of articles should be based on professional and objective opinions.
Authorship Criteria and Author’s Responsibility

The contributors should fulfill the following three requirements to guarantee authorship for the manuscripts they submit:

  • The author has done the conception, design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
  • The author has either written the article from scratch or critically revised it for significant intellectual value.
  • The author has given the final approval for the version to be published. Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to be allowed to take public responsibility for suitable portions of the content.

 

Authorship Criteria

(https://publicationethics.org/files/u7141/1999pdf13.pdf)

  • The corresponding author is typically in charge of communicating with the journal and ensuring that all administrative requirements, such as authorship information, ethics committee approval, clinical trial registration documentation, and conflict of interest statements, are correctly completed. This is true throughout the manuscript submission, peer review, and publication processes.
  • After an article has been accepted for publication in the Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi, no additional authors or changes to the first or corresponding authors are allowed. If an author wishes to be removed from the byline, he or she must submit a letter signed by the author and all other authors indicating their wish to be removed from the list of authors. Any change in the authors' order in the byline requires a letter signed by all authors indicating their agreement.
  • Articles must observe the basic principles of writing and research and be written and arranged according to the journal's format.
  • Before submitting an article to this journal, all authors should read the authors' guide and the terms and conditions.
  • The corresponding author must use the authors' commitment form to confirm and submit the details of other paper co-authors in this publication.
  • All authors whose names are mentioned in the article and the commitment form must participate in writing and compiling the article.
  • The article should mention the authors' appreciation, organizational affiliation, and any conflicts of interest between authors or organizations.
  • Authors should clearly report the sponsor of the research (if any).
  • Authors have a duty to notify the editor as soon as possible if they find a mistake or correction in their published article to correct or revoke the article.
  • All authors should know that articles submitted to this journal are reviewed by similarity check software to prevent scientific misconduct.
  • Authors should cite correctly and appropriately all the sources they have used, both directly and indirectly.

The Principles of Transparency 

  • Study Design and Ethical Approval

Good research should be well-justified, well-planned, appropriately designed, and ethically approved. Conducting research to a lower standard may constitute misconduct. The authors are responsible for the whole scientific content and the accuracy of the bibliographic information.

 

  • Data Analysis

Data should be appropriately analyzed, but inappropriate analysis does not necessarily amount to misconduct. Fabrication and falsification of data do constitute misconduct.

 

  • Conflicts of Interest
    • Conflicts of interest comprise those that may not be fully apparent and may influence the judgment of the author, reviewers, and editors. They have been described as those which, when revealed later, would make a reasonable reader feel misled or deceived. They may be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial. “Financial” interests may include employment, research funding, stock or share ownership, payment for lectures or travel, consultancies, and company support for staff.
    • The authors of this journal are obliged to declare any conflict of interest when submitting the manuscript. Any conflicts of interest between authors or organizations, as well as author appreciation and organizational affiliation, should be acknowledged in the article.

 

  •  Human and Animal Studies

All manuscripts reporting the results of experimental investigations involving human subjects should include a statement confirming that informed consent was obtained from each subject or subject’s guardian. All animal or human studies should be used after a local ethics committee approves the experimental protocol.

 

  • Peer-Review
    • This journal uses double-blind peer review, a conventional method in which the authors do not know who the reviewers are. However, the reviewers know who the authors are.
    • Authors have the right to communicate to the editor if they do not wish their manuscript to be reviewed by a particular reviewer because of potential conflicts of interest.
    • No article is rejected unless negative comments are received from at least two reviewers. This process and any policies related to the journal’s peer review procedures are clearly described on the journal’s Web site (http://rahpooye.soore.ac.ir/journal/process?lang=en).

 

  • Plagiarism

Plagiarism is intentionally using someone else’s ideas or other original material as one's own. Even one sentence from someone else’s manuscript, or even one of your own that has previously been published, without proper citation, is considered by Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi as plagiarism. All manuscripts under review or published with Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi are subject to screening using plagiarism prevention software. Thus, plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics. The authors are expected to check their manuscripts for plagiarism before submission.

