Publication Ethics

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Ethical politics

The Pazand Quarterly is committed to adhering to the principles of professional ethics. Though this journal has not yet gained the definite membership of the international Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), it is in compliance with the rules of "COPE" in respecting the rules of publications ethics and follows the executive regulations of the Law on Preventing and Combating Fraud in Scientific Works. 

Principles of the International Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (View)

Charter of Research Ethics of Publications of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (View)

Authors' Responsibilities

1. Submitted manuscripts to Pazand Quarterly must be previously unpublished
   (domestically and internationally).
2. manuscripts must be the original work of the author(s) and have exact sources and citations.

      3- The final responsibility of the full content of the submitted manuscript is with the author.

4. The article must contain enough details and resources to permit other researchers to have access to similar data for further research.
5. Before submitting the article, any possible conflict of interest affecting the research results and research analysis or the selection of editor- in- chief and reviewers must be mentioned and the funders of the research must be named.
6. Respect must be paid to the confidential assessment, and the disclosure of the author(s)' identity to the reviewers and vice versa must be avoided. In other words, the manuscript must avoid self- disclosing information to prevent reviewers from identifying the author(s).
7. Authorship information must be transparently and completely ensured and mentioned and non-contributors must be excluded.
8. Privacy, dignity, well-being and liberty of all those involved in the research must be preserved and supported and any threat posed to humans and other creatures must be declared.
9. The author must notify the journal officials of any error or inexactitude in time and set out to correcting them or withdrawing the whole manuscript.
10. The author(s) must clearly declare the originality of the work and its being free from plagiarism or being published previously.

Pazand Quarterly attempts to review all articles submitted to the journal system before entering the refereeing process through plagiarism checker systems. All rights to evaluate and prosecute plagiarism cases are reserved for Pazand Quarterly through the "Sina Web" plagiarism checker website.

Access to the Sina Web Hamyab website

Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board Responsibilities

1. Preserving the freedom and authority of the editor-in-chief in executing its duties independently, such as acceptance or rejection of the received manuscripts with the assistance of the editorial board and observing the scientific merits of the article including the preservation of all rights, research originality and editors' and reviewers' opinions.
2. To promote and to enforce regulations of ethics and soundness of research.
3. To select qualified reviewers by relying on their specialties, scientific and professional experience, and also respecting the well-reasoned requests of the author(s) for special reviewers.
4. To avoid the disclosure of the information about the author and reviewer and discussing its details with others.
5. To prevent any sort of conflict of interests in reviewing that could potentially affect the acceptance and publication of articles.
6. To check carefully works charged with breaching the codes by reviewers or other channels, and if necessary acting according to the pertinent rules.

Reviewers' responsibility

1. To assist in the scientific quality and content analysis of the articles in order to improve its status.
2. To apply professional knowledge and expertise related to the subject domain of the journal and to declare the rejection of submitted manuscripts to the editor-in-chief when it does not conform with the shared interests, be it financial, organizational, personal, or due to shortage of time for reviewing.
3. To express expert and corrective opinions clearly, based on scientific evidence and sufficient reasoning in a definite time to the editor-in-chief and author, and to avoid partiality due to one's preferences, ethnicity, religious belief, professional inclination and otherwise in reviewing the submitted manuscripts.
4. To avoid the appropriation of the received data, discussions, explanations and ideas in the process of reviewing and even the unpublished information of the author for personal gain.
5. To respect the confidentiality of the reviewing process and to avoid the appropriation of the received information, discussions, explanations and ideas in the process of reviewing, or utilizing the new data and concepts derived from the article for or against one's own or other people's research or for criticizing or discrediting the author.
6. To inform the editor-in-chief in case of a delay in reviewing the manuscripts and to request more time allocation or selecting another reviewer.

Journals' Office Management

1. To establish and announce clearly publishing policies, especially in regard to the autonomy of the editor-in-chief in making decisions, publication ethics, safeguarding the intellectual property and copyright, conflict of interests, authors' duties, reviewers, editor-in-chief, editorial board, reviewing and decision making process, revision requests and complaints, preserving the scientific documents of the decision making process, preserving the authors' and reviewers'  information, correcting or removing the accepted manuscripts, and solving disputes between the complainants and those accused of unethical research and publication behavior.
2. To monitor and pursue research complaints for the journals.
3.  To assist in ensuring the originality and soundness of the published articles in the journals.