Authors Roles and Responsibilities

  • The submitted manuscript is original, unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The paper content must be accurate and true.
  • The submitted manuscript must not be a plagiarized work, and it must be properly conformed to research ethics and always refer to all sources of other works in the content of the manuscript. It needs to be verified for correctness of references, both format and content.
  • The manuscript’s format must be only in an instructed template by the journal’s specification.
  • Authors have to fill in the publishing application form completely and attach it with the manuscript.
  • The author must adjust the manuscript entirely according to advice from the editorial team and expert assessments and complete it within the given time frame.
  • If there are any funding sources supporting the paperwork, authors must name the funding sources and identify any conflicts of interest (if there are any) and notify the editor.
  • All authors whose names are listed in the manuscript must have truly contributed to the progress of the article.

Editors Roles and Responsibilities

  • Editors must screen and consider the manuscript concernedly from its clarification, consistency of content, to the journal’s scope
  • Editors must maintain the confidentiality of the author and reviewers’ details and not reveal to anyone uninvolved during the paper review procedures, which are performed as a double-blind peer review.
  • Editors must seriously check the manuscript for its plagiarism to ensure that the published article is not a plagiarizing work from others. If a manuscript is detected as plagiarizing, editors must quit the review process and contact immediately with the main author for requesting an explanation engaged in considering to “Accept” or “Reject” the suspect article.
  • If editors found that the manuscript has been plagiarized wrongfully from other works or has falsified information, which should be deprived, but the author resists it. Editors can proceed with the manuscript dismissal without the author's consent, since rights and responsibilities to an article are the editor’s.
  • Editors must not have any conflict of interest with the authors and reviewers.
  • Editors must not use some or all parts of the article belonging to his/her own work.
  • Editors must review the manuscript and forward it to the experts in the field of that manuscript.
  • Editors must examine the manuscripts for accuracy and completeness before compiling and publishing them. The journal must be issued within the specified time frame and published on the website.

Reviewers Roles and Responsibilities

  • Reviewers must consider and accept articles that have content relevant to the field of expertise.
  • Reviewers must review and screen the quality of the article based on academic principles and not use any personal opinions that are not supported by academic information.
  • Reviewers must maintain confidentiality and not reveal any part or the entirety of the submitted work to any unrelated individuals during the review process.
  • Reviewers must exclude and avoid the conflict of interest in an operational process.
  • Reviewers must provide feedback to authors that is useful to readers of the journal.