Publication Ethics

 

Journal of Economic Geology is a member of the International Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and follows the Executive Regulations of the Law on Prevention and Combating Fraud in Scientific Works.

COPE journal membership link

 

The Code of Ethics of the Journal of Economic Geology is designed based on the guidelines provided by COPE . All editorial board members, reviewers and authors are requested to read this guideline and if they encounter issues such as plagiarism, citation manipulation and data falsification in submitted or published articles, they should raise the issue with the editor of the journal, Mr. Dr. Karimpour, at the email address econg@um.ac.ir or contact the publisher at fumpress@um.ac.ir and they will address the issue according to the COPE flowcharts.

 

Duties and Responsibilities of Editors (editor-in-chief and editorial board members)

  1. Editors should review the content of submitted articles and, if they are consistent with the journal's scope and based on their knowledge of the reviewers, suggest reviewers who are experts in the subject matter of the article.
  2. The editor of the journal is responsible for making the final decision to accept or reject submitted articles based on the opinions of the reviewers and editorial board members, considering the scientific validity and importance of the article for researchers and readers, and considering issues related to copyright, plagiarism, etc.
  3. Editors must take necessary measures to maintain the confidentiality of the identities of reviewers and authors.
  4. Editors should refrain from reviewing articles in which there is any conflict of interest and delegate the management of these articles to another member of the editorial board.
  5. Editors (especially the editor) should investigate and take appropriate action regarding unethical behavior in a submitted or published article. They should investigate any reports of unethical behavior, even if discovered years after the article was published.
  6. Editors will follow the International Committee on Ethics (COPE) flowcharts when dealing with suspected cases of misconduct . If unethical behavior is well-substantiated in articles, an appropriate response, such as a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other note, should be published in the journal.
  7. Editors should not provide any information about submitted articles to anyone before they are published.
  8. Editors should not use information from submitted articles that have not yet been published for their own research purposes without the written consent of the author.
  9. Editors should give fair consideration to all articles submitted to the journal and review articles solely for their scientific merit and without personal bias or animosity or consideration of the nationality, gender, religion, ethnic, racial, or political affiliations or organizational affiliations of the author(s). Decisions regarding acceptance and publication of articles should not be influenced by the policies of governments or other organizations outside the journal itself.
  10. 10.The editor has full discretion in accepting articles for publication and determining when they will be published.

https://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf

 

Duties and Responsibilities of Referees

  1. Reviewers should provide comments that will help editors decide whether or not to publish submitted articles.
  2. Reviewers must maintain the confidentiality of articles submitted to them for evaluation.
  3. Reviewers should refuse to evaluate articles that they believe are subject to a conflict of interest, including shared financial, organizational, personal interests, or any other relationship with companies, institutions, or individuals related to the articles, and immediately notify the journal editor so that the article can be sent to alternative reviewers.
  4. Reviewers who feel they are not qualified to review the assigned article or are unable to complete the evaluation within the deadline must notify the journal editor and announce their withdrawal from reviewing the article. If they know of another expert reviewer or reviewers, they should suggest them to the editor via email or the comments section on the journal website.
  5. Reviewers should not discuss the article with anyone other than the editor. They should also not share information about the article without permission. This also applies to articles that the reviewer withdraws from review.
  6. Reviewers are required to treat the information in the article submitted for evaluation as confidential and not use it for their own personal gain.
  7. Reviewers must evaluate articles objectively, fairly, and professionally.
  8. Reviewers should avoid personal bias in their opinions and evaluations and express their opinions clearly and reasonedly. Reviewers should provide reasoned and fair criticism to help authors improve the paper.
  9. Reviewers are required to identify and review sources that the author has not referenced. Any conclusions or discussions that have been previously made should be cited along with the source.
  10. Reviewers are required to inform the editor if they notice any similarities or overlaps between the submitted work and another article.

https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines/cope-ethical-guidelines-peer-reviewers

 

Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

  1. Authors should ensure that their submitted paper has not been previously published elsewhere (unless in the form of an abstract, part of a published lecture, conference, or thesis) or is not currently under consideration in another journal.
  2. Authors are requested to submit the article with sufficient details and references to enable other researchers to replicate the research.
  3. Authors may be asked to submit raw data from their study with the article for review and editing and should be prepared to make the data publicly available, if possible.
  4. The corresponding author of the article is responsible for ensuring that the article is approved by all authors.
  5. Only people who meet the authorship criteria should be listed as authors in the article because they must have the ability to take responsibility for the content presented.
  6. All authors should carefully read the submission checklist before submitting.
  7. Authors should disclose at the earliest possible stage (by submitting a conflict of interest form at the time of submission) any conflicts of interest that may influence the results or their interpretation.
  8. Authors are committed to submitting only original, plagiarized works. Authors are encouraged to use plagiarism detection software to check their articles for plagiarism.
  9. If the work involves chemicals, methods, or equipment that pose unusual hazards, authors should clearly state these in the article.
  10. Authors should declare that informed consent for the experiment was obtained from human subjects (if required). The privacy rights of human subjects should always be respected.
  11. When submitting an article for review, authors must fully respond to all reviewers' comments and, within the specified deadline, revise the article and submit the revised article file and the response file to the reviewers via the journal's website.
  12. Authors should mention individuals or organizations that have provided financial support or influenced the development of their research and acknowledge them in the "Acknowledgements" section at the end of the article.
  13. A condition for submitting an article to a publication is that the author gives permission to edit the article to make it readable.
  14. All authors must agree to allow the corresponding author to be in contact with the publication office as a correspondent and make necessary corrections.
  15. Under an open access license, copyright is reserved for the authors, but others are allowed to download, share, copy, or reuse the work as long as it is properly cited.
  16. If an author notices a significant error or inaccuracy in their published article, they are required to promptly notify the journal's editor, take action to correct it, or withdraw the article.
  17. Authors should be aware that all articles submitted to the Journal of Economic Geology are reviewed with plagiarism detection software, and plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics and, in all instances, is unethical and unacceptable behavior.

