Publication Ethics Policy according to COPE: The journal is following the instructions of COPE, and clear ethical standards for publication to ensure high-quality scientific work and to enhance public trust in their findings. Thus, The Journal apply this policy to all its owned journals in adherence to the Best Practice Guidelines. This policy should be read with our guidelines for authors and reviewers. The Journals go through a robust process to detect and prevent misconduct practices. Well-known and specialized experts are selected to run this process, which at the end leads to reliable and accurate manuscripts with informative findings and valuable applications. The Journals are highly strict in handling violations of these professional guidelines. All submitted manuscripts must be original and not in a process of consideration elsewhere (for example in other journals or conference proceedings).
The journal adopts well-defined standards of authorship disclosed in the section “For Authors”. Authors and co-authors are required to meet these standards and confirm that all who met these standards are still listed under the list of authors.1.1. Authorship: Published work must be attributed to one or more authors who comply with authorship standards. A description of each author's contribution should be summarized in a statement titled “Authors Contributions1.2. Fund and Support: Authors are requested to disclose any received fund or support from an individual or organization in the “Acknowledgment” section.
To ensure robust, objective, and confidentiality, the Journals are free of conflicts of interest peer-review process, and the Journal adopts the international policies of the peer-review process (i.e. single-blind or double-blind, reviewers selection, conflict of interest, response time). 2.1. Reviewers Selection: Authors have to provide the list of potential reviewers in their cover letter and the uploading system. The Journals have the right to adopt the same list of provided reviewers or switch to another.2.2. Peer-review Conflict of Interest: Any conflict of interest should be reported directly to the editors as soon as receiving the invitation to review manuscripts.2.3. Confidentiality during Manuscript Handling: To ensure utmost confidentiality; the Journal’s editors don’t share Manuscripts with any third party except the peer reviewers.2.4. Manuscript Handling Time: Strictly rules are adopted by The Journal’s editors to ensure timely process and update authors of any possible delays.
Research integrity is at the top of the Journal’s priorities; so they make every effort to identify, detect, and prevent any breach of the ethical code.
3.1. Misconduct: The Journal’s editors make every effort to identify, detect, and prevent any practices of data fabrication, authorship abuse, falsification, image manipulation, unethical research, plagiarism, biased reporting, duplicate publication, and undeclared conflicts of interest. 3.2. Fabrication, Falsification, and Image Manipulation: All TheJournals makes every effort to identify, detect and prevent data fabrication, falsification and image manipulation by implementing advanced image processing systems. Except for some cases where it is necessary to manipulate image, and in this case adores have to explain where manipulation has been done.3.3. Plagiarism: TheJournal’s editors make every effort to ensure that manuscripts are original material and prevent any practices of plagiarism and duplicate of publication. If such practices are detected, authors are informed to handle them.3.4. Duplicate Submission: To make sure that all manuscripts are not being published elsewhere, The Journal’s journals make every effort to identify, detect and prevent concurrent or duplicate submission. If such practices are detected, The Journal apply strict actions and sanctions against these authors i.e papers are withdrawn from the website 3.5. Sanctions: If any violations of the publication ethics or professional codes are detected, then strict action is taken, according to the journal's procedure for dealing with unethical behavior as follows: A warning letter to the author covering the misconduct. Immediate rejection of the submitted manuscript.The probation period is applied to all responsible authors regarding any further submission to the journal. The probation period is applied to all responsible authors regarding serving as referees/reviewers for the journal. Publication of a formal notice detailing the misconduct.A professional letter to the chairman of the authors or reviewers department or funding agency.Formal retraction or withdrawal of a publication from the journal.Reporting the case and outcome to a professional organization or higher authority for further investigation and action.Further sanctions may be imposed, if violations of the above policies are found to be serious.3.6. Editors and Board Members as Authors: The journal adopts well-defined procedures and police to exclude editors from publication decisions when they are authors.3.7. Conflicts of Interest: To ensure objectivity in the review procedure, editors and peer reviewers are requested to disclose that there is no any conflict of interest.3.8. Libel and Defamation: The Journal’s editors make every effort to identify, detect and prevent any certain language or expression either in the manuscripts or peer reviewer reports that would lead to legal action for defamation and negligent misstatement. 3.9. Editorial Independence and Commercial Issues: To ensure a formal relationship between the editors and the publisher (TheJournals ), Each TheJournal’s adopted polices and established mechanisms to avoid biased decisions that are financially influenced by authors. 3.10. Academic Debate: Comments or constructive criticism of any published work are allowed by all journals. If such practice occurs, authors are informed to respond before the comments are published.
3.11. Appeals: To appeal against editorial decisions, authors refer to the international mechanism that is adopted by the journals. 3.12. Corrections: The Journal welcomes authors or readers to notify the journal editorial office if any errors are discovered in the published work. If such occurred, editors and authors are notified to correct theses errors, then an erratum will be published in an issue in the same journal.
4.1. Human Rights, Privacy, and Confidentiality: Outcomes of clinical trial studies must be officially registered with the public health authority in the country. Otherwise, authors are requested to a letter of explanation.4.2. Cultures and Heritage: TheJournal’s editors make every effort to identify, detect, and prevent publishing any images or texts related to religious or historical events that could be offensive to some social groups. 4.3. Reporting Guidelines: The Journal’s editors and peer reviewers make every effort to ensure that the necessary information is available in the submitted manuscripts for the purpose of evaluation by readers.
Author Guidelines
The new submission should be done through this new web TheJournals https://aaj.journals.ekb.eg/
The journal is dedicated to rapid publication of the highest quality short papers, regular papers, and expository papers. Papers which exceed the above page limit will be accepted subject to the approval of the Editorial Board. Manuscripts in all areas of the journals will be considered for publication.
Submission of Manuscripts:
Correspondence by e-mail is requested for convenience and speed. Authors may submit manuscripts in English to the Editorial Board. A Postscript or PDF file with a cover letter must be sent to the corresponding editor by e-mail. The cover letter should give the author's preferred address, e-mail address, phone number and fax number, and should indicate the intended publication format (Short paper, Regular paper or Expository paper). Each submission should include an informative abstract of no more than 250 words.
Guidelines for Manuscript Preparation
Manuscript Style, Illustrations and Photos
Accepted manuscripts must be written in LaTeX format, not exceeding 25 pages. Authors are responsible for converting their manuscripts to LaTeX format, if not initially in LaTeX format. All figures should be numbered with Arabic numerals (1,2,3,….). Every figure should have a caption. All photographs, schemas, graphs, and diagrams are to be referred to as figures. Line drawings should be good-quality scans or true electronic output. Low-quality scans are not acceptable. Figures must be embedded into the text and supplied separately. In MS Word input the figures must be properly coded. Lettering and symbols should be clearly defined either in the caption or in a legend provided as part of the figure. Figures should be placed at the top or bottom of a page wherever possible, as close as possible to the first reference to them in the paper. The figure number and caption should be typed below the illustration in 10 pt. and centered justified; the Artwork has no text along the side of it in the main body of the text. However, if two images fit next to each other, these may be placed next to each other to save space.
Copyright Notice
The journal publishes original papers, which should comprise previously unpublished data, interpretation or syntheses concerning all aspects of Art and technology. The editors will not consider manuscripts, which are under consideration by other publishers. It is assumed that once you have submitted an article to this journal, it will not be sent to other publishers until a decision about inclusion has been made. By submitting your article to IJMSACH, you agree that any articles published by IJMSACH will be Open Access articles distributed.