1. Introduction
The ethical policies of the Journal of Modeling in Engineering are in accordance with the principles of the International Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE).
Dear researchers, you can access the detailed principles of the International Committee on Publication Ethics through the following address.
2. Duties and Responsibilities of Authors
Articles should be sent only in Persian language, correct writing, and appropriate terms and in compliance with all the rules and conditions of the journal.
The articles submitted by the authors should not be previously published in a journal or conference or under review.
All authors must be aware of and consent to submit articles to this journal.
Inserting the details of authors, affiliation and their e-mails must be done correctly.
All the details of the authors of the article in the journal system must be correctly entered when submitting it to the journal.
Authors should give permission to editors and editor in chief of the journal to edit the article in order to make it readable.
The discovery of any plagiarism in the articles will lead to its non-acceptance (at any stage) and the consequences will be directed at the authors.
Transcripts must not have been published elsewhere (except as an abstract or part of a lecture, review article, or dissertation) or under review by another journal.
The ethical commitment form must be signed by the authors.
Authors are obliged to inform the journal immediately whenever they notice an error in their work.
3. Duties and Responsibilities of the journal and publisher
Identification of and Dealing with Allegations of Misconduct
- The process of investigating “research and publication misconduct”:
In cases where the magazine proves any violation of ethical principles, the following actions should be taken:
4. Duties and Responsibilities of The Editor in chief and Editorial board
The editor in chief is responsible for deciding whether or not to publish an article in this journal.
The editor in chief and editorial board of this journal are committed to keep the received articles confidential until their publication.
The editor in chief and editorial board of this journal are committed to maintaining the anonymity of the reviewers.
The editor in chief and editorial board of this journal are obliged to review the received articles in terms of their compliance with the approved policies and laws of the journal. If an article does not have this principle, it will be removed from the agenda of the journal.
The editor in chief and editorial board of this journal are committed to have an unbiased view of the received articles without personal opinions.
Articles will be included in the agenda regardless of ethnic, racial, religious, regional issues and only based on scientific content and compliance with the rules of the journal.
In the peer review process, reviewers and authors cannot see each other's names and details.
The editor in chief and editorial board of this journal are obliged to comply with all the rules of the journal and the higher laws of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology regarding publications.
Unpublished Manuscript will not be used by the editorial board or other members for personal purposes.
5. Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers
The reviewers must be obliged and committed to protect the rights of the authors and to keep their articles and information confidential.
After accepting the reviewing of the article, the reviewers are obliged to send the result of the reviewing to the journal at the appointed time.
Reviewers are required to review the article only based on scientific, technical and specialized content and not to contribute their personal and ideological interests in it.
The reviewers are obliged to inform the journal of the misconduct of the authors in the articles, conflicts, copying of the whole or part of the text from other articles without respecting the copyright rights.
6. Journal’s policy on intellectual property
All intellectual property policies, including copyright and publishing licenses, are described below:
- License terms
The workings of the Creative Commons CC BY License, as stated on the Creative Commons website, is defined as below:
"This license lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most compatible of licenses for maximum publication and use of licensed materials."
This journal holds rights related to the publication of the articles and the this right are transfered to the journal by submitting the articles to the journal. In addition, the journal will be fully in charge for publication of the article in print, online, as a CD, in international indexes and domestic indexes. This right will be revoked only if the article is rejected or the author(s) withdraw from publication. For more information on the subject, please check the commitment form.
8. Policy on complaints and appeals
If the authors disagree with the editorial decision on their manuscripts, they have a right to appeal. Authors who wish to appeal an editorial decision should contact the Editor-in-Chief of the modeling in engineering. In such cases the Editor-in-Chief will review the manuscript, the editorial and peer reviewers' comments and gives his/her decision for accepting or rejecting a manuscript. Editor-in-Chief may, if so required, send the manuscript to a new handling editor for a fresh editorial review and to new reviewer for further peer reviewing. In such case, the final decision maker will be the Editorial board of the journal.
- How to Make a Complaint against the Staff of Journal, Editorial Board or Publisher
The procedure to make a complaint is easy. The complaint can be made by writing an e-mail. Please email to: modeling@semnan.ac.ir
All complaints will be acknowledged within three working days.
9. policies on data sharing and reproducibility
Authors may archive the final published version of their articles in personal or institutional repositories immediately after publication.
10. Post-Publication Discussions
This journal allows debate post publication on journal’s site, through "Send letter to the editor. Our mechanisms for correcting, revising or retracting articles after publication depends on the content of the received comment and must the sent comments are useful and applicable for readers/authors.
- Correction and retraction policy
The corrections must be made by the author during the revision step.
For Adding or Removing a new author to manuscript should be requested through the corresponding author and all authors must signature it.
Please bear in mind that:
Adding or Removing a new author to manuscript is possible before acceptance and publication.
Adding or Removing a new author to manuscript is impossible after acceptance and publication.
- Deceased Authors:
The policies of "modeling in engineering" in the case of deceased authors are as follows:
Before acceptance of the manuscripts The name of the deceased author can be removed from the manuscript according to the agreement of all of the authors. This decision is depended on the contribution of the deceased author and the final decision needs the approval of the editor of "modeling in engineering".
If the deceased author is the corresponding of the submitted manuscript, it is necessary to change the corresponding author. The new corresponding author must be selected with the consent of all authors.
After acceptance of the manuscripts removing or adding the name of the deceased author is not possible.
The authors can change the deceased corresponding author after acceptance. The new corresponding author must be selected with the consent of all authors.
It should be noted that the name of the deceased author should be mentioned in the footnote of the paper.
- Journal retracts a publication if: