Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics Policy: Italian Egyptian Journals follows (IEJ) clear ethical standards for publication to ensure high-quality scientific work and to enhance public trust in their findings. Thus, Italian Egyptian Journals apply this policy to all its owned journals in adherence to the Best Practice Guidelines. This policy should be read with our guidelines for authors and reviewers.

Italian Egyptian Journals go through a robust process to detect and prevent misconduct practices. Well-known and specialized experts are selected to run this process, which at the end leads to reliable and accurate manuscripts with informative findings and valuable applications. Italian Egyptian Journals are highly strict in handling violations of these professional guidelines. All submitted manuscripts must be original and not in a process of consideration elsewhere (for example in other journals or conference proceedings).

1. Editorial Standards and Processes

Each Italian Egyptian Journals adopt well-defined standards of authorship disclosed in the section of “For Authors”. Authors and co-authors are required to meet these standards and confirm that all who met these standards are still listed under the list of authors.

  • Authorship: Published work must be attributed to one or more authors who are complied with authorship standards. A description of each author contribution should be summarized in a statement titled “Authors Contributions

  • Fund and Support: Authors are requested to disclose any received fund or support from an individual or organization in the “Acknowledgment” section.

2. Peer-review Process

To ensure robust, objective, confidentiality, Italian Egyptian Journals are free of conflicts of the interest peer-review process, Italian Egyptian Journals adopt the international policies of peer-review process (i.e. single-blind or double-blind, reviewers selection, conflict of interest, response time).

  • Reviewers Selection: Authors have to provide the list of the potential reviewers in their cover letter and the uploading system. Italian Egyptian Journals have the right to adopt the same list of provided reviewers or switch to another.

  • Peer-review Conflict of Interest: Any conflict of interest should be reported directly to the editors as soon as receiving the invitation to review manuscripts.

  • Confidentiality during Manuscript Handling: To ensure utmost confidentiality; Italian Egyptian Journal’s editors don’t share Manuscripts with any third party except the peer reviewers.

  • Manuscript Handling Time: Strictly rules are adopted by the Italian Egyptian Journal’s editors to ensure timely process and update authors of any possible delays.

3. Publication Ethics:

Research integrity is at the top of Italian Egyptian Journal’s priorities; so they make every effort to identify, detect and prevent any breach of the ethical code.

  • Misconduct: Italian Egyptian Journal’s editors make every effort to identify, detect and prevent any practices of data fabrication, authorship abuse, falsification, image manipulation, unethical research, plagiarism, biased reporting, duplicate publication, and undeclared conflicts of interest.

  • Fabrication, Falsification and Image Manipulation: All Italian Egyptian Journals make every effort to identify, detect and prevent data fabrication, falsification and image manipulation by implementing advances image processing systems. Except for some cases where it is necessary to manipulate the image, and in this case adores having to explain where manipulation has been done.

  • Plagiarism: Italian Egyptian Journal’s editors make every effort to ensure that manuscripts are original material and prevent any practices of plagiarism and duplicate of publication. If such practices detected, authors are informed to handle them.

  • Duplicate Submission: To make sure that all manuscripts are not being published elsewhere, Italian Egyptian Journal’s journals make every effort to identify, detect and prevent concurrent or duplicate submission. If such practices detected, Italian Egyptian Journals apply strict actions and sanctions against these authors i.e papers are withdrawn from the website.

  • Sanctions: If any violations of the publication ethics or professional codes are detected, then strict action is taken, according to Italian Egyptian Journals procedure for dealing with unethical behavior as follows:

                          a)- A warning letter to the author covering the misconduct. Immediate rejection of the submitted manuscript.

                          b)- Probation period is applied to all responsible authors regarding any further submission to Italian Egyptian Journals.

                          c)- Probation period is applied to all responsible authors regarding serving as referees/reviewers for Italian Egyptian journals.

                          d)- Publication of a formal notice detailing the misconduct.

                          e)- A professional letter to the chairman of the authors or reviewers department or funding agency.

                          f)- Formal retraction or withdrawal of a publication from the journal.

                         g)-Reporting the case and outcome to a professional organization or higher authority for further investigation and action.

                        h)- Further sanctions may be imposed, if violations of the above policies are found to be serious.

  • Editors and Board Members as Authors: Italian Egyptian Journal’s adopt well-defined procedures and police to exclude editors from publication decisions when they are authors.

  • Conflicts of Interest: To ensure objectivity in the review procedure, editors and peer reviewers are requested to disclose that there is no any conflict of interest.

  • Libel and Defamation: Italian Egyptian Journal’s editors make every effort to identify, detect and prevent any certain language or expression either in the manuscripts or peer reviewer reports that would lead to legal action for defamation and negligent misstatement.

  • Editorial Independence and Commercial Issues: To ensure a formal relationship between the editors and the publisher (Italian Egyptian Journals ), Each Italian Egyptian Journal adopted policies and established mechanisms to avoid biased decisions that financially influenced by authors.

  • Academic Debate: Comments or constructive criticism of any published work are allowed by all Italian Egyptian journals. If such practice occurred, authors are informed to respond before the comments are published.

  • Appeals: To appeal against editorial decisions, authors refer to the international-based mechanism that is adopted by Italian Egyptian Journals.

  • Corrections: Italian Egyptian Journals welcome authors or readers to notify the journal editorial office if any errors discovered in the published work. If such occurred, editors and authors are notified to correct these errors, then an erratum will be published in an issue in the same journal.

4. Research Ethics in Journal Articles

  • Human Rights, Privacy, and Confidentiality: Outcomes of clinical trial studies must be officially registered with public health authority in the country. Otherwise, the authors are requested to a letter of explanation.

  • Cultures and Heritage: Italian Egyptian Journal’s editors make every effort to identify, detect and prevent publishing any images or texts that related to religious or historical events that could be offensive to some social groups.

  • Reporting Guidelines: Italian Egyptian Journal’s editors and peer reviewers make every effort to ensure that the necessary information is available in the submitted manuscripts for the purpose of evaluation by readers.

5. Copyright and Access

  • Copyright and Licensing Information: Copyright and licensing are clearly described on the Italian Egyptian journal’s website (in the guidelines for authors). By submitting a manuscript for publication to the journal, authors acknowledge that the work is original and is not being submitted to another journal. The submission of a manuscript by the authors implies that the authors automatically agree to assign exclusive copyright to Italian Egyptian Journals if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication.

  • Archiving: Italian Egyptian Journals are a member of CrossRef which gives Italian Egyptian journals the ability to create and deposit digital object identifiers (DOIs) for the content we produce. We allocate DOIs to our publications by depositing bibliographic metadata for each article with CrossRef while citing metadata that includes the current location of the journal on the website.

  • Author Self-Archiving Policy: Authors may upload their accepted manuscript PDF to institutional and/or centrally organized repositories, but must stipulate that public availability be delayed until 6 months after the first online publication in the journal has elapsed.

  • Ownership and management: Italian Egyptian Journals clearly provide information about the ownership and/or management of all its journals on the journal’s website.

  • The website: Italian Egyptian journals’ websites have been created and maintained to ensure high ethical and professional standards are applied.

  • Publishing schedule: Italian Egyptian Journals clearly indicates on the first page of each journal's website the publication frequency, i.e. the periodicity at which the issues of the journal are published.

  • Name of the journal: Italian Egyptian Journals select very carefully each journal's name, which must be unique and reflective of the broad scope of the journal. A given journal's name is selected to avoid confusion with other journal(s) while not misleading potential authors and readers about the journal’s origin or organization with other journals.