Ethics Statements

Basrah Arts Journal follows the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors. You can read more information about the code in the following link:

http://publicationethics.org/files/u2/New_Code.pdf

http://publicationethics.org 

 

Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Basrah Arts Journal (BAJ) is committing to ensuring that editorial decisions on manuscript submissions are final.
  2. (BAJ) is promising to ensure that the decision on manuscript submissions is only made based on professional judgment and will not be affected by any commercial interests.
  3. (BAJ) is committing to maintaining the integrity of academic and research records.
  4. (BAJ) monitors the ethics of the Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Board Members, Reviewers, Authors, and Readers.
  5. (BAJ) is always checking the plagiarism and fraudulent data issues involved in the submitted manuscript.
  6. (BAJ) is always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, and retractions involving its publications as and when needed.

 

Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

  1. The Editors of the journal should have the full authority to reject/accept a manuscript.
  2. The Editors of the journal should maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts under review or until they are published.
  3. The Editor-in-Chief should decide on submitted manuscripts, whether published or not, with other editors and reviewers.
  4. The Editors of the journal should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
  5. The Editors of the journal should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.
  6. The Editors of the journal should maintain academic integrity and strive to meet the needs of readers and authors.
  7. The journal editors should be willing to investigate plagiarism and fraudulent data issues and be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
  8. The Editors of the journal should limit themselves only to the intellectual content.
  9. The journal editors must not disclose any information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
  10. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper will not be used by the editor or the editorial board members for their own research purposes without the author's explicit written consent.

 

Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers

  1. The Reviewers of the journal should assist the Editors in deciding to publish the submitted manuscripts.
  2. The Reviewers should maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts, which they are invited to review.
  3. The Reviewers should provide comments in time that will help editors to make a decision on whether the submitted manuscript is to be published or not.
  4. The Reviewers are bound to treat the manuscript received for peer reviewing as confidential and must not use the information obtained through peer review for personal advantage. 
  5. The Reviewers' comments against each invited manuscript should be technical, professional, and objective.
  6. The Reviewers should not review the manuscripts in which they have found conflicts of interest with any authors, companies, or institutions.
  7. The Reviewers should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.

 

Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

  1. Manuscripts must be submitted only in English or Arabic and should be written according to sound grammar and proper terminology.
  2. Manuscripts must be submitted to understand that they have not been published elsewhere and are not currently under consideration by another journal published by or any other publisher.
  3. The submitting corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all the other coauthors have approved the manuscript article's publication.
  4. To sustain the peer review system, authors have an obligation to participate in the peer-review process to evaluate manuscripts from others. 
  5. It is also the author's responsibility to ensure that the manuscripts emanating from a particular institution are submitted with the approval of the necessary institution.
  6. It is a condition for submitting a manuscript that the authors permit editing of the paper for readability.
  7. Authors are requested to clearly identify who provided financial support for the conduct of research and/or preparation of the manuscript and briefly describe the role of the founder/ sponsor in any part of the work.
  8. All authors have agreed to allow the corresponding author to correspond with the editorial office to review the edited manuscript and proof.
  9. When the author(s) discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher to retract or correct the manuscript. 
  10. All authors must know that the submitted manuscripts under review or published with Basrah Arts Journal are subject to screening using Plagiarism Prevention Software. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics. 
  11. All authors must ensure that all authors have read the submission final checklist before being submitted to the (BAJ).