Publication Ethics
Journal Ethical Statement
Transparency
- Funding for any type and all research funders should be listed on all publications.
- All sources of support should be listed on all publications.
- Any possible conflict of interest should be disclosed (financial, personal, political, intellectual, or religious).
Authorship
- List of authors of all publications should truthfully reflect who actually did the presented research.
- Papers that present new syntheses of research that have already been published should reference the primary data sources.
- By submitting paper to E-LOGOS Journal authors declare that the paper has not been published elsewhere.
- Papers should not contain any text or ideas which have been copied without appropriate attribution to the works of others.
- Editorial board monitors editorial process to prevent duplicate, plagiarized or fraudulent papers from being published.
Editorial process
- Principles of editorial process are described in section For authors.
- Editors and reviewers are required to apply consistent standards in the peer-review processes.
- Editors and reviewers are never be involved in editorial decisions about their own work.
- Editors monitor the performance of peer reviewers and maintain a database of qualified peer reviewers.
- Reviewers are required to have suitable qualification, expertise in one or several areas, objectivity and good judgment.
- Editors protect the confidentiality of individual information.
- Editorial board monitors editorial process to avoid any conflict of interest.
Respecting dignity
- Editors exercise sensitivity when publishing texts that might have cause offence.
Misconduct
- If editors or peer reviewers raise concerns of any misconduct paper will not be published until all such concerns are fully clarified.
- If there is suspicion of misconduct authors will be informed and have right to respond.
- Editors inform readers if ethical misconduct have occurred in published work.
- Editors or authors publish corrections (errata) if ethical misconduct have occurred in published work.
- Editors may ‘retract’ published paper in cases of serious misconduct.
- Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes, in case of detection.
- It is forbidden to publish same research in more than one journal.