Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics

Ethical Standards for Authors of Submitted Articles

          1) Authors of the article have to be responsible and be sure that articles which have been submitting for publication in the Journal of Academic Humanities have not previously been published or have not been considering by experts for publication in other journals.

          2) Authors have to comply with the article criteria for publication in the Journal of Academic Humanities" strictly, including the citation style of the journal.

          3) Authors have to revise the article according to the format of the journal under the topic ‘Advice for the Author’ so that the articles are published in the same standard.

          4) Authors have to take into account the ethics of research by avoiding plagiarism of other people’s works.

          5) Authors whose name appears in the article have to be a participant in the preparation, writing process or taking part in the proceedings of the research. People who are not involved as participant in the article will not be allowed to include their names in the article. After checking, if there is found these people without participation in the article, the editorial team will withdraw the article immediately.

          6) Authors are responsible for all referencing, whether content, images or tables, if used in their articles. They have to specify the ‘citation’ to prevent copyright infringement. If there is a lawsuit, it will be the sole responsibility of the authors. The journal will not take any responsibility and will proceed to withdraw the article immediately.

          7) Authors have to verify the accuracy of the list of references/citations, both in format and content. It should not list any other documents which have not been cited in the content as references. The documents should be referenced as necessary and appropriate, including referring to the citation format of the journal.

          8) Authors have to revise the article according to the evaluation results from the article reviewers and the editorial team within the due date. If it is overdue date, the articles will be postponed or may be withdrawn from the journal.

          9) Authors should name the source of funding for the research (if any). In addition, any conflict of interest should be identified.

          10) Authors have not to report information which is inaccurate, whether to create false or forged misrepresentation, including embellishment or selective representation of information consistent with conclusions.

          11) Authors should not refer documents which have been withdrawn and never published, unless some contents are related to the withdrawal process of that documents. Furthermore, it has to be stated in reference of the article that those documents have been withdrawn.

 

Editor's Ethical Standards

          1) Editors have to supervise and follow up the journal's operations, in accordance with the policy and objectives are correct and acceptable following stated ethics, according to the announcement of the Thai-Journal Citation Index Center (TCI) on Assessment of ethics of Thai academic journals in the TCI database, on 24 June 2019.

          2) Editors have to supervise, follow up, and take appropriate action on the author(s) of reviewed articles, especially if there are violations of ethics such as violating or plagiarizing other people's works as their own.

          3) Editors have to supervise and monitor the publication of articles that contain conflicts of interest such as publication of own articles (executive editor or editor-in-chief) or the article checked by interested peer reviewers, etc.

          4) Editors are in charge and should take care and consideration of the quality of the articles to be published in the journal. All articles have to be selected for publication after the article evaluation process based on clarity and the consistency of the content with the journal's policy. It has to be knowledge statements that reflect perspectives, ideas of theory gained from the experience, synthesis of documents or research works that focus on new theory, including conceptual model that helps to enhance understanding and lead to research on the important topic.

          5) Editors have not to disclose authors’ and peer reviewers’ information to other unrelated parties at the time of evaluating the article. The name lists of authors and peer reviewers in the journal are concealed as double-blind peer review.

          6) Editors have not to publish articles that have been published elsewhere. The articles are required to be checking plagiarism through the CopyCatch program on the ThaiJO website, not exceeding 20% in order to ensure that articles do not plagiarize other people's work. If plagiarism is detected, the article evaluation process has to be stopped. The journal editor will immediately contact the first/corresponding author for clarifying the acceptance or decline of article publication.

          7) Editors have not to have conflicts of interest with authors and peer reviewers. They have to maintain principles of good governance in operations.

          8) Editors have not to take part of information of authors’ article to their own work.

          9) Editors are responsible for publishing research works that have correct research methods and credible results. Credibility of research results will be an indication of whether it should be published or not.

          10) If editors find out that the author plagiarizes or fakes data, and deserves to be withdrawn article, but the author refuses to withdraw, the editors can withdraw articles without the consent of the authors which is regarded as the right and responsibility of the editor.

          11) Editor-in-chief is responsible for considering the ability to assign work to match the ability of each editor.

          12) Editors have to supervise and monitor in the quantity and quality of journal citations in fact. They have to avoid forcemeat of author to cite their own journal or unrelated information.  

          13) Editors have to supervise, follow up, and take charge of publication fee in fairness. For example, there are required to be clear in process charge, amount of publication fees or condition of charge.

 

Ethical Standards of Article Reviewers

          1) Peer reviewers should have a code of conduct for reviewing articles. There are required to their expertise, qualification or specification of the field studies which are related to the article, quality of analysis, and concentration of work. In addition, they should specify research findings which are consistent with the article and express their opinions which are supported the information of article.

          2) Peer reviewers should have a code of conduct in recommending and putting their own academic opinions into assessment form with fairness, unbiased opinions, and on time as specified by the journal.

          3) Peer reviewers should have a code of conduct for confidentiality and non-disclosure of submitted articles for an unrelated person during the reviewed process and after finished article.

          4) If after receiving the article from the editors, the peer reviewers consider that they might have conflicts of interest with authors and are unable to express opinions and suggestions independently, the peer reviewers should notify the editors and refuse to rate the article.

          5) Peer reviewers should take into consideration of article title. If it is an academic article, it is able to edit the title. If it is a research article, spelled mistakes should be considered and should not change the title of research article.

          6) Peer reviewers have not to take part of article information to their own work.

          7) When peer reviewers found that there is any part of the article which is identical or duplicated with other works, it has to be notified to editors with any empirical evidence.