Articles submitted to Alexandria Journal of Science and Technology (AJST) must adhere with the ethical guidelines provided by the COPE (Committee of Publications Ethics (http://publicationethics.org/)).
Roles of Editors: The fairness and independence of editors.
The evaluation of submitted manuscripts by the editors is based only on their relevance to the Alexandria Journal of Science and Technology scope and academic importance, originality, clarity and validity of the study, regardless of the authors’ race, religious belief, nationality, gender, cultural, political viewpoint or institutional affiliation. Editing and publishing decisions are determined only by the editor-in-chief, who has the full authority over the entire editorial content and publishing time.
Confidentiality
Any information about a submitted manuscript is confidential. The editorial board will reveal information only to corresponding authors, reviewers or potential reviewers and the publisher.
Harmful substances and human or animal subjects
Experimental work with humans, animals or harmful substances described in articles must have evidence of the approval of the relevant Ethical Committee and/or Independent Review Board (IRB) of the Faculty/Institution in which the work was done and that the subjects gave informed consent to the work. The use of experimental animals must be performed in accordance with the relevant local or national animal welfare guidelines. The Editors reserve the right to refuse publications where the required ethical approval/patient consent is lacking.
Authors commitments
The author should be aware of the major ethical issues before submitting and publishing the research articles such as duplicate publication, fabricated data, plagiarism (and self-plagiarism), disputes with authorship; breach of copyright and undisclosed conflict of interest.
Articles submitted must not include published contents (except in the form of an abstract or as part of the lecture or thesis) or be currently under consideration for publication in another journal at the time of submission.
Authors must be sure that all data in the submitted article is clear and accurate. The editors of AJST may contact the authors to provide supporting raw data. In case of the explanation is not satisfactory enough, the submission will be immediately rejected, and necessary actions will be taken.
Plagiarism in any form is not accepted and if found, all stakeholders will be notified. During the peer-review process, the editors will check the similarities to other published articles by crosschecking against a giant database of published articles. Corrected articles will be verified once again to ensure that they do not have plagiarism issues. The reuse of your own work (data, words or theories) without proper citation is considered self-plagiarism.
The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the article's publication in the journal has been approved by all the other co-authors. All authors listed in a submitted article should have been involved in the conception of the research idea or methodology design or acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data to the work reported. An Author contribution paragraph, outlining their individual contributions to the paper, should be included in the manuscript before the acknowledgment section. Any change to the authors list after submissions, such as a change in the order of the authors or the deletion or addition of authors needs the approval of all authors. An acknowledgment from the editorial office officially confirms the date of receipt and the date of acceptance. Further correspondence and proofs will be sent to the corresponding author(s) until publication.
The content of the manuscript must be the authors' own, and it has not been copyrighted from other previously published works. Permission should be provided during submission to reuse any figures, tables, and data sets from previously published content.
All authors in submitted manuscripts must be honest about any conflicts of interest which may exist when the interpretation of the results are influenced by whether sources of research funding, or any form of financial support directly or indirectly by means of supplying equipment or materials from other people or organizations. The statement must declare any potential conflicts of interest in the manuscript, if no conflict exists authors should declare that there is no conflict of interest. The articles may be rejected or retracted if potential conflict of interest is detected and not declared to the journal during submission.
The Faculty of Science, Alexandria University is committed to ensure robust peer review and ethical standards in publication and quality of articles. It will promote strict adherence to standards of ethical practices as defined by the Code of Conduct of COPE which is expected from all the parties involved: Editors, Authors, Experts, Reviewers and the Publisher. The Faculty of Science, Alexandria University is committed to supporting stringent peer review process, and scientific, ethical and quality standards in publishing.