Ethical standards for publication exist to ensure high-quality scientific publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that people receive credit for their ideas. Environmental Research and Technology expects author(s), researchers, reviewers and editors to comply with the principles of ethical rules during the publication period of the manuscript. According to the open access guides issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the following standard, general and specific ethical rules and responsibilities should be considered.
PlagiarismAll journals published by Yildiz Technical University are committed to publishing only original material, i.e., material that has neither been published elsewhere, nor is under review elsewhere. Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will incur plagiarism sanctions. Also, the manuscripts are checked for plagiarism using Ithenticate which is subscribed by Yıldız Technical University (YTU).Duplicate SubmissionManuscripts that are found to have been published elsewhere, or to be under review elsewhere, will incur duplicate submission/publication sanctions. If authors have used their own previously published work, or work that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted manuscript, they are required to cite the previous work and indicate how their submitted manuscript offers novel contributions beyond those of the previous work.Citation ManipulationSubmitted manuscripts that are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal, will incur citation manipulation sanctions.Data Fabrication and FalsificationSubmitted manuscripts that are found to have either fabricated or falsified experimental results, including the manipulation of images, will incur data fabrication and falsification sanctions.Improper Author Contribution or AttributionAll listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved all its claims. It is important to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution, including students and laboratory technicians.Redundant PublicationsRedundant publications involve the inappropriate division of study outcomes into several articles.SanctionsIn the event that there are documented violations of any of the above mentioned policies in any journal, regardless of whether or not the violations occurred in a journal published by YTU, the following sanctions will be applied:Immediate rejection of the infringing manuscript.Immediate rejection of every other manuscript submitted to any journal published by YTU by any of the authors of the infringing manuscript.Prohibition against all of the authors for any new submissions to any journal published by YTU, either individually or in combination with other authors of the infringing manuscript, as well as in combination with any other authors. This prohibition will be imposed for a minimum of 36 months.Prohibition against all of the authors from serving on the Editorial Board of any journal published by YTU.In cases where the violations of the above policies are found to be particularly egregious, the publisher reserves the right to impose additional sanctions beyond those described above.
Responsibilities of the Author(s):
• The author(s) must guarantee the originality of the data used in the article.
• The references pages must comply with the formatting rules of the journal.
• All manuscript must be free of plagiarism and false data.
• The author(s) shouldnt publish the research in more than one journal.
Responsibilities of Reviewer(s):
• Assessments have to be done neutrally.
• There must be no conflicts of interest between reviewer(s) and authors.
• The reviewer(s) must indicate deficiencies in terms of work, attribution, rules etc., related to the manuscript.
• Material under review should not be shared or discussed with anyone outside the review process.
Responsibilties of Editor(s):
• Editor(s) have the right to accept or decline articles. They have to use this responsibility in a timely way that conforms with publishing schedules.
• Editor(s) should avoid conflicts of interest in accepting or declining articles.
• Editor(s) should only accept articles that are original and contribute to the field of the journal.
• Editor(s) should enable authors to make corrections to their work after receiving requests for revision (thus enabling publication) or to withdraw their articles before or after any requests for revision are made.
• The editor(s) will ensure that articles will be assessed by at least two referees according to the double-blind peer review process.
• Editor(s) will work with “Turnitin” plagiarism software to determine if articles and authentic and original.
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