The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Journal of Emerging and Social Sciences is committed to ensuring ethics in publication and quality of articles based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Editors: Editors should take responsibility for the smooth peer review, production, and publication process of submitted manuscripts under the journal's legal requirements and policies. Editors should evaluate manuscripts exclusively based on their academic merit. An editor must not use unpublished information in the editor's research without the author's express written consent. Editors should take reasonable responsive measures when ethical complaints (such as multiple submissions, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or the like) have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper. Editors should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
Reviewers: Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviews should be conducted objectively, and observations should be formulated clearly with supporting arguments so that authors can use them to improve the paper. Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts with conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers. The revisers should point out relevant published work that is not yet cited.
It is a general principle of scholarly communication that the editor of a learned journal is solely and independently responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal shall be published. In making this decision, the editor is guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. An outcome of this principle is the importance of the scholarly archive as a permanent, historical record of scholarship transactions. Articles that have been published shall remain extant, exact, and unaltered as far as is possible. However, occasionally, circumstances may arise where an article is published that must later be retracted or removed. Such actions must not be undertaken lightly and can only occur under exceptional circumstances. This policy has been designed to address these concerns and consider current best practices in the scholarly and library communities. As standards evolve and change, we will revisit this issue and welcome the input of academic and library communities. We believe these issues require international standards. We will actively lobby various information bodies to establish international standards and best practices that the publishing and information industries can adopt.
Articles in the Press, which represent early versions of articles and sometimes contain errors, may have been accidentally submitted twice. Occasionally, but less frequently, the articles may represent infringements of professional, ethical codes, such as multiple submissions, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or the like. Articles in Press (articles that have been accepted for publication but which have not been formally published and will not yet have the complete volume/issue/page information) that include errors or are discovered to be accidental duplicates of other published articles (s), or are determined to violate our journal publishing ethics guidelines in the view of the editors (such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like), maybe "Withdrawn" from International Journal of Applied Sciences and Engineering. Withdrawn means that the article content (Abstract and PDF) is removed and replaced with a PDF stating that the article has been withdrawn, according to the International Journal of Applied Sciences and Engineering Policy on Article in Press Withdrawal with a link to the current policy document. The corresponding author must pay half of the article processing fees if he/she wants to withdraw his/her article after submission.
Only used for violations of professional and ethical codes, such as multiple submissions, false claims of authorship, plagiarism, and fraudulent use of data or the like; occasionally, a retraction will be used to correct errors in submission or publication. The retraction of an article by its authors or the editor under the advice of members of the scholarly community has long been an occasional feature of the learned world. Several libraries and academic bodies have developed standards for dealing with retractions. This best practice is adopted for article retraction by Biomedical Letters: A retraction note titled "Retraction: [article title]" signed by the authors and the editor is published in the paginated part of a subsequent journal issue and listed in the contents list. In the electronic version, a link is made to the original article. The online article is preceded by a screen containing the retraction note. Link directs the reader to this screen that the link resolves; the reader can then proceed to the article itself. The original article is retained unchanged save for a watermark on the .pdf indicating on each page that it is "retracted."
In a minimal number of cases, removing an article from the online database may be necessary. This will only occur where the article is defamatory or infringes others' legal rights, or where the article is, or we have good reason to expect it will be, the subject of a court order, or where the article, if acted upon, might pose a severe health risk. In these circumstances, while the metadata (Title and Authors) will be retained, the text will be replaced with a screen indicating the article has been removed for legal reasons.
In cases where the article, if acted upon, might pose a severe health risk, the original article's authors may wish to retract the flawed original and replace it with a corrected version. In these circumstances, the procedures for retraction will be followed with the difference that the database retraction notice will publish a link to the updated re-published article and a history of the document.
