Publication Ethics

ISROSET: Ethical standards for publication exist to ensure high-quality scientific publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that people receive credit for their ideas. ISROSET is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and abides by its Code of Conduct and aims to adhere to its Best Practice Guidelines.
All journals published by ISROSET are committed to publishing only original material, i.e., material that has neither been published elsewhere, nor is under review elsewhere. So, it is important to avoid the following ethical violations.

Data Fabrication and Falsification
Data fabrication and falsification means the researcher did not actually do the study, but made up data or results and had recorded or reported the fabricated information. Data falsification means the researcher did the experiment, but manipulated, changed, or omitted data or results from the research findings. This would lead to public distrust and less willing to provide funding support.

Plagiarism 
Plagiarism is deliberately using someone else’s language, ideas, or other original material without acknowledging its source and without giving them credit. Copying even one sentence from someone else’s manuscript, or even one of your own that has previously been published, without proper citation is considered plagiarism-use your own words instead.

Simultaneous Submission 
Simultaneous submission occurs when a manuscript (or substantial sections from a manuscript) is submitted to a journal when it is already under consideration by another journal.

Duplicate Publication 
Duplicate publication occurs when two or more papers, without full cross referencing, share essentially the same hypotheses, data, discussion points, and conclusions.

Redundant Publications (or ‘Salami’ Publications) 
Redundant publications involve the inappropriate division of study outcomes into several articles, most often consequent to the desire to plump academic vitae.

Improper Author Contribution or Attribution 
All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved all its claims. Don’t forget to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution, including students and laboratory technicians.

Citation Manipulation
Citation Manipulation is including excessive citations, in the submitted manuscript, that do not contribute to the scholarly content of the article and have been included solely for the purpose of increasing citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal. This leads to misrepresenting the importance of the specific work and journal in which it appears and is thus a form of scientific misconduct. In 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 ISROSET, the following sanctions will be applied:

• Immediate rejection of the infringing manuscript.
• Immediate rejection of every other manuscript submitted to any journal published by ISROSET by any of the authors of the infringing manuscript.
• Prohibition against all of the authors for any new submissions to any journal published by ISROSET, 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 24 months.
• Prohibition against all of the authors from serving on the Editorial Board of any journal published by ISROSET.

 

     In cases where the violations of the above policies are found to be particularly egregious, the publisher reserves the right to take additional measures beyond those described above.