Ethics in Publishing

Overview

Avestia is committed to ethics, integrity, and high standards in publishing. The following guidelines apply to authors, reviewers, editors, and publishing staff.

Editorial Board

An editorial board of experts is established to oversee the peer-review and publication process. Editors, editorial board members, chairs, or reviewers evaluate submitted manuscripts for relevance, technical and scientific merit, originality, and impact.

Evaluations are carried out regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, political beliefs, or institutional affiliation. Following peer review, the Editor-in-Chief has authority and responsibility for published content and the publication process.

Confidentiality and Conflicts of Interest

Editors and publishing staff may not disclose manuscripts or their content to anyone other than invited reviewers, other editors of the same publication, and publishing staff involved in the process.

Editors and publishing staff may not use the content of submitted manuscripts for their own research purposes without prior written consent from the authors.

Reviewer Responsibilities

Peer review helps editors make informed decisions about acceptance, revision, or rejection. Reviewers should notify editors promptly if they are unable or unqualified to review a manuscript.

• Reviews should be prompt, fair, objective, and supported by evidence or argument.
• Reviewers must keep manuscript contents confidential.
• Reviewers should identify technical issues, irregularities, missing citations, and similarity to published work.
• Reviewers must immediately disclose conflicts of interest based on competitive, collaborative, personal, family, or other relationships.

Author Responsibilities

Submitted papers must be based on clear objectives, discussion, and references. Findings, data, and arguments must be accurate, and authors are responsible for the authenticity of their data.

Only individuals who significantly contributed to the work and manuscript may be named as authors. All authors must agree to be named and to submit the manuscript. Other contributors may be acknowledged where appropriate.

Accuracy, Originality, and Plagiarism

Authors must describe their work and results accurately and in sufficient detail for readers to understand or replicate the work independently. Inaccurate, incomplete, fraudulent, and misleading statements are unacceptable and unethical.

Direct or indirect use of another person's work is not allowed unless properly cited. Presenting someone else's work as one's own is plagiarism and is strictly prohibited.

Dual Submissions and Conflicts

Submitting a manuscript to more than one venue at the same time is not allowed. Previously published work may not be presented as a new submission without significant new interpretation or analysis.

Authors must disclose factors outside the research scope that may have influenced the work, including funding, grants, advisory roles, consulting, stock ownership, employment, memberships, or other relationships.

Human, Animal, and Hazardous Material

Work involving human or animal subjects must follow institutional guidelines and receive required approvals. Consent and privacy protections must be specified clearly in the manuscript.

Manuscripts involving hazardous chemicals, materials, or devices must identify those risks clearly.

Mistakes, Errata, and Retractions

If an author identifies a major error in a published paper, the author must immediately inform the publisher. Avestia determines case by case whether an erratum should clarify a correction or whether a paper should be retracted.

Unethical behavior, plagiarism, academic misconduct, or scientific misconduct may result in retraction. Unintended mistakes may result in an erratum.

Content, Archiving, and Access

Avestia preserves and stores content digitally through long-term digital archiving practices.

Avestia journals are open access. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles without prior permission from the publisher or author, in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Avestia journals are managed and operated by International ASET and Avestia Publishing, the publishing arm of ASET. Journals follow a continuous publication model, with papers published online as soon as they are accepted.