In order to strengthen science and technology ethics, promote research integrity, maintain the seriousness and reputation of academic activities, Science Research Management, Print ISSN 1000-2995 & CN 11-1567/G3, published monthly, is now making following statements on the subject of ethical behavior standards, which all editors, editorial staff, authors, reviewers and publishers who involved in publishing process must follow to.
1. Editorial Responsibility
Confidentiality agreement: Submission involving
confidential matters, the author takes on the liability. Requirement on
avoiding certain peer reviewers can be brought forward in online submission,
and editors at the time of submission will consider as appropriate. Editors and
editorial staff have obligations to keep the information of peer reviewers
and the manuscript of author strictly confidential.
Preliminary review of the manuscript: After the author registered in the
journal’s online submission system and uploaded the manuscript in accordance
with the process, editors would send the author acknowledgement letter for
receiving the submission within two weeks. If the author has not received any
notification from editors in 6 months, the manuscript would be handled by the
author itself. And the author need to inform the editorial office. Please avoid
duplicating manuscript submission.
Manuscript peer review: Science Research Management adopts double-blind peer review.The manuscript will be reviewed
by at least two parallel experts. On the premise the manuscript has no interest
contradiction and conflict with editors, the decision will be made by at least
two valid reviews, and the final result must ensure objectivity and
impartiality.
Article copyright: Author’s signed copyright agreement
must be completed before manuscript publication. Editors and editorial
staff have the right to amend manuscripts and possess the copyright of
published manuscript.
Proofreading before printing: Page proofs will be sent to
the corresponding author. The proofs must be corrected and returned within one
week of receipt otherwise publication may be delayed. Alteration to proofs
other than correction of typesetting errors may be in the charge of the
authors.
Academic ethics regulation: All members of the editorial
board and the editorial staff are required to supervise the academic ethics of
the journal, to ensure the manuscript is non-commercial and non-profit, the
argument is true and reliable, the evidence is highly scientific etc., to
maintain the high-standard and strict-requirement academic ethics regulation.
Whenever the editors receive a complaint about the publication's ethical issues, he should immediately take response measures to actively investigate, obtain evidence, and implement. If necessary, corrections, cancellations and other work need to be carried out.
For the main content or conclusion of the published article, if there is solid evidence to prove that there is a problem, the editor needs to carry out appropriate errata work.
Submission agreement: Author
contributing to the Journal will be considered as voluntary compliance with all
regulations of the manuscript. Author can appeal to editorial department for
the disagreement in review results, but cannot obtain any personal information
of peer reviewers in any approaches.
Academic standardization: Articles must be innovative;
argument shall be clear, scientific and logical; word using accurately and
concisely, reliable data; illustration with high clarity and readability;
content is informative; to comply with national legal units of measurement,
numbers, punctuation and other criteria.
Originality: Only articles never published before will be
accepted. Following situations are strictly forbidden: duplicate manuscript
submission; repeat submission (including submit in the different category);
plagiarism. Manuscript with any above situations will be rejected, the author
will be blacklisted and will inform his organization. Other relevant
professional journals will be informed as well. Any confidential matters
involved in the manuscript will be author’s liability.
Reviewer recommendation: The corresponding author is
invited to recommend no more than five reviewers for reference. Suggested
reviewers cannot be in the same organization with any author of submission and
the title of reviewer has to be associate professor or above. Suggested
reviewers cannot be familiar with each other, and cannot have cooperative
relationship.
Revising or withdrawing manuscript: Before publishing,
author has the right to modify the final draft. Mistakes found by the author
during any periods should be informed of editor. After editor’s review,
manuscript needs to be revised should be revised and sent back to editor in no
longer than 2 months. If there is difficulty in returning the manuscript on
time, the situation can be explained to editor. Without proper explanation, the
manuscript will be withdrawn without returning in 6 months.
Copyright transfer agreement: Article’s copyright belongs
to the author and the author takes full responsibility for his own writings. In
order to guarantee authorship and intellectual property, all authors should
sign on the "Copyright Transfer Agreement" according to article’s
publishing order. Editor and editorial staff have the right to amend the text
of submitted articles and possess the copyright of published manuscript. After
publishing, the author agreed to automatically transfer copyrights to the
journal, including electronic publishing, multimedia publishing, web publishing
and other rights in the form of publishing.
Fees: The journal does not charge review fee for manuscript processing.For
articles that have been accepted, this publication will charge a publishing
service fee.For published articles, the journal will pay a certain amount of
remuneration according to the appropriate method.
References: The author should list all the references and
financial supports of the manuscript to avoid confliction.
Sanctions:
Once a violation act mentioned above is found, even when the violations
occurred in other publications’ submission, the journal will implement the
following measures: The manuscript involving in violation will be immediately
rejected; all manuscripts written by authors of violating articles will be
immediately rejected; authors involve in violating manuscript will be abandoned
from submission in any identity, including the first author, the corresponding
author or the identity of other authors, in at least 5 years.
Above commitments and measures are effective from the date of release. Newsroom
editorial staff, all members of the editorial board, authors, reviewers,
publishers and the public have the right to supervise the implementation of
above commitments and measures.