Publication Ethics

JUMAD is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices. This statement is based on the guidelines set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Duties of Authors:

  1. Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that their work is entirely original. Any work or words of others must be appropriately cited or quoted. All submitted manuscripts will be checked for plagiarism using Turnitin, with a maximum similarity index of 25%.
  2. Reporting Standards: Authors should present an accurate account of the work performed and an objective discussion of its significance.
  3. Multiple Publications: Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
  4. Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution. The corresponding author ensures that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper.
  5. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors should disclose any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript.

Duties of Reviewers:

  1. Confidentiality: Reviewers must treat manuscripts as confidential documents.
  2. Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate.
  3. Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and may also assist the author in improving the paper.
  4. Promptness: Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse themselves from the review process.

Duties of Editors:

  1. Fair Play: An editor will evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
  2. Confidentiality: The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and the publisher.
  3. Publication Decisions: The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published, guided by the reviews and the journal's policies.