https://publicationethics.org/files/Internationalstandards_authors_forwebsite_11_Nov_2011.pdf

 

Publisher's Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad , as the publisher of the Journal of Economic Geology, is committed to ensuring that decisions regarding submitted articles are made solely based on professional judgment and are not influenced by any commercial interests.

  2. The publisher is obligated to ensure permanent access to the content of published articles by maintaining its digital archive.
  3. The publisher monitors compliance with publication ethics by the editor, editorial board members, reviewers, authors, and readers.

  4. The publisher, with the assistance of editors, must always take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of articles in which research misconduct has occurred, and under no circumstances should they encourage such misconduct or knowingly allow such misconduct to occur.

  5. The publisher always investigates cases of scientific misconduct, such as the publication of fake data or plagiarism, and is willing to take necessary action, including publishing corrections, clarifications, or retracting the article if necessary.

  6. Publisher's business model: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, by paying a defined budget for each published issue of the journal (based on the journal's rank in the annual evaluation announced on the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology's scientific journals portal), covers the relevant costs, including setting up and maintaining the journal's infrastructure, the review, refereeing, editing, layout, and maintaining the article archive.

 https://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_publishersFINAL_1_0.pdf

 

Violation of publishing ethics

The editorial board members of the Journal of Economic Geology remind that plagiarism in any of its instances is unacceptable:

  1. Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the use of ideas and main parts of others (without citing the source) in a way that makes it appear as if they are your own. Copying even a single sentence from another person’s articles, or even articles you have previously published, without proper citation, is considered plagiarism by Journal of Economic Geology. All articles reviewed or published in this magazine are matched with plagiarism detection software such as iThenticate. Therefore, plagiarism is a serious violation of publishing ethics.
  2. Simultaneous submission: You must ensure that the article you submit has not been previously published anywhere else in any other language and is not submitted simultaneously to other publications.
  3. Duplicate Publication: Duplicate publication occurs when two or more articles use the exact same hypothesis, data, and results without proper referencing.
  4. Redundant Publication: Redundant publication refers to the inappropriate division of information from a study into multiple articles, which often occurs due to an individual's desire to complete their academic resume.
  5. Data falsification: Data falsification means that the researcher did not actually conduct the study but rather presented unrealistic and fabricated data and results, or that he conducted the experiment but deleted, manipulated, or altered the data or research results.
  6. Citation Manipulation: Citation manipulation refers to excessive citations in a submitted paper that do not contribute to the scientific content of the paper and are done solely for the purpose of increasing citations to the work of a particular author or articles published in a particular journal. This misrepresents the importance of the work or journal being cited and is therefore considered a form of scientific misconduct.
  7. Inappropriate Author Contributions or Attribution: All listed authors must have made a significant contribution to the research presented in the article and must have confirmed all of its claims. 

  https://publicationethics.org/files/Sharing_of_Information_Among_EiCs_guidelines_web_version.pdf

 

Handling violation cases

( https://publicationethics.org/files/Sharing_of_Information_Among_EiCs_guidelines_web_version.pdfrmation.pdf )
The editorial board of the Journal of Economic Geology will take the necessary steps to review incoming articles for authenticity, reliability of the information provided, and proper use of citations and references, and will apply the following policies in the event of plagiarism being identified in any article submitted to the journal, and will take appropriate action. If any unethical behavior is detected by the journal's editorial board or by one of the referees, the first step is to notify the editor by providing copies of the relevant material and a draft letter to the author responsible for the article, requesting an appropriate explanation without judgment. If the violation is of lesser severity, the editor will, as recommended by the Publication Ethics Committee, send a letter of reprimand to the author and remind him of the publication policies of the JJournal of Economic Geology. If the article has been published, the editor may request the author to publish an apology in the journal to correct the record. If the author's explanation is unacceptable and it appears that serious unethical behavior has occurred, the matter will be referred to the Publication Committee via the Editorial Board. After review, the Committee will decide whether the case is serious enough to warrant a ban on further submissions.

Sanctions: In cases of severe violations, the matter will be reported to the author's relevant organization, and the authors will not be allowed to submit articles to the Journal of Economic Geology for five years.

https://publicationethics.org/files/Sharing_of_Information_Among_EiCs_guidelines_web_version.pdfrmation.pdf