Publisher Responsibilities
Handling the Peer-Review
Process
We are committed to
bridge all components of peer-review process for delivery of quality
publications and benefiting researchers. Our all advertisements, language
service, special service, or other commercial interests shall not affect the
decision of the editors and reviewers.
Article Withdrawal and
Corrections to the Record
The published
articles should be considered for withdrawal if proven to be plagiarized,
presenting fake, duplicate or fraudulent data, or showing clear evidences of
infringements of ethical codes. Such articles (html, pdf, xml, epub, zip) will
be replaced by the content stating the withdrawal of the manuscripts. Minor
errors such as typos, textual changes, or clearer statements on the existing
contents will be published as corrections.
Integrity and Quality of
Services
We will ensure that
all contents are confidential before publication, meeting standard of archiving
and abstracting and timely publication of the accepted manuscripts.
Publication Ethics
Statement
Publication of
scientific contents is meticulous, methodical and comprehensive processes that
involve good ethical and managerial practices. The ISRDO and respective
journals take the responsibility to ensure that a rigorous peer-review has been
performed, and strict ethical policies and standards are observed for presented
manuscripts. In cases of plagiarism, fraudulent data, inappropriate authorship
credit, and similar, respective journals handle these misconducts very
seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a
zero-tolerance policy. To effectively maintain high publication standards, The
ISRDO strives to work with editors, authors, peer-reviewers and copy editors on
on-to-one bases. To ensure that submitted contents are original and are not
duplicated from previous publications, we use Turnitin, iThenticate or
Grammarly on every published article. The publication ethics, attributed to all
journals of The ISRDO, are based on the guidelines of Committee on Publication
Ethics (COPE) Code
of Conduct. Our all journals follow COPE standards for publication ethics.
Authors wishing to publish
their papers in our journals must abide to the following:
- Any facts that might be
perceived as a possible conflict of interest of the author(s) must be disclosed
in the paper prior to submission (see FOR AUTHORS section).
- Authors should accurately
present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the
significance of their findings.
- Data and methods used in
the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the paper, so that
other researchers can replicate the work.
- Raw data should preferably
be publicly deposited by the authors during/after submission of their
manuscript. Authors need to at least have the raw data readily available for
presentation to the referees and the editors of the journal, if requested.
Authors need to ensure appropriate measures are taken so that raw data is
retained in full for a reasonable time after publication.
- Simultaneous submission of
manuscripts to more than one journal is not tolerated.
- Republishing content that
is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper
that is already published in another language will not be accepted).
- If errors and inaccuracies
are found by the authors after publication of their paper, they need to be
promptly communicated to the editors of this journal so that appropriate
actions can be taken.
- The manuscript should not
contain any information that has already been published. If author includes
already published figures or images, obtaining the necessary permission from
the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license is essential.
- Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.
- Image files must not be
manipulated or adjusted in any way that could lead to misinterpretation of the
information provided by the original image.
