PUBLICATION ETHICS

This journal is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws. Readers, authors, reviewers and editors should follow these ethical policies once working with JHS. For information on this matter in publishing and ethical guidelines please visit http://publicationethics.org.

 

Remarks for Publisher

• JHS is always willing to publish corrections, clarifications and retractions involving its publications as and when needed.
• JHS is committing to maintaining the integrity of academic and research records.
• JHS is promising to ensure that the decision on manuscript submissions is only made based on professional judgment and will not be affected by any commercial interests.
• JHS is committing to ensure that editorial decisions on manuscript submissions are the final.
• JHS is monitoring the ethics by Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Editorial Board Members, Reviewers, Authors, and Readers.
• JHS is always checking the plagiarism and fraudulent data issues involving in the submitted manuscript.

Remarks for Editors

• The Editors of the JHS should have the full authority to reject/accept a manuscript.

• The Editors of the JHS should maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts under review or until they are published.

• The Editor-in-Chief of JHS should take a decision on submitted manuscripts, whether to be published or not with other editors and reviewers.

• The Editors of the JHS should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.

• The Editors of the JHS should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.

• The Editors of the JHS should maintain academic integrity and strive to meet the needs of readers and authors.

• The Editors of the JHS should be willing to investigate plagiarism and fraudulent data issues and willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.

• The Editors of the JHS should have the limit themselves only to the intellectual content.

• The Editors of the JHS must not disclose any information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

• Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper will not be used by the editor or the members of the editorial board for their own research purposes without the author's explicit written consent.

Remarks for Reviewers

• The Reviewers of the JHS should assist the Editors in taking the decision for publishing the submitted manuscripts.

• The Reviewers of the JHS should maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts, which they are invited to review.

• The Reviewers of the JHS should provide comments in time that will help editors to make a decision on the submitted manuscript to be published or not.

• The Reviewers of the JHS are bound to treat the manuscript received for peer reviewing as confidential, and must not use the information obtained through peer review for personal advantage. 

• The Reviewers of the JHS comments against each invited manuscript should be technical, professional and objective.

• The Reviewers of the JHS should not review the manuscripts in which they have found conflicts of interest with any of the authors, companies, or institutions.

• The Reviewers of the JHS should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.

Remarks for Authors

• Manuscripts must be submitted only in English and should be written according to sound grammar and proper terminology.

• Manuscripts must be submitted with the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis) and are not currently under consideration by another journal published by or any other publisher.

• The submitting corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the manuscript article's publication has been approved by all the other coauthors.

• In order to sustain the peer review system, authors have an obligation to participate in peer review process to evaluate manuscripts from others. 

• It is also the authors' responsibility to ensure that the manuscripts emanating from a particular institution are submitted with the approval of the necessary institution.

• It is a condition for submission of a manuscript that the authors permit editing of the paper for readability.

• Authors are requested to clearly identify who provided financial support for the conduct of research and/or preparation of the manuscript and briefly describe the role of the founder/ sponsor in any part of the work.

• A copyright form must be signed by the corresponding author in case of multiple authorship, prior to the acceptation of the manuscript, by all authors, for publication to be legally responsible towards the Journal ethics and privacy policy.

• Under open access license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content, but allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly.

• All authors have agreed to allow the corresponding author to serve as the correspondent with the editorial office, to review the edited manuscript and proof.

• When an author(s) discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher to retract or correct the manuscript. 

• All authors must know that that the submitted manuscripts under review or published with JHS are subject to screening using Plagiarism Prevention Software. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics. 

• All authors must ensure that all authors have read the submission final checklist before being submitted to the JHS.

 Transparency Laws

• Peer review process: JHS has an electronic peer-reviewed process which is clearly described on the journal’s website https://jhs.uma.ac.ir/journal/process.

• Governing Body: JHS has a very strong editorial board, whose members are recognized experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. The full names and affiliations of the journal’s editorial board are provided on https://jhs.uma.ac.ir/journal/editorial.board.

• Contact information: The contact information of JHS is provided on https://jhs.uma.ac.ir/journal/contact.us.

• Author fees / Access: The Journal database is fully open access and full text of published articles are available for everyone who can get access to the Journal website free of cost. Besides, the authors never pay any charges for submission, article processing and publication.

• Copyright: Upon acceptance of manuscript authors will be asked to complete the journals copyright form which can be found in Guide for Authors: https://jhs.uma.ac.ir/journal/authors.note.

• Identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct: Editor-in-Chief takes reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others.

• Website: JHS has a website (https://jhs.uma.ac.ir/) which ensures the ethical and professional standards of the journal.

