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PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT
This is the statement of ethics for AJOCS published by ALHAJJAJ ENTERPRISE. This statement was adapted from the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and covers the code of ethics for Editor-in-Chief, editorial board members, reviewers and authors.
DUTIES OF AUTHORS
Have the responsibility of ensuring only original work is submitted.
Must not reproduce work that has been previously published in other journals.
Must not submit any articles that are being reviewed or considered by the journal to other journals simultaneously.
Are only allowed to publish their work elsewhere after receiving a formal rejection from the journal or if their request to withdraw their work is officially accepted by the journal.
Must inform the Editor-in-Chief or the publisher of any inaccuracy of data in their published work so that correction or retraction of article can be done.
Should make significant contributions and be held accountable for any shortcoming in their work.
DUTIES OF REVIEWERS
Must disclose any competing interest before agreeing to review a submission.
Can refuse to review any submission due to a conflict of interest or inadequate knowledge.
Review all submissions objectively, fairly and professionally.
Reveal any ethical misconduct encountered while reviewing to the Editor-in-Chief for further action.
Should ensure the originality of a submission and be alert to any plagiarism and redundant publication.
Must not discuss the content of the submission without permission.
Adhere to the time allocated for the review process. Requests for extension to review the submission are at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief.
DUTIES OF EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS
Actively contribute to the development and the greater good of the journal.
Act as ambassadors for the journal.
Continuously support and promote the journal.
Review any work assigned to them.
DUTIES OF EDITOR-in-CHIEF
Evaluate manuscripts fairly and solely on their intellectual merit.
Ensure confidentiality of manuscripts and not disclose any information regarding manuscripts to anyone other than the people involved in the publishing process.
Has the responsibility to decide when and which articles are to be published.
Actively seek the views of board members, reviewers and authors on how to improve/ increase the image and visibility of the journal.
Give clear instructions to potential contributors to the submission process and what is expected of the authors.
Ensure appropriate reviewers are selected/ identified for the reviewing process.
PLAGIARISM
Authors should submit only original work that is not plagiarized and has not been published or being considered elsewhere. Appropriate software may be used by the editorial office to check for similarities of submitted manuscripts with existing literature. Inclusion of fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements is unacceptable. Work and/or words from other publications must be appropriately cited or quoted.
REPORTING
Authors should state their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation. The methods used in the work should be clearly and unambiguously described so that the findings can be repeated and confirmed by other researchers.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
A statement on conflict of interest must be included in the manuscript if authors receive any support that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
AUTHORSHIP AND COLLABORATION
Name of authors listed in a paper should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the report. Only those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the work must be acknowledged or listed as contributors. It is the duty of the corresponding author to ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the paper. All co-authors must approve the final version of the paper and agree to the version of the paper before submission.
MULTIPLE OR REDUNDANT
Authors should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research output in more than one journal or primary publication. A similar manuscript should not be submitted to more than one journal concurrently as this constitutes as unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format only.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses an Arial 11-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
