PUBLICATION ETHICS

Publishing Ethics and Plagiarism Policy

Applied Science and Engineering Progress’s Publication Ethics is based on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE : https://publicationethics.org/) and other relevant organizations to ensure the integrity and validity of the published research.

The brief guidelines established by COPE for authors, reviewers, and editors include:

1. Research integrity: All research must be conducted in an ethical and transparent manner, with a focus on scientific logical and reproducibility. Fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism are unacceptable and lead to retraction of published articles if the evidence is presented and validated.

2. Publication ethics: Journals and publishers should establish clear policies and guidelines for ethical conduct, including processes for handling allegations of misconduct of ethical standards.

3. Conflicts of interest: Authors, reviewers, and editors should declare any potential conflicts of interest, including financial, personal, or institutional affiliations that could influence the research or its publication.

4. Peer review: The peer review process should be transparent and unbias. Reviewers should provide constructive feedback and avoid personal or biased comments.

5. Data and reproducibility: Authors should provide access and sufficient details to the data and methods used in their research to allow for transparency and reproducibility of the findings.

6. Authorship and contributorship: Authors should be acknowledged for their contributions to the work. All authors should review and approve the final manuscript for publication. Gift authorship is unacceptable.

The publication of scientific research involves systematic and comprehensive processes by the authors, reviewers, publishers and editors with efficient and competent manner. To keep publishing ethical standards, the publisher works closely with journal editors, authors and peer-reviewers. Applied Science and Engineering Progress assigns ethics responsibility of each publishing partners as follows:

 

Editors responsibilities:

• The editor and/or editorial committee hold a position to make final decisions on peer-reviewed articles submitted for publication.

• The editor maintains the transparency of the academic research with ethical standards, and always be willing to publish retractions and erratum when it is notified and requested.

• The editor should assess manuscripts for their scientific quality and intellectual content, free from any biased decisions.

• The editor should evaluate manuscripts based on their academic merit and free of any commercial or self-interests.

• The editor should not distribute any information regarding submitted manuscripts before publication.

• The editor should investigate promptly and in detail with suitable authority, if the publisher suspects any kind of misconduct in research.

 

Reviewers responsibilities:

• The reviewer provides a detailed, constructive, and unbiased evaluation within a period of assigned time by editor on the scientific content of the work.

• The reviewer evaluates the assigned manuscript whether the writing is the originality as well as scientific accuracy.

• The reviewer should not distribute any information regarding submitted manuscripts before publication.

• The reviewer promptly reports the editor about any conflict of interest and declines to review the manuscript.

• The reviewer notifies the editor when finding any evidence of research misconduct in submitted manuscripts.

 

Authors responsibilities:

• All the work reported in the manuscript must be original and free from any kind of plagiarism content.

• The work should not have been published elsewhere or submitted to any other journal at the same time.

• Any conflict of interest must be clearly declared.

• Acknowledgements must be clearly declared including funding agency.

• Permission must be obtained for any content used from other sources.

• Only those who have made any substantial contribution to the submitted work should be listed as authors.

• Ghostwriter or gifted authorship are prohibited.

 

Plagiarism policy

Plagiarism and self-copying contents are absolutely prohibited in Applied Science and Engineering Progress. All the papers submitted have to pass through screening through the plagiarism detection software.

 

Ethics of human and animal experimentation

Those articles which are describing experimental work on humans or animals should submit approval of the ethical committee of the institution where the actual work was carried out. The research must meet the applicable international standards of the ethics of experimentation and research integrity. Authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation. For research involving animals, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the standards set forth in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.

 

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other parties.

 

Publication Malpractice and allegations of research misconducts and ethical concerns      

ASEP is committed to achieve the highest standards of research integrity and ethical publishing practices. We will not accept any academic misconduct, including plagiarism, data fabrication, and improper authorship attribution. We follow the guideline of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) or equivalent standards.

In cases of suspected misconduct or when the journal office receives the report, ASEP will investigate the case and take action to appropriately response including publishing retraction or erratum articles. ASEP editors and reviewers are informed and reminded about the COPE guideline and encouraged to report any concerns or suspicions of misconduct. Once the journal office receives the report of suspicions, we will bring the case to editorial board and Editor-in-Chief to investigate the case based on COPE’s guideline or equivalent standards. The suspected authors will be informed for the case and will be requested to submit the response to clarify the allegations. If the investigation confirmed the present of misconduct, appropriate actions will be taken, including publishing of retraction, erratum, correction, as guided by COPE's guidelines or equivalent standards. On the other hand, if allegations found to be unsubstantiated, the case will be dismissed, and all parties involved in the case will be informed for the decision. During case investigation, ASEP will maintain the case details with confidential to protect privacy and reputations of all involved stakeholders. ASEP readers and peer communities are encourage to not tolerant to suspicious misconduct and ethical concerns. Your feedback plays a crucial role in upholding the integrity of our journal and ensuring responsible publishing practices. The case can be reported to journal office email (asep@op.kmutnb.ac.th).