Ethical Guidelines
This journal adheres to COPE's principles and ethical standards throughout its publication.
Authors have made a substantial contribution to the submitted work, including a substantial contribution to the conception and design, acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data, drafting the article, or making essential revisions to it.
This journal usually only accepts manuscripts with up to six authors, unless a good reason is provided for adding more than six authors.
It is mandatory that all authors, throughout the article submission process and in their correspondence with the journal, utilize their academic email addresses.
All authors should be listed; non-author contributors may be acknowledged in the acknowledgement section of the PDF version of the article.
Manuscript submissions undergo an initial assessment by the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) and a plagiarism check with iThenticate. The EiC will assign it to a responsible editor who handles the review process.
Peer reviewers are primarily published authors of this journal or other relevant experts who have benefited from the expertise of other authors before having their manuscripts reviewed.
This journal employs a double-anonymized peer review to ensure an impartial, fair, and non-biased review. Once a manuscript has been assigned to the reviewers, they have one week to accept or decline the review.
The responsible section editor makes Editorial Decisions:
- A manuscript is accepted if the topic suits the journal's focus, no technical mistakes are identified, the English language level is acceptable, and editors or reviewers raise no ethical concerns.
- Revisions are requested if the conditions for acceptance are partially fulfilled, but minor adjustments can remediate them.
- A manuscript is only accepted when the conditions for acceptance or revisions are fulfilled.
Ethical Concerns
The Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the journal is the point of contact for ethical concerns, appeals, and complaints. The EiC is ultimately responsible for final decisions on an article's acceptance, rejection, correction, and retraction.