• Name of journal: The Journal's full name is "Journal of Hyperstructures" which is a global unique name and it covers all areas of Mathematical Sciences. The journal's abbreviate name is "J. Hyperstruct.".

• Publishing schedule: The JHS published biannual, at June and December of each year.

• Archiving: An electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content are clearly provided through https://jhs.uma.ac.ir/.

 

 Violation of Publication Ethics

• Plagiarism: Copying even one sentence from someone else’s manuscript, or even one of your own that has previously been published, without proper citation, is considered by JHS Journal as plagiarism. All manuscripts under review or published with JHS are subject to screening using plagiarism prevention software.
• Data Fabrication and Falsification: Data fabrication and falsification means the researcher did not really carry out the study, but made up data or results and had recorded or reported the fabricated information. Data falsification means the researcher did the experiment, but manipulated, changed, or omitted data or results from the research findings.
• Simultaneous Submission: Simultaneous submission occurs when a manuscript (or substantial sections from a manuscript) is submitted to a journal when it is already under consideration by another journal.
• Duplicate Publication: Duplicate publication occurs when two or more papers, without full cross-referencing, share essentially the same hypotheses, data, discussion points, and conclusions.
• Improper Author Contribution or Attribution: All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved all its claims. Don’t forget to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution, including students and laboratory technicians.
• Citation Manipulation: Citation Manipulation is including excessive citations, in the submitted manuscript, that do not contribute to the scholarly content of the article and have been included solely for the purpose of increasing citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal. This leads to misrepresenting the importance of the specific work and journal in which it appears and is thus a form of scientific misconduct.
• Sanctions: In the event that there are documented violations of any of the above-mentioned policies in any journal, regardless of whether or not the violations occurred in a journal, the following sanctions will be applied: (i) Immediate rejection of the infringing manuscript, (ii)Immediate rejection of every other manuscript submitted to any journal published by any of the authors of the infringing manuscript, (iii) Prohibition will be imposed for a minimum of 36 months against all of the authors for any new submissions to any journal, either individually or in combination with other authors of the infringing manuscript, and (iv) Prohibition against all of the authors from serving on the Editorial Board of any journal.

 

Handling Cases of Misconduct

Journal of Hyperstructures will carefully consider complaints, appeals and allegations in line with guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). This applies both pre-and post-publication.

• The first action of the journal Editor is to inform the Editorial Office of JHS by supplying copies of the relevant material and a draft letter to the corresponding author asking for an explanation in a nonjudgmental manner.
• If the author’s explanation is unacceptable and it seems that serious unethical conduct has taken place, the matter is referred to the Publication Committee via Editorial Office.  After deliberation, the Committee will decide whether the case is sufficiently serious to warrant a ban on future submissions. 
• If the infraction is less severe, the Editor, upon the advice of the Publication Committee, sends the author a letter of reprimand and reminds the author of JHS publication policies; if the manuscript has been published, the Editor may request the author to publish an apology in the journal to correct the record.
• Notification will be sent to the corresponding author and any work by the author responsible for the violation or any work these persons coauthored that is under review by JHS journal will be rejected immediately.
• The authors are prohibited from serving on JHS editorial board and serving as a reviewer for JHS Journal. JHS reserves the right to take more actions.
• In extreme cases, notifications will be sent to the affiliations of the authors and the authors are prohibited from submitting their work to JHS for 5 years.
• In serious cases of fraud that result in retraction of the article, a retraction notice will be published in the journal and will be linked to the article in the online version. The online version will also be marked “retracted” with the retraction date.
• Well-evidenced appeals to editorial decisions are welcome and will be handled by the journal’s Editor in the first instance, who will assess the appeal’s validity. If valid, the journal’s editorial board and/or external peer reviewers will review the appeal. A new editorial decision will be made based on the results of this review.

• To submit a complaint or raise an issue of potential misconduct to the journal, or to appeal an editorial decision:

  • Contact the journal's Editor with an explanation of your complaint or appeal. If you have a complaint regarding the editors of the journal you may, alternatively, address your complaint directly to the publisher by writing to info@uma.ac.ir.
  • If the response to your complaint is not satisfactory raise the matter with the publisher, info@uma.ac.ir, who will investigate the complaint and decide whether a further investigation is required following COPE guidelines.
  • Especially complex cases may be submitted directly to COPE for guidance on how to proceed.
  • Please submit complaints or appeals by email, by visiting the journal’s ‘Contact Us’ page. Our aim is to acknowledge complaints or appeals within 5 days of receipt, and to keep complainants updated throughout the process. If the resolution reached by the journal/publisher is not satisfactory to the complainant, the matter may be escalated to COPE or a similar, appropriate body.