Policies and Ethics

The journal adopts by and large the guidelines provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics ("https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines").

Plagiarism

The submitted manuscript will be checked for the similarity and plagiarism with suitable detection tools and the COPE plagiarism guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/sites/default/files/plagiarism-submitted-manuscript-cope-flowchart.pdf) will be followed if plagiarism discovered.

Open Access

The accepted manuscripts are published in the journal under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which allows anyone to download and read the paper for free. The author(s) must transfer the copyrights to the publisher once the manuscript is accepted, because the journal does not charge any fee. The author(s) do, however, have rights as stated in https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Publication ethics and malpractice

If any violations found, the published article may be retracted as per the COPE guidelines https://publicationethics.org/retraction-guidelines.

Responsibilities of Author(s)

      1. The intended manuscript should be the original and unpublished work.
      2. The intended manuscript should not be submitted simultaneously to other journals.
      3. Authorship should be confined to those who contributed substantially to the study’s                 conception, design, implementation or interpretation.
      4. All author(s) must approve the final version.
      5. Any conflict of interest must be declared in the manuscript.

Responsibilities of Editor(s)

      1. Editor(s) must maintain the confidentiality and integrity.
      2. Editor(s) have complete authority to accept, modify or reject manuscripts based on
          reviewer’s recommendations.
      3. Editor(s) must not use the content of the reviewed manuscript in their study without the          author’s consent.

Responsibilities of Reviewer(s)

      1. Reviewer(s) must ensure the integrity during the review process.
      2. Reviewer(s) must not use the content of the reviewed manuscript in their study without            the author’s consent.
      3. Reviewer(s) should maintain the confidentiality.

Peer-review

      1. The journal follows double-blind review.
      2. Reviewer(s) may submit their recommendations.
      3. Based on the reviewer(s) recommendations, editor(s) decide to accept or reject the                    manuscript.
      4. Editor(s) decision will be final and the journal do not entertain appeal(s).