⚖️ Ethics Statement

To develop a coherent and cohesive network of knowledge, the publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is considered an essential building block. Scope of Science follows the Code of Conduct of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Scope of Science’s editorial staff are all trained in how to recognize and respond to ethical problems and issues.

🏢 Duties of the Publisher

• Ensure Editorial Independence: We always strive to ensure that the potential for advertising, reprinting or other commercial revenue has no influence on editorial decisions.
• Promote Industry Best Practice: We are committed to promoting the best practice by offering editors publication ethics advised by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
• Provide Support: We support editors’ communications with other journals and/or publishers and are ready to provide specialized legal review and counsel if needed.

🧑‍🏫 Duties of Editors

• Publication Decision: The decisions regarding the publication of an article are solely and independently taken by the editor of the concerned journal.
• Peer Review: The editor is responsible to ensure fair, unbiased, and timely review process. All research articles must be reviewed by at least two external and independent reviewers.
• Fair Play & Confidentiality: The editor is supposed to evaluate research articles for their intellectual content disregarding any other influence such as race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors. The editor must ensure confidentiality of all submitted material.

🕵️ Duties of Reviewers

• Contribution to Decisions: Peer review helps the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communication with the author he may also assist the author in improving the paper.
• Confidentiality: Any research article received for review must be dealt with as a confidential document.
• Objectivity: Reviewers should be objective and unbiased in the review process. Personal criticism of the author is altogether inappropriate.

✍️ Duties of Authors

• Originality & Plagiarism: Plagiarism in its all forms including, from ‘passing off’ another’s paper as the author’s own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s paper to claiming results from others’ research is altogether unethical and unacceptable. An Initial Plagiarism Check is carried out for every manuscript submitted to SOS.
• Multiple Publications: Manuscripts describing the same research in more than one journal of primary publication are taken to be multiple redundant or concurrent. Such practice is considered unethical and unacceptable.
• Authorship: Authorship should be confined to those who have made a significant contribution in the research design, execution of the study and interpretation of data of the reported study.
• Hazards and Subjects: If the work involves hazardous chemicals, procedures or equipments used in the research, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript. A statement regarding the informed consent for experimentation with human or animal subjects should also be presented.