If plagiarism is detected during peer review, the submission can be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication we reserve the right, as necessary, to issue a correction or retract the article. We reserve the right to notify the authors' institutions about the plagiarism found before or after publication.

 

  • Archiving
    • The plan for electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal's content (http://rahpooye.soore.ac.ir/) is clearly indicated. This policy shows how the authors of Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi can archive copies of their work on their own web pages, corporate web pages, and other subject repositories. 
    • Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi is an open-access license. Articles can be made available immediately according to the terms of their specific Creative Commons license. If an author has published an article under an Open Access license, Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi would encourage the author to share the version of the record upon publication instead of the accepted manuscript.
    • Authors may also reuse the Abstract and Citation information (e.g., Title, Author name, Publication dates) of their article anywhere at any time, including social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook, blogs, and Twitter, providing that, where possible, a link is included back to the article on the Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi site. Preferably, the link should include the Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which can be found in the Citation information about the article online. The accepted version may be placed on: the author's personal website and/or the author's company/institutional repository or archive. Self-archiving of the submitted version is not subject to an embargo period.

Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi is now formally archived at:

 

  • Publishing Schedule

Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi publishes two issues per year (semiannually). From the beginning to the end, all the content will be available forever on the journal's exclusive website (http://rahpooye.soore.ac.ir/). 

 

  • Privacy and Confidentiality
    • When authors submit manuscripts for review, they entrust editors with the results of their scientific work and creative effort. All manuscripts must be reviewed with the utmost regard for the authors' confidentiality. Editors must clarify to reviewers that manuscripts sent for review are privileged communications and the authors' private property. As a result, reviewers and editorial staff must respect the authors' rights by refraining from publicly discussing or appropriating the authors' work before the manuscript is published.
    • Reviewers have the right to confidentiality, which the editor must respect. Confidentiality may have to be breached if there is a suspicion of dishonesty or fraud, but it must be honored otherwise.
    • Reviewers should not be allowed to make copies of the manuscript for their files or share it with others except if the editor permits them.
    • Editors, in addition to authors and reviewers, are prohibited from disclosing information about manuscripts (including their receipt, content, status in the reviewing process, reviewer criticism, or ultimate fate). Requests to use the materials in legal proceedings are included in this category.
    • Editors should not keep copies of manuscripts that have been rejected. Without the permission of the reviewer, author, and editor, reviewer comments should not be published or otherwise made public.

 

  • Ownership and Management

Soore University

 

  • Copyright and Licensing

is a fully open-access journal, meaning all articles are available on the Web to all users immediately upon publication. All journal articles are published under the  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, which permits use, sharing, adaption, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format as long as the original author(s) and source are properly credited. 

 

  • Copyright Statement

The authors are the copyright holders in this journal and retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.

 

  • Advertising

The policy of the journal is not to have advertising.

 

  • Corrections and Reactions

Journals may need to issue corrections or retractions of papers they have previously published to preserve the integrity of academic records and per accepted academic community standards, published article corrections are done by publishing an Erratum or Retraction article without changing the original article in any other way than by adding a prominent connection to the Erratum/Retraction article. The original article is still public and should typically be indexed to the retracted or corrected version. In the unlikely event that the material is deemed to violate those rights or is defamatory, we may be required to remove it from our website and archive sites.

    • Corrections

Changes to published articles that affect the article's meaning and conclusion but do not invalidate the article in its entirety may be corrected, at the discretion of the editor(s), by publishing an Erratum indexed and linked to the original article. Changes in authorship of published articles are corrected through an Erratum.

    •  Retractions

On rare occasions, if the scientific information in an article is significantly compromised, it may be appropriate to retract published articles. In these cases, the Journal must comply with the COPE guidelines. Retracted papers are indexed, and the original article is referred to.

Process for Identification of and Dealing with Allegations of Research Misconduct

Allegations of misconduct

If this journal has been the site of violations of publishing and research ethics, the Editor-in-Chief takes reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers containing research misconduct, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication.

