Publication Ethics
Ethical standards for publication mainly aim to ensure high quality scientific publications, public trust in new findings, and hence the public receive credit for their new ideas. KITSPRESS aims to stick to the Best Practice Guidelines framed on Publication Ethics (COPE) and abides by its Code of Conduct.
All submitted articles are peer – reviewed by our experts in the respective field. If the articles are accepted by the editors, then the peer reviewers start reviewing the papers. These Peer reviewers remain unknown to the authors. We may also seek advice and ideas from outside experts of the field to which the journal belongs to.
Plagiarism is a crime.KITSPRESS checks all the submitted manuscripts for plagiarism using Turnitin Plagiarism Checker software. If any of the manuscripts are detected for plagiarism then the respective manuscripts will be rejected. If Plagiarism is found after publication then the associated manuscript will be deleted.
The authors’ submissions are accepted as long as they are completely original, unpublished works that are not already being considered for publication by another magazine.
Depending on the circumstances, some articles can be published in more than one journal (e.g., guidelines, translations). Secondary publications must be approved by the authors and editors of the primary publications to reflect the same data and interpretation. The secondary publication must cite the primary reference.
The unpublished new and original articles from the authors can be submitted in any format with .doc or .docx extension.Only 6 authors are allowed to the maximum.Any details related to the author such as the name or email id cannot be changed later.
Authors are asked to submit the accepted manuscripts in a single column format through the online portal with .doc or .docx extention.The KITSPRESS team will modify the manuscript according to the template.
Any conflicts of interest that could influence the results or interpretation in the manuscript should be disclosed by authors as early as possible (generally by submitting a disclosure form and including a statement in the manuscript). Many potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed, including financial ones, such as honoraria, educational grants or other funding, participation in speakers’ bureaus, membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest, and paid expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements, as well as non-financial ones such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. Please disclose all sources of funding (including grant numbers or other reference numbers, if applicable).
If unsure about the conflicting interests, it can be discussed with the Editorial Board before submission of the article.
Possible conflicting interests include:
As the manuscript must be publicly responsible for its content, only individuals meeting these authorship criteria should be listed as authors: (i) contributed significantly to the study’s conception, design, execution, data acquisition, or analysis and interpretation; (ii) wrote the manuscript or revised it critically for important intellectual content; and (iii) approved the final version of the paper and agreed to its publication. If any individual contributed substantially to the work reported in the manuscript (for example, technical help, writing and editing assistance, general assistance), he or she should not be listed as an author but should be mentioned in the “Acknowledgements” section after they have been granted written permission to be mentioned. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to ensure all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list. In addition, the author should verify that all co-authors have seen the final draft and approved it for publication, and have agreed to it.
Editors and reviewers should decline to be involved with a submission if they have any of the following:
All the manuscripts will be sent to the subject field experts for review.They will send the review to the editorial team.The decision will be taken by the Editorial team.The decision can be
An author is responsible for notifying the journal’s editors or journal as soon as they discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work and cooperating with them to correct the work or retract it. Journal editors generally expect authors to promptly correct or retract papers that contain significant errors or inaccuracies, or to provide evidence to them that the paper is correct.
As a publication, working closely with its editors, will take appropriate measures if there is alleged or actual scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism in an article. Erratum, clarifications, and, in the most severe cases, retractions are among the remedies available. In addition to taking reasonable steps to identify and prevent papers with research misconduct from being published, the journal should ensure that no such misconduct is encouraged or knowingly permitted to occur.
The journal team will modify the manuscript according to the template.
Editors have the complete responsibility to accept or reject the manuscript depending on the reviews obtained from the reviewers. Every manuscript should be treated as a confidential document by the editor. It is prohibited for editors to use any submitted manuscripts in their own research. Editors should have no conflict of interest on the articles they accept or reject. It is the editor’s responsibility to ensure that the peer-review process is conducted to a high standard. Double blind review process must be ensured by the editors.