Ethics
Science Essence Journal is committed to keep the highest possible ethical standards of publication practice as following:
Authors' Responsibilities
- Authors must ensure that they have provided entirely original works in their submitted manuscript with objective discussion of its significance.
- Authors should not submit same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently, and the submitted work must have not been previously published elsewhere.
- Authors should follow publication requirements of the journal.
- Authors should ensure that their manuscript is written in clear and concise language, adhering to the journal's formatting and style guidelines.
- Authors must present accurate information of their research findings, and must ensure that the work contains sufficient detail to permit others to replicate.
- Authors should provide proper attribution for all sources, including data, figures, and ideas that have been taken from other works.
- Authors should disclose any conflicts of interest that may influence their work.
- Authors should acknowledge their funding sources.
Reviewers' Responsibilities
- Reviewers should keep all information of the reviewed manuscripts confidentially.
- Reviewers should declare any conflicts of interest that may affect their ability to review a manuscript.
- Reviewers should provide possible plagiarism of the reviewed manuscript with supporting information.
- Reviewers should suggest relevant previously published work that has not been cited in the reviewed manuscript.
- Reviewers should identify any similarity or overlap between the work under being revision and other relevant published works.
- Reviewers should provide review comments with clear decisions to the editor.
- Reviewers should provide constructive and helpful feedback to authors, focusing on both strengths and areas for improvement in the manuscript.
Editors' Responsibilities
- Editors should ensure that submitted manuscripts meet the journal requirement and the topics are in the scope of the journal.
- Editors should make unbiased decisions.
- Editors should appropriately handle potential conflicts of interest and ethical issues throughout the review and publication processes.
- Editors should clearly communicate with authors and reviewers, providing clear instructions and guidance.
- Editors should keep all information of the reviewed manuscripts confidentially, and disclose information only to the assigned reviewers.
- Editors should ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process.