Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

1. Duties of Editors

• Publication Decisions: The editors evaluate submitted manuscripts based solely on their academic merit, relevance to the conference scope, originality, and clarity. The selection process remains free from discrimination regarding race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.
• Confidentiality: Editors and editorial staff must keep all details about submitted manuscripts confidential. They may only share information with the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, and the publisher.
• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Editors must not use unpublished materials from a submitted manuscript for their own research without explicit written consent from the author. Editors will recuse themselves from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any of the authors.
• Handling Ethical Allegations: Editors must take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred. If an ethical complaint arises regarding a submitted or published manuscript, editors will follow COPE guidelines to address and resolve the issue.

2. Duties of Reviewers

• Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions and helps authors improve their manuscripts.
• Promptness: Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research or knows that its prompt review will be impossible must notify the editorial team immediately and decline the invitation.
• Confidentiality: Reviewers must treat all manuscripts received for review as confidential documents. Reviewers must not show or discuss them with others except as authorized by the editor.
• Standards of Objectivity: Reviews must be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
• Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers must identify relevant published work that the authors have not cited. Any statement that an observation or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. Reviewers must also alert the editor to any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper.
• Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: Reviewers must keep privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review confidential and not use them for personal advantage. Reviewers should not evaluate manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any of the authors.

3. Duties of Authors

• Reporting Standards: Authors reporting original research must present an accurate account of the work performed and an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data must be represented accurately in the paper.
• Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original works. If authors use the work or words of others, they must cite or quote them appropriately. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
• Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: Authors should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one primary publication or conference proceeding. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one conference or journal concurrently is unethical behavior.
• Acknowledgement of Sources: Authors must properly acknowledge the work of others. Authors should cite publications that have influenced the nature of the reported work.
• Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the study. All significant co-authors must be listed. The corresponding author ensures that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and agreed to its submission.
• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Authors must disclose any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project must be disclosed.
• Fundamental Errors in Published Works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, they must promptly notify the proceeding editor and cooperate to retract or correct the paper.

4. Duties of the Publisher

• Handling Unethical Publishing Behavior: In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism, the publisher, in close collaboration with the editors, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification, or, in the most severe cases, the complete retraction of the affected work.
• Access and Archiving: The publisher is committed to ensuring the permanent availability and preservation of scholarly research through appropriate digital archiving solutions.