Scientific papers submitted to the Social Sciences Research Journal (SSRJ) should take into account the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the International Standards for Editors and Writers of the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).
A selection of key points is included below, but you should always refer to the documents listed above for full details.
1. Editorial Board
- SSRJ has editorial boards or other governing bodies whose members are recognized
experts in the field. The full names and affiliations of the members is given
on the journal’s Web site.
- It is given contact information for the
editorial office on the SSRJ’s Web site.
2. Authors and Authors Responsibilities
- Authors are obliged to participate in
peer review process.
- All authors have significantly
contributed to the research.
- All authors are obliged to provide
retractions or corrections of mistakes.
- List of references, financial support.
- Forbidden to publish same research in
more than one journal.
- In writing citation and bibliography, the
APA 6 editorial guidelines should be considered.
-The author (s) must have evidence that
they have the necessary permissions for the use rights of the data used
research / measurement tools / analyzes.
3. Peer-review Process
- All of SSRJ’s content is subjected to
peer-review.
- Peer-review is defined as obtaining
advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers’ expert in the field.
- Judgments are objective.
- Reviewers should have no conflict of
interest.
- Reviewers should point out relevant
published work which is not yet cited.
- Reviewed articles should be treated
confidentially.
4. Publication Ethics
- Publishers and editors shall take
reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where
research misconduct has occurred.
- In no case shall SSRJ or its editors
encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.
- In the event that a journal’s publisher
or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the
publisher or editor shall deal with allegations appropriately.
- The journal applies guidelines for
retracting or correcting articles when needed.
- Publishers and editors always are willing
to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.
- Manuscripts that are found to have been
plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or
unpublished, will incur plagiarism sanctions.
5. Copyright and Access
- Copyright and licensing information belongs
to SSRJ.
- SSRJ and individual articles are not
available to readers pay-per-view fees.
6. Archiving
- SSRJ’s plan for electronic backup and
preservation of access to SSRJ content in the event SSRJ is no longer
published: Denta Florya ADSM Limited Company electronic backup and preservation.
Further Principles of Transparency and Best Practice
7. Ownership and Management
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Information about the ownership and/or management of SSRJ is clearly
indicated on the journal’s Web site.
- Publishers shall not use organizational
names that would mislead potential authors and editors about the nature of the
journal’s owner.
8. Web Site
- SSRJ’s Web site, including the text that
it contains, is ensure high ethical and professional standards.
9. Publishing Schedule
- For serial publications, the periodicity
at which SSRJ publishes is clearly indicated on the journal’s Web site.
10. Name of Journal
- The Journal name is unique and not is one
that is easily confused with another journal or that might mislead potential
authors and readers about the Journal’s origin or association with other
journals.