Publication Ethics
Journal of Iranian Chemical Engineering is an official Persian publication of Iranian Association of Chemical Engineering. The peer review system of the journal of Iranian chemical engineering is based on blind peer review. The ethical policy of the journal is in line with the guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Editorial Board. readers, authors, reviewers, and editors must follow these ethical policies once working with Journal of Iranian Chemical Engineering. The ethical policy of the journal is liable to determine which of the typical research papers or articles which are submitted, should be published in the concerned issues. For information on this matter in publishing and ethical guidelines, please visit http://publicationethics.org.
Note:
Journal of Iranian Chemical Engineering is not the member of Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE), however it is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws. The journal does its best to adhere to the COPE as much as possible. Authors, editors, and reviewers must abide by our code of Publication Ethics and Conduct as stated on this page.
Duties and Responsibilities of Publisher:
IAChE (Iranian Association of Chemical Engineering) is the publisher of the journal.
IAChE is responsible to provide an appropriate website for the journal.
IAChE's board of director oversees to appoint editor-in-chief & director-in-charge.
IAChE is monitoring the ethics by editor-in-chief, editorial board members, reviewers, authors, and readers.
IAChE is always checking the plagiarism and fraudulent data issues involving in the submitted manuscript.
Duties and Responsibilities of Editor-in-Chief/ Editorial Board:
The editor-in-chief of the journal should have the full authority to reject/accept a manuscript.
The editor-in-chief/ editorial board of the journal should maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts under review or until they are published.
The editor-in-chief should take a decision on submitted manuscripts, whether to be published or not with other editorial board and reviewers
The editor-in-chief/ editorial board of the journal should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
The editor-in-chief/ editorial board of the journal should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.
The editor-in-chief/ editorial board of the journal should maintain academic integrity.
The editor-in-chief/ editorial board of the journal should be willing to investigate plagiarism and fraudulent data issues and willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
The editor-in-chief/ editorial board of the journal 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-in-chief or the members of the editorial board for their own research purposes without the author's explicit written consent.
The editorial board is authorized for any required corrections/adjustments of the manuscripts for publishing.
Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers:
The reviewers of the journal should assist the editor in taking the decision for publishing the submitted manuscripts.
The reviewers should maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts, which they are invited to review.
The reviewers should provide comments in time that will help editor to make decision on the submitted manuscript to be published or not.
The reviewers 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' comments against each invited manuscript should be technical, professional and objective.
The reviewers should not review the manuscripts in which they have found conflicts of interest with any of the authors, companies, or institutions.
The reviewers should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.
Duties and Responsibilities of Authors:
Manuscripts must be submitted in Persian which the data of figures, tables, references are English. Also, the abstract & explanations of tables & figures are in both languages (Persian & English). The manuscript must be adjusted according to authors' guideline. (https://www.ijche.ir/page_634.html?lang=en)
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.
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.
The authors permit the journal for 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 funder/sponsor in any part of the work.
A copy right release and conflict of interest disclosure form must be signed by the corresponding author in case of multiple authorships prior to the acceptation of the manuscript 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 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 the Journal are subject to screening using Plagiarism Prevention Software. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics.
Principles of Transparency
Peer review process: Journal of Iranian Chemical Engineering is a single-blind peer reviewed electronic and print bi-monthly publication concerned with all aspects of chemical engineering. This process, as well as any policies related to the journal’s peer review procedures, is clearly described on the journal’s Web site (https://www.ijche.ir/reviewer?_action=info).
Governing Body: Journal of Iranian Chemical Engineering has 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 is provided on the journal’s Web site:
(https://www.ijche.ir/journal/editorial.board?lang=en).
Contact information: Journal is provided the contact information in:
(https://www.ijche.ir/journal/contact.us?lang=en).
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. A fee for literary editing of accepted paper & also getting DOI code will be paid to the publisher's account by the author which is currently 2,500,000 Rials. Other than this, the authors never pay any charges for submission, article processing and publication.
Copyright: Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of articles under the following conditions: Attribution-
NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). That means users should refer to the articles for scientific and research works and for use of printed materials, they will need to get permission from the publisher (Iranian Association of Chemical Engineering), but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.
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.
Web site: Journal’s web site (https://www.ijche.ir/) contains that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards.
Name of journal: The Journal name is Journal of Iranian Chemical Engineering which is an official Persian publication of Iranian Association of Chemical Engineering.
Conflicts of interest: Authors are requested to evident whether impending conflicts do or do not exist while submitting their articles to the Journal through Conflict of Interest Disclosure form (Conflict of Interest Form).
Publishing schedule: The periodicity at which a journal publishes is bi-monthly.
Archiving: Journal’s electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content is in open access & available on the home page of the journal.
Specific Identifier Codes: A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) & also a Digital Object Recognizer (DOR) is specified for all accepted papers published online on our website. The papers are easily recognized by these codes. Anywhere by clicking on each of these codes paper's file, it opens with all details of the paper on our website. In addition, all researchers by googling these codes which are unique, will find all details of paper on the website of the journal.
Violation of Publication Ethics
Plagiarism: Plagiarism is intentionally using someone else’s ideas or other original material as if they are one's own. 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 Journal as plagiarism. All manuscripts under review or published with our journal are subject to screening using plagiarism prevention software. Thus, plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics. IranDoc is a service that helps editors to verify the originality of papers. IranDoc website which is known as Iranian research institute for information science & technology (IranDoc). (https://tik.irandoc.ac.ir)
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.
Redundant Publications: Redundant publications involve the inappropriate division of study outcomes into several articles, most often consequent to the desire to plump academic vitae.
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 the journal by the authors of the infringing manuscript, (iii) Prohibition will be imposed for a minimum of 36 months against all of the authors for new submissions to the journal, and (iv) Prohibition against all of the authors from serving on the Editorial Board of the journal.
Handling Cases of Misconduct
A. Once the journal confirms a violation against journal’s publication ethics, our journal addresses ethical concerns diligently following an issue-specific standard practice as summarized below.
B. The first action of the journal Editor is to inform the Editorial Office of Journal of Iranian Chemical Engineering by supplying copies of the relevant material and a draft letter to the corresponding author asking for an explanation in a nonjudgmental manner.
C. 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.
D. 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 journal 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.
E. Notification will be sent to corresponding author and any work by the author responsible for the violation or any work these persons coauthored that is under review by our journal will be rejected immediately.
F. The authors are prohibited from serving on our editorial board and serving as a reviewer for our Journal. The journal reserves the right to take more actions.
G. In extreme cases, notifications will be sent to the affiliations of the authors and the authors are prohibited from submitting their work to the Journal of Iranian Chemical Engineering for 5 years.
H. 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.
Nowadays, the need to observe ethical principles in manuscripts is essential. An article about these observing has been published in issue 62 of the Iranian Journal of Chemical Engineering (in Persian), which is useful for all authors to read. The full text of the article is attached.