The editor of a journal has a vital rule taking important editorial decisions on all submitted peer-reviewed for publication.
The editor should ensure the transparency of the academic research & data, preclude professional needs from ethical standards.
The editor should evaluate manuscripts for their scientific quality and content, free from any type of biased decisions based on discrimination of race, gender, geographical origin, or religion of the author(s).
The editor should assess manuscripts objectively based on their academic quality free of any commercial or self-interests.
The editor should not disclose any data on submitted manuscripts before publication of the manuscript.
Promoting research rectitude must be preserved. If at any stage the publisher suspects any kind of misconduct in research, it should be investigated well in detail with suitable authority; and if any suspicious act of misconduct is detected in the peer review, it should be treated with diligence.
Reviewers’ Duties:
Providing an unbiased, detailed, and constructive evaluation on the scientific content of the work.
Indicating whether the manuscript is relevant, concise & clear and evaluating the originality and scientific accuracy.
Ensuring the confidentiality of the complete review process.
Notifying the journal editor about any conflict of interest and declining to review the manuscript when a possibility of such a conflict is present.
Informing the journal editor of any ethical concerns in their evaluation of submitted manuscripts, such as any violation of ethical treatment of animal or human subjects or any remarkable similarity between the previously published article and any reviewed manuscript.
Authors’ Duties:
All the work mentioned in the manuscript must be original and free from any degree of plagiarism.
The work must not have been published elsewhere or submitted to any journal at the same time.
Any potential conflict of interest must be clearly mentioned and acknowledged.
Proper acknowledgements to other work reported (individual/company/institution) must be reported. Permission must be taken from any content used from other sources.
Only those who have made any substantial contribution to the interpretation or composition of the submitted work, should be listed as ‘Authors’. While other contributors should be mentioned as ‘co-authors’.
When submitted studies on humans, author must clarify whether the procedures followed coordinated with the ethical rules of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (available at http://www.wma.net/e/policy/17-c_e.html).
Approval of a local Ethics Committee (for both human as well as animal studies) must be included in the submission of the authors.
A statement on ethics committee permission and ethical rules must be involved in all research articles.