“This journal is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws”

Publishing ethics

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the writers and the institutes that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the writer, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society of society-owned or sponsored journals.

Duties of editors

Publication decision
Fair play
Confidentiality
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Involvement and cooperation in investigations

Duties of reviewers

Contribution to editorial decision
Promptness
Confidentiality
Standards of objectivity
Acknowledgement of sources
Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Duties of writers

Reporting standards
Data access and retention
Originality and plagiarism
Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication
Acknowledgement of sources
Authorship of the paper
Hazards and human, especially contemporary Islamic subjects
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Fundamental errors in published works

Ethical principles for the author:

As an author begins submitting an article, the article should be a novel and original task. The author is not allowed to submit an article whose part is being studied somewhere else. The author cannot submit the article whose part is being studied and assessed to another journal as well.

Authors should express their primary ideas and tasks explicitly even if they have been revised and quoted objectively. If precise sentences or paragraphs are seen in a research paper that seems it is an extract from an essay or a citation from another author, these sentences should be put in quotation marks. The essay ought to specify the origin of each applied datum and also all data. If specific data collection is applied by another author or this author, it should inform the other published or unpublished tasks.

Plagiarism has a variety of forms, such as:

1. To copy or repeat the most significant part of another article (even if the copied article is related to the author of the new essay).
2.  To show the outcome and results of the other research to his own.
3. To express false results, in contrast with scientific findings, or distort the outcomes of the research.
4. To apply unreliable data or manipulate research data.