Publication Ethics

 

  • This journal is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws.

 

Publication and authorship
  • References should be complied alphabetically according to the order of citation in the text in the APA style. 
  • A statement should be included in the title page indicating any financial support the authors had received.
  • The authors are not allowed to utilize verbatim text of previously published papers or manuscripts submitted elsewhere.
  • Authors should sign an Assignment Form stating that the article is an original work, has not been published before and is not being considered for publication elsewhere in its final form either in printed or electronic form. The same research must not be published in more than one journal.
  • Plagiarism: Use of verbatim texts from other sources without acknowledgement is prohibited. The content of all articles must be the original work of authors and must not be plagiarized from other articles.
  • Journal of Iranian Public Administration Studies uses Hamyab Plagiarism Detection Tool to electronically verify the originality of written works.

Author's responsibilities
  • Authors should actively participate in the peer review process and provide suitable responses to the comments raised by peer reviewers on time.
  • All authors must have significantly contributed to the research and fullfil the authorship criteria.
  • Authors must state that all data in the article are real and authentic.
  • All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
  • Copyright: If a manuscript contains any previous published image or text, it is the responsibility of the author to obtain authorization from copyright holders. The author is required to obtain and submit the written original permission letters for all copyrighted material used in his/her manuscripts.

  • Authors sign an exclusive license agreement, where authors have copyright but license exclusive rights in their article to the Iranian Public Administration Association and Journal of Iranian Public Administration Studies (JIPAS). In this case authors have the right to:

    • Share their article in the same ways permitted to third parties under the relevant user license.
    • Retain patent, trademark and other intellectual property rights (including research data).
    • Proper attribution and credit for the published work.

Peer review/responsibility for the reviewers

  • Judgments should be objective.
  • Reviewers should have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the research funders.
  • Reviewers should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited.
  • Reviewed articles should be treated confidentially.
  • Reviewers should advise editors, but the final decision on an article is made by the Editors-in-Chief.
  • Reviewers should provide constructive comments to improve the quality of the article.