Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Ethical standards for publication exist to ensure high-quality scientific publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that people receive credit for their ideas. The prevention of publication malpractice is one of the important responsibilities of the editorial board. The journal will not consider any paper which is ethically unacceptable. (The guidelines are based on Elsevier policies and COPE‟s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors). We have great respect and we generally follow the guidelines, given by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE); Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers for any publication disputes, authorship disputes, etc. For these kinds of disputes, we generally visit and follow the COPE website and author(s) are also requested to do so. Excellent guidelines, related to COPE’s Code of Conduct and its advice to tackle cases of suspected misconduct, are available in this link (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).

Plagiarism

The Editorial Board of our journal will immediately screen all articles submitted for publication in that journal. Plagiarism is not limited to the Results and Discussion sections; it can involve any part of the manuscript, including figures and tables, in which material is copied from another publication without attestation, reference, or permission. Note that wording does not have to be exact to be copyright infringement; use of very similar words in almost the same sequence can also be infringement. Any suspected misconduct ends up with a quick rejection. We are using the commercial tool Dupli Checker to check the plagiarism.

Redundant or duplicate publication

Duplicate or redundant publication is a publication that overlaps substantially with one already published, in press, or in an electronic media submission.

Duplicate or redundant submission is the same manuscript (or the same data) that is submitted to different journals at the same time. International copyright laws, ethical conduct, and cost effective use of resources require that readers can be assured that what they are reading is original.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published or currently submitted elsewhere. Duplicate publication is a violation of the APA code of ethics (APA Publication Manual, 2010) and will be grounds for prompt rejection of the submitted manuscript. If the editor was not aware of the violation and the article has been published, a notice of duplicate submission and the ethical violation will be published.

Article Withdrawal policy

Discovery publication has its own article withdrawal & substitution policy. According to our policy, we will not withdraw any published articles & not allow the authors to submit substitution article instead of previoly accepted and OR peer reviewed article & will not issue refunds of any kind. If the author wishes to withdraw the article after the acceptance mail or once we start to process the article or before the publication, authors are solely responsible for the preparation of the article. For the preparation of the article the author have to pay the fee. Discovery Publication will not issue refunds of any kind. Its mandatory. Instead of the accepted and OR peer reviewed article we wont accept any substitution article. In this case, if the author wish to withdraw the accepted and OR peer reviewed article and they submit another (substitute) article to process means that article will consider as a new article. This substitution & withrawal causes because of the un-ethical multiple submissions (submission of article to multiple journals at the same time) by the AUTHORS, so the authors are solely responsible for this kind of issues. Discovery publication will not accept any kind of un-ethical issues.

Article Retraction policy

Infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like. Occasionally a retraction will be used to correct errors in submission or publication.The retraction of an article by its authors or the editor under the advice of members of the scholarly community has long been an occasional feature of the learned world. A retraction note is titled as “Retracted: [article title]” signed by the authors and/or the editor is published in the same issue of the journal and listed in the contents list. The original article data will be removed and indicate as “retracted” in watermark on the pdf file. The HTML version of the document is removed.

Publication decisions

The editors ensure that all submitted manuscripts being considered for publication undergo peer-review by at least two reviewers who are expert in the field. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for deciding which of the manuscripts submitted to the journal will be published, based on the validation of the work in question, its importance to researchers and readers, the reviewers’ comments, and such legal requirements as are currently in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The Editor-in-Chief may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Conflict of Interests

A conflict of interest exists if authors or their institutions have financial or personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their actions. A conflict can be actual or potential, and full disclosure to the Editor is absolute requirement. All submissions must include disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest.

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. If there are no competing interests in their submitted manuscripts, authors should state so explicitly: "The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest."

Funding Sources

Corresponding Author are responsible for identifying and declaring all funding sources received for the research submitted to the journal. Corresponding Author has to provide the Funder, Award Number and Grant Recipient while submitting the manuscript. If there are no funders to be identified the corresponding author must state "This study has not received any external funding". The Corresponding Author is responsible to completing this on behalf of all authors on the research submitted to the journal and should ensure complete accuracy.

Data and Materials Availability Statement

Indian Journal of Engineering encourages that all data and materials (including computer codes) necessary to understand, assess and extend the conclusions of the manuscript are made publicly available after publication. All reasonable requests and applications for data or materials should be considered by authors.

Authorship

Authorship confers credit and has important academic, social, and financial implications. Authorship also implies responsibility and accountability for published work. Honorary or guest authorship is not acceptable. Co-first authorship and co-corresponding authorship is not acceptable. Individuals who have participated in generation of the research paper but who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section of a paper alongside a brief indication of the nature of their contribution.

Copyrights

The copyrights of all papers published in this journal are retained by the respective authors as per the 'Creative Commons Attribution License'. The author(s) should be the sole author(s) of the article and should have full authority to enter into agreement and in granting rights to Discovery Publication, which are not in breach of any other obligation. The author(s) should ensure the integrity of the paper and related works. Authors should mandatorily ensure that submission of manuscript to Discovery Publication would result into no breach of contract or of confidence or of commitment given to secrecy.

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