Publication Ethics

The Ethical principles of the Journal and Examples of Misbehavior in the Journal

Moral policies of this journal are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and observing the ethical charter of journals of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, which all the journals of the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Research Center are committed to them. Furthermore, the publication of the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Research Center has complete supervision on every published paper of this center and all publications are obliged to observe ethical principle of international publication committee and consider the policies of the center. Authors, reviewers, scientific secretaries and editors must observe these principles in contribution with this this journal.

Duties and Responsibilities of publisher, editor, scientific secretaries, reviewers and authors

 Duties and responsibilities of the publisher
  1. This publication is highly committed that all decisions, related to the received copies of the papers, are based on professional reviews and remote from personal opinions
  2. The publication is committed to preserving the academic and research background.
  3. The publication controls the observance of ethics by editors, scientific secretaries, the committee of writing and reviewers.
  4. The publication is always monitoring the papers from plagiarism and possible misbehavior point of view.
  5. The publication will carry out reforms, descriptions and any other proceedings the time needed.
  6. The publication will deal with any proven misconduct.    

Duties and Responsibilities of editor and scientific secretaries:

  1. Scientific secretaries of this journal should keep received papers secret as long as being published
  2. The editor, scientific secretaries and reviewers make decision about paper copies to publish or not to publish
  3. Scientific secretaries of this journal should observe the principle of being blind
  4. Scientific secretaries must avoid conflicts of interest
  5. Scientific secretaries are obliged to observe scientific preservation and should try to obviate any possible scientific demands of the readers
  6. Scientific secretaries of this journal should recognize any probable plagiarism or fraud, then take reforms, descriptions or any other required actions
  7. Scientific secretaries of this journal should consider only on scientific content of the papers.
  8. Scientific secretaries of this journal are not allowed to reveal the information of the papers for other than authors, corresponding author and reviewers
  9. unpublished copies will definitely not be personally used by scientific secretaries or other related scientific individuals
 

Duties and Responsibilities of reviewers

  1. reviewers of this journal should collaborate with scientific secretaries regarding publishing the papers
  2. The invited reviewers to this journal must keep the paper copies secret
  3. reviewers should tell their opinions to scientific secretaries in proper time to make decision about to publish or not to publish
  4.   reviewers are obliged to keep the received papers secret and not use this information for personal purposes
  5. Reviews and comments from reviewers should be technical and professional
  6. The reviewers should not review papers which has any interest conflict with one of the authors or institutes
 

Duties and Responsibilities of authors

  1. The papers mustn’t be submitted to publish in another journals (except the abstract or a part of a speech or thesis), in press or submitted elsewhere.
  2. The corresponding author must ensure from the consent of the co-authors
  3. One of the responsibilities of the authors is to ensure from the consent and have permission from the institute that the paper belongs to
  4. A condition of submitting the paper is having permission for editing from the authors
  5. The authors should introduce the financial sponsor for preparing and carrying out the research
  6. The ethical commitment needs to be signed by authors
  7. The authors in open access journals have ownership of their articles, although let individuals download, publish and distribution of their articles
  8. co-authors should be in consensus that the corresponding author will do reforms and correcting after submitting the article
  9. Any important mistake found  in the article after submitting, must be informed urgently to scientific secretary of the journal by authors
  10. plagiarism is known as a serious and amoral so all the authors need to know the submitted copies will be evaluated by plagiarism software
  11. The authors should study the submitting process of an article in this journal
 

The examples of violation of ethical principles of publication by authors

  1. Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work. Plagiarism is considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics. They are subject to sanctions like penalties, suspension, and even expulsion. All copies submitted to this journal are being checked by plagiarism software.
  2. Data creation and Distortion: Data creation means that a researcher has not done any research but offers results and data. Distortion is when a researcher changes the results of a research.
  3. Simultaneous submission: it is when a paper is submitted to two journals simultaneously  
  4.  Replica Submission: it is when some articles have the same hypothesis, data and results
  5. Repeating Submission (extra): it means to divide an article into two or some articles
  6. Inappropriate listing the name as author: all of the listed authors have to contribute in writing the article
  7. Manipulating the References:  it happens when some names of researches are cited in the reference list but there is no referring inside the text
 



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