Journal Ethics

Author Ethics

1. Submitted articles must not have been previously published elsewhere, and submissions must not duplicate articles already submitted to other journals.
2. Authors must not plagiarize or copy the work of others.
3. Authors must revise their articles to conform to the journal's format.
4. Authors must cite or indicate the source of any text, images, graphs, tables, or other materials used in their articles to prevent copyright infringement. (In case of legal action, the author will be solely responsible; the journal will not be held liable.)
5. Authors must not cite sources in the bibliography that are not referenced within the text. References in the text must be cited in the bibliography, and at least five sources must be cited.
6. Authors must revise their articles according to the evaluations from the reviewers and editorial board within the specified time frame.
7. Authors must specify the funding source that supported their research (if any) and disclose any conflicts of interest (if any).
8. Authors must not report inaccurate information in their articles, including creating false data. or forgery, distortion, including embellishment or selective presentation of information that aligns with the conclusion.
9. Authors should not cite revoked documents unless the statement they wish to support is related to the revocation process and must be clearly stated in the references that it is a revoked document.
10. To receive acceptance for publication, an article must undergo a review and revision process.
11. If an author fails to revise and submit the revised article within the specified time frame, the journal will consider that the author does not wish to publish and will not publish it in that issue.

Ethics of Article Reviewers

1. Reviewers must maintain confidentiality and not disclose information about the submitted article to unrelated individuals during the review process.
2. After receiving an article from the journal editor, if a reviewer realizes that they may have a conflict of interest with the author that prevents them from providing independent opinions and suggestions, the reviewer should inform the editor and decline to review the article.
3. Reviewers should evaluate articles in their area of ​​expertise, considering the importance of the article's content to that field, the quality of the analysis, and the rigor of the work, or identifying important research works relevant to the article being reviewed. However, the author of the article did not cite it in the article evaluation.

Reviewers should not use personal opinions without supporting data as criteria for judging the article.

4. Reviewers must not claim any part or all of the article as their own work.
5. When a reviewer finds any part of the article that is similar to or duplicates other works, the reviewer must inform the editor.

Editorial Ethics

1. The editor is responsible for considering the quality of articles for publication in the journal under their responsibility.

And must select articles for publication after the article evaluation process, considering the clarity and consistency of the content with the journal's policy as the main considerations. The articles must contain knowledge that reflects perspectives, theoretical concepts derived from experience, literature synthesis, or research, focusing on presenting new theoretical concepts, including conceptual models that enhance understanding, which will lead to research on important academic topics.

2. The editor must not disclose the information of the author and reviewer to other unrelated individuals during the article evaluation period.
3. The editor must not publish articles that have been previously published elsewhere. This requires rigorous plagiarism checking using reliable software to ensure that articles published in the journal are not plagiarized.

If plagiarism is detected, the evaluation process must be stopped, and the author contacted immediately to request clarification for acceptance or rejection of the article.

4. Editors must not have any conflicts of interest with the authors or reviewers.
5. Editors must not claim any part or all of the article as their own work.
6. Editors have a duty to consider publishing research that uses correct research methodology and provides reliable results, using research findings to determine whether the article is suitable for publication.
7. If the editor discovers that an article has been improperly plagiarized or contains falsified data, and should be retracted, but the author refuses to retract the article, the editor may proceed with retracting the article without the author's consent. This is considered the editor's right and responsibility for the article.