Publication Ethics

PUBLICATION ETHICS AND PUBLICATION MALPRACTICE STATEMENT

The ethical policy of TANRA is based on the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Publishers, editors, reviewers, and authors should follow this ethical policy once working with TANRA. Our commitment aligns with the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to ensure integrity, transparency, and accountability throughout the research and publication process. For information on this matter in publishing and ethical guidelines, please visit https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

The publication ethics and publication malpractice statement page outlines the essential ethical guidelines and responsibilities related to the publication process. It includes the following sections:

Duties and Responsibilities of Publishers, Editors, Reviewers, Authors
Conflict of Interest.
Principles of Transparency.
Violation of Publication Ethics.
Handling Cases of Misconduct.

Duties and Responsibilities of Publishers

TANRA is committing to ensure that editorial decisions on manuscript submissions are final.
TANRA 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.
TANRA is committing to maintaining the integrity of academic and research records.
TANRA monitors the ethics of Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Editorial Board Members, Reviewers, Authors, and Readers.
TANRA is always checking the plagiarism and fraudulent data issues involving in the submitted manuscript.
TANRA is always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, and retractions involving its publications as and when needed.

Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

The Editors of the journal should have the full authority to reject/accept a manuscript.
The Editors of the journal should maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts under review or until they are published.
The Editor-in-Chief should decide on submitted manuscripts, whether published or not, with other editors and reviewers.
The Editors of the journal should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
The Editors of the journal should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.
The Editors of the journal should maintain academic integrity and strive to meet the needs of readers and authors.
The journal editors should be willing to investigate plagiarism and fraudulent data issues and willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
The Editors of the journal should have the limit themselves only to the intellectual content.
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.
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

The Reviewers of the journal should assist the Editors in deciding to publish the submitted manuscripts.
The Reviewers should maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts, which they are invited to review.
The Reviewers should provide comments in time that will help editors to make a decision on the submitted manuscript to be published or not.
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.
The Reviewers comments against each invited manuscript should be technical, professional, and objective.
The Reviewers should not review the manuscripts in which they have found conflicts of interest with any authors, companies, or institutions.
The Reviewers should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.

Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

Manuscripts can be submitted in English or Arabic and should be written according to sound grammar and proper terminology.
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.
The submitting corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all the other coauthors have approved the manuscript article's publication.
To sustain the peer review system, authors have an obligation to participate in the peer-review process to evaluate manuscripts from others.
It is also the authors' responsibility to ensure that the manuscripts emanating from a particular institution are submitted with the approval of the necessary institution.
It is a condition for submitting a manuscript that the authors permit editing of the paper for readability.
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.
All authors have agreed to allow the corresponding author to correspond with the editorial office to review the edited manuscript and proof.
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.
All authors must know that the submitted manuscripts under review or published with TANRA are subject to screening using Plagiarism Prevention Software. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics.
All authors must ensure that all authors have read the submission final checklist before being submitted to the TANRA.

Conflicts of interest

Conflict of interest exists when an author (or the author’s institution), reviewer, or editor has financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence (bias) his or her actions (such relationships are also known as “dual commitments”, “competing interests," or “competing loyalties”).

Editor

Editors and editorial board members will not use unpublished information disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their own research purposes without the authors’ explicit written consent. Privileged information or ideas obtained by editors as a result of handling the manuscript will be kept confidential and not used for their personal advantage. Editors will recuse themselves from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers; instead, they will ask another member of the editorial board to handle the manuscript.

Referees

Any invited referee who has conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the manuscript and the work described therein should immediately notify the editors to declare their conflicts of interest and decline the invitation to review so that alternative reviewers can be contacted.

Unpublished material disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the authors. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for the reviewer’s advantage. This applies also to the invited reviewers who decline the review invitation.

Author

Authors should—at the earliest stage possible (generally by submitting a disclosure form at the time of submission and including a statement in the manuscript)—disclose any conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or their interpretation in the manuscript. Examples of potential conflicts of interest that should be disclosed include financial ones such as honoraria, educational grants or other funding, participation in speakers’ bureaus, membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest, and paid expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements, as well as non-financial ones such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge, or beliefs in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. All sources of financial support for the work should be disclosed (including the grant number or other reference number, if any).

Principles of Transparency

Violation of Publication Ethics

Handling Cases of Misconduct

Once TANRA confirms a violation against TANRA’s publication ethics, TANRA addresses ethical concerns diligently, following an issue-specific standard practice as summarized below.

The first action of the journal Editor is to inform the Editorial Office of TANRA by supplying copies of the relevant material and a draft letter to the corresponding author asking for an explanation in a nonjudgmental manner.
If the author’s explanation is unacceptable and it seems that serious unethical conduct has occurred, the matter is referred to the Publication Committee via Editorial Office. After deliberation, the Committee will decide whether the case is sufficiently serious to warrant a ban on future submissions.
If the infraction is less severe, the Editor, upon the advice of the Publication Committee, sends the author a letter of reprimand and reminds the author of TANRA publication policies; if the manuscript has been published, the Editor may request the author to publish an apology in the journal to correct the record.
Notification will be sent to the corresponding author. Any work by the author responsible for the violation or any work these persons coauthored under review by the TANRA journal will be rejected immediately.
The authors are prohibited from serving on the TANRA editorial board and serving as a reviewer for TANRA Journal. However, TANRA reserves the right to take more action.
In extreme cases, notifications will be sent to the authors' affiliations, and the authors are prohibited from submitting their work to TANRA for 5 years.
In serious fraud cases that result in the retraction of the article, a retraction notice will be published in the journal and linked to the article in the online version. The online version will also be marked “retracted” with the retraction date.

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