The Journal of Scientific Advances (JSA) is committed to maintaining academic integrity, research honesty, originality, transparency, scientific accuracy, and responsible scholarly communication. The journal expects authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial contributors to follow ethical publication practices at every stage of submission, review, decision-making, and publication.
This statement explains the ethical responsibilities of authors, reviewers, editors, and the journal in relation to originality, plagiarism, authorship, data integrity, conflict of interest, peer review, correction, retraction, withdrawal, and publication malpractice.
Ethical Commitment of the Journal
JSA supports genuine scientific and interdisciplinary research. All submitted manuscripts should be original, properly referenced, ethically prepared, and written according to accepted academic and scientific standards.
Originality
Submitted manuscripts must be original and should not contain copied, duplicate, or previously published material without citation.
Scientific Integrity
Authors must present data, methods, analysis, results, findings, and conclusions honestly and accurately.
Fair Review
Manuscripts should be evaluated fairly on scientific quality, methodology, clarity, originality, and contribution.
Proper Citation
All sources, ideas, data, quotations, tables, figures, and references used in the manuscript must be acknowledged.
Confidentiality
Submitted manuscripts, reviewer comments, and editorial communication must be handled confidentially.
Responsible Decision
Editorial decisions should be based on scope, originality, ethics, reviewer comments, and journal standards.
Duties of Authors
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts are original, accurate, ethical, properly cited, and not submitted elsewhere at the same time.
- Authors must submit only original and unpublished scientific or academic work.
- The manuscript should not be under review by another journal at the same time.
- All sources, quotations, ideas, data, tables, figures, models, and third-party material must be properly cited.
- Authors must not fabricate, falsify, manipulate, or misrepresent research data, laboratory records, observations, or findings.
- All listed authors must have made a meaningful academic, intellectual, analytical, research, experimental, or writing contribution.
- Authors must disclose conflicts of interest, funding sources, institutional support, and acknowledgments where applicable.
- Authors should cooperate with editorial and reviewer comments during the revision process.
- Authors should inform the journal immediately if they discover any major error in submitted or published work.
Originality, Plagiarism and Duplicate Publication
The journal does not accept plagiarism, copied content, duplicate submission, duplicate publication, self-plagiarism, improper paraphrasing, or unauthorized use of another person’s work.
- Manuscripts may be checked for similarity and originality.
- Copied text, data, images, tables, figures, or diagrams without citation is considered unethical.
- Scientific data, laboratory results, models, equations, frameworks, and analytical findings taken from other sources must be properly acknowledged.
- Authors should not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time.
- Authors should not divide one study into multiple papers in a misleading way.
- Manuscripts with serious plagiarism or unethical copying may be rejected.
Unacceptable Practices
- Plagiarism or copied content
- Duplicate submission
- Fabricated or falsified data
- Misleading analysis or conclusions
- Improper authorship claims
- Use of sources without citation
Expected Practices
- Original scientific writing
- Clear methodology and analysis
- Accurate references and citations
- Honest reporting of results
- Disclosure of conflicts where applicable
- Respect for editorial and review process
Authorship Policy
Authorship should be given only to individuals who have made a real and meaningful contribution to the manuscript. Authorship must not be used as a formality, favour, or honorary recognition.
- All authors should approve the final version before submission.
- The corresponding author is responsible for communication with the journal.
- Guest authorship, gift authorship, honorary authorship, and ghost authorship are not acceptable.
- Any change in authorship after submission should be clearly justified and approved by all authors.
- All authors are responsible for the accuracy, originality, and ethical preparation of the submitted work.
Duties of Editors
Editors are responsible for maintaining fairness, confidentiality, quality, and integrity throughout the editorial process.
- Editors should evaluate manuscripts based on academic merit, scientific quality, originality, relevance, and journal scope.
- Editors should make decisions without discrimination, personal bias, or unfair influence.
- Editors must protect the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and editorial communication.
- Editors should not handle manuscripts where they have a conflict of interest.
- Editors may reject manuscripts that do not meet ethical, academic, originality, or publication standards.
- Editors should take suitable action if plagiarism, data concerns, authorship disputes, or malpractice issues are identified.
Duties of Reviewers
Reviewers support the journal by providing objective, respectful, and constructive comments that help improve manuscript quality.
- Reviewers should evaluate manuscripts fairly according to scientific merit, subject relevance, and research quality.
- Reviewer comments should be clear, useful, professional, and relevant to the manuscript.
- Reviewers must keep submitted manuscripts and review communication confidential.
- Reviewers should inform the editor about suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, weak methodology, data problems, or ethical concerns.
- Reviewers should not use unpublished manuscript content for personal, academic, professional, or commercial benefit.
- Reviewers should decline review invitations if they have a conflict of interest or lack suitable expertise.
Conflict of Interest
Authors, reviewers, and editors should disclose any real or potential conflict of interest that may affect manuscript preparation, review, decision-making, or publication.
- Conflicts may be personal, academic, professional, financial, institutional, or commercial.
- Authors should disclose funding and institutional support where applicable.
- Reviewers and editors should not participate in a manuscript process where a conflict exists.
- Undisclosed conflicts may lead to editorial action.
Research Ethics and Data Integrity
Manuscripts should be prepared with honesty and respect for research ethics. Authors must ensure that experiments, observations, surveys, fieldwork, laboratory records, institutional data, statistical analysis, and scientific interpretation are presented accurately.
- Research data should not be invented, altered, hidden, or manipulated.
- Laboratory, field, survey, interview, institutional, or computational data should be collected and presented responsibly.
- Permission, consent, or ethical approval should be mentioned where applicable.
- Personal, institutional, clinical, environmental, or sensitive information should not be disclosed without proper authorization.
- Findings and conclusions should be supported by the study evidence.
Publication Malpractice
The journal treats publication malpractice seriously. If unethical conduct is identified before or after publication, the editorial team may take suitable action according to the nature and seriousness of the case.
| Plagiarism | Copying text, ideas, data, tables, figures, images, models, or findings without proper acknowledgment. |
| Duplicate Submission | Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time. |
| Data Fabrication | Creating false data, observations, experimental records, survey responses, scientific findings, or research evidence. |
| Data Falsification | Changing, hiding, or manipulating data, methods, results, figures, or conclusions in a misleading way. |
| Improper Authorship | Including authors who did not contribute or excluding contributors who should be credited. |
| Misleading Citation | Using references inaccurately, citing sources not used, or omitting important source acknowledgment. |
Corrections, Retractions and Withdrawals
If an error or ethical concern is found in a submitted or published manuscript, the journal may consider correction, clarification, withdrawal, or retraction depending on the situation.
- A correction may be issued for genuine errors that do not affect the main validity of the article.
- A retraction may be considered when serious plagiarism, data fabrication, unethical authorship, or major misconduct is confirmed.
- A withdrawal request may be considered for manuscripts under review according to journal policy and editorial approval.
- The journal may publish an editorial notice where clarification is required for the scholarly record.
Confidentiality
Submitted manuscripts, unpublished data, reviewer comments, editorial decisions, revision files, author communication, research data, tables, figures, and review records are treated as confidential. Editors, reviewers, and editorial staff must not share or use unpublished content for personal or professional advantage.
Final Responsibility
Authors are responsible for the originality, accuracy, ethical compliance, citation quality, and scientific integrity of their manuscripts. The editorial team is responsible for fair review, responsible decision-making, confidentiality, and maintaining publication standards.
Important Note
Submission of a manuscript to the Journal of Scientific Advances confirms that the authors agree to follow the journal’s publication ethics, malpractice statement, authorship standards, originality requirements, peer review process, confidentiality rules, and final editorial decision.