Ethical Policy
MIARD aims to ensure that best practices and ethical standards are maintained by journal editors, authors, and reviewers. MIARD editors and reviewers are required to assess manuscripts fairly and maintain confidentiality. Authors must ensure that research submitted to MIARD journals is their own original work and is not under consideration or accepted for publication elsewhere.
The Journal of Arts & Linguistics Studies adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines.
Authorship of Manuscript:
Only persons who meet proper authorship criteria should be listed as authors in the manuscript as they must be able to take public responsibility for the content:
- made significant contributions to the conception, design, execution, data acquisition, or analysis/interpretation of the study; and
- drafted the manuscript or revised it critically for important intellectual content; and
- have seen and approved the final version of the paper and agreed to its submission for publication.
Those who do not meet the criteria for authorship must not be listed as an author but should be acknowledged in the "Acknowledgements" section after their written permission to be named has been obtained. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list and verify that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to its submission for publication.
Duplication of Submission/Publication:
Papers describing essentially the same research should not be published in more than one journal or primary publication. Hence, authors should not submit for consideration a manuscript that has already been published in another journal. Submission of a manuscript concurrently to more than one journal is unethical publishing behavior and unacceptable. The Journal of Arts and Linguistics Studies does not publish work previously published as Conference Proceedings.
Conflicts of Interest:
Authors should, at the time of initial submission, disclose any conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or their interpretation of the manuscript. Some examples of potential conflicts that should be disclosed include financial ones such as honoraria, educational grants, or other funding, as well as non-financial ones such as personal or professional relationships. All sources of financial support for the work should be disclosed.
Complaints Procedures:
Should authors discover significant errors/inaccuracies in their own published work, it is their obligation to notify the journal’s editors or publisher and cooperate with them to either correct the paper in the form of an erratum or to retract the paper.
If it is learned from a third party that a published work contains a significant error or inaccuracy, then it is the author's obligation to promptly correct or retract the paper or provide evidence to the journal editors of the correctness of the paper.
Acknowledgment of Sources:
Authors should ensure that they have properly acknowledged the work of others and should also cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately (conversations or correspondence with others) must not be used or reported without explicit, documented permission. Authors should not use information obtained in the course of providing confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts, unless they have obtained explicit permission to do so.
Plagiarism:
Manuscript submissions are checked with Turnitin anti-plagiarism software for exact or near-exact matches in the public domain to satisfy the Editor that the submitted manuscript has not been plagiarized. However, when authors submit their manuscripts for consideration in the Journal, they declare that their work is not plagiarized. While the Editor makes reasonable efforts to determine the academic integrity of papers published in the Journal, ultimate responsibility for the originality of submitted manuscripts thus lies with the author.
Plagiarism takes place when one author deliberately uses another’s work without permission, credit, or acknowledgment. Authors must always remember that crediting the work of others (including your advisor’s or your own previous work) is paramount. Authors should always place their work in the context of the advancement of the field and acknowledge the findings of others on which you have built your research.
Publication Malpractice Statement
Concerned with the increase of plagiarism, fraud, and misconduct in academic publishing, the Editor, and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Arts & Linguistics Studies officially endorse the position statements for editors and authors:
for Editors:
- Editors are accountable and should take responsibility for everything they publish
- Editors should make fair and unbiased decisions independent from commercial consideration and ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process
- Editors should adopt editorial policies that encourage maximum transparency and complete, honest reporting
- Editors should guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions when needed and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct
- Editors should pursue reviewer and editorial misconduct.
for authors:
- The research being reported should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation
- Researchers should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification, or inappropriate data manipulation
- Researchers should strive to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others
- Researchers should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarized, and has not been published elsewhere
- Authors should take collective responsibility for submitted and published work
- The manuscript must contain nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libelous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.
Editors and reviewers will ensure that articles submitted to the journal are original studies that have not been submitted anywhere else. Manuscripts will be fairly and objectively reviewed; authors will receive corrections and suggestions relatively quickly depending on the availability and expertise of reviewers.
Publisher Responsiblity:
In cases of alleged or proven misconduct, fraudulent publication including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others, the journal editor will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification or, in the most severe case, the retraction of the affected work. The publisher, together with the editors, shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, and under no circumstances encourage such misconduct or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.
If a journal’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article in their journal, the publisher or editor shall follow COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.
