Duties of Editors
Editors are responsible for maintaining ethical standards, confidentiality, fairness, and integrity throughout the publication process.
Publication Decisions
The editorial board of the journal is responsible for deciding which of the submitted articles should be published. Editorial decisions should be based on the merit of the work and the journal should inform the author about the status of the paper within due time.
Fair Play
Submitted manuscripts are evaluated for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality
The Editorial Board and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
"For all parties involved in publishing, the author, journal editor, peer reviewer, and publisher, it is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior."
Disclosure & Conflicts of Interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the explicit written consent of the author.
Editors must recuse themselves from handling manuscripts where they have a personal, institutional, collaborative, or competitive conflict of interest.
Ethical Consideration by Author
Ethical publication standards depend on the conduct of every party in the process and should be respected consistently throughout submission, review, editorial decision, and publication.
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