  • The journal editor's first action is to inform the Editorial Office of Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi by supplying copies of the relevant material and a draft letter to the corresponding author, asking for a nonjudgmental explanation.
  • If the author’s explanation is unacceptable and it seems that serious unethical conduct has occurred, the matter is referred to the Publication Committee via the Editorial Office.  After deliberation, the Committee will decide whether the case is sufficiently severe to warrant a ban on future submissions. 
  • If the infraction is less severe, the Editor, upon the advice of the Publication Committee, sends the author a letter of reprimand and reminds the author of Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi publication policies; if the manuscript has been published, the Editor may request the author to publish an apology in the journal to correct the record.
  • Notification will be sent to the corresponding author, and any work by the author responsible for the violation or any work these persons coauthored that is under review by Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi journal will be rejected immediately.
  • The authors are prohibited from serving on Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi's editorial board or as reviewers for Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi Journal. Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi reserves the right to take further action.
  • In serious cases of fraud that result in the retraction of the article, a retraction notice will be published in the journal and linked to the article in the online version. The online version will also be marked “retracted” with the retraction date.

Complaints and Appeals Process 

Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi welcomes genuine appeals to editor decisions. However, you must provide strong evidence or new data/information in response to the editor’s and reviewers’ comments. Editors don’t expect frequent appeals and they rarely reverse their original decisions. Therefore, if you receive a decision to reject your manuscript, you are strongly advised to submit it to another journal. The final decisions of the Editorial Board are based on the opinions of the reviewers and their unbiased judgment and are, therefore, usually irrevocable. However, if you have a complaint about the final decision of the publication and think that there is a case for appeal, follow the following process:

  • Provide reasonable and acceptable reasons and explain why you disagree with this decision.
  • Provide any information or new data you want to consider in the review process to the publication editors.
  • If you believe the reviewers made a mistake in evaluating your paper, provide reasons and acceptable documentation.
  • Provide evidence if you think there was a conflict of interest in the arbitration process.

The editors accept only one appeal per article. After receiving the appeal, the editors may involve the referees and editors who have evaluated the manuscript. The editor's and editorial board's decisions regarding appeals are final and may include rejecting the manuscript, requesting further peer review, or requesting to submit a revised version.

COPE’s Guidelines & Flowcharts 

Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi is committed to following and applying guidelines and flowcharts of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in its reviewing and publishing process and issues. For more information on COPE’s Guidelines & Flowcharts, please see:

 (https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts-new/translations). 

COPE’s Code of Conduct and Best Practices for Editors

(https://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf)

(https://publicationethics.org/files/2008%20Code%20of%20Conduct.pdf)

  • Everything published in the journal is the responsibility of the editor-in-chief. This means that the editors must:
  • Strive to meet the needs of readers and authors;
  • Strive to improve their journal constantly;
  • Have processes in place to ensure the quality of the material they publish;
  • Champion freedom of expression;
  • Maintain the integrity of the academic record;
  • Preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards;
  • Always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
  • Actively seeks the views of authors, readers, reviewers, and editorial board members about improving their journal’s processes.
  • Encouraging and being aware of research into peer review and publishing and reassessing their journal’s processes in the light of new findings.
  • Supporting initiatives designed to reduce research and publication misconduct.
  • Supporting initiatives to educate researchers about publication ethics.
  • Assessing the effects of their journal policies on author and reviewer behavior and revising policies, as required, to encourage responsible behavior and discourage misconduct.
  • Readers should be informed about who has funded research or other scholarly work, whether the funders had any role in the study and its publication, and, if so, what this was.
  • Ensuring that all published reports and research reviews have been reviewed by suitably qualified reviewers, including statistical reviews.
  • Adopting processes that encourage the accuracy, completeness, and clarity of research reporting, including technical editing and appropriate guidelines and checklists.
  • Consider developing a transparency policy to encourage maximum disclosure about the provenance of non-research articles.
  • Adopt authorship or contributorship systems that promote good practice (e.g., so that listings accurately reflect who did the work) and discourage misconduct (e.g., ghost and guest authors).
  • Informing readers about steps taken to ensure that submissions from members of the journal’s staff or editorial board receive an objective and unbiased evaluation.