Duties of the Publisher

Quality Assurance. The Publisher takes responsibility for maintaining the quality of the journal and its contents. For this aim, the Publisher seeks to concentrate the best human and technical resources available. The Publisher keeps track of the best available standards for research quality and ethics to be applied when maintaining the Journal. The Publisher seeks to increase the visibility of the journal by submitting it for indexing in relevant databases. The Publisher and editors shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. In no case shall a journal or its editors encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place. In the event that a journal’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article in their journal, the publisher or editor shall follow COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.

Editorial Board. The Publisher appoints the Editors-in-Chief and other members of the Editorial Board in order to ensure the scientific quality of the contents published. The Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Board in general are chosen based on the professional qualities. The Publisher respects independence of the Editorial Board with regard to decisions on the scientific content of the journal.

Crossref Integration. The journal takes active participation in Crossref by submitting the metadata. The Crossmark is maintained to keep track of changes in the papers published.

Fair Play. The Publisher seeks to ensure that the Journal policies are publicly available and respected by the scientific community. This is achieved by publishing relevant policies on the journal’s website.