Authorship
The following factors should be used to determine authorship credit:
- Making a significant contribution to the paper’s idea or design, data collecting, or data analysis and interpretation;
- Composing the article, or evaluating and making significant changes to it;
- Final approval of the version to be published.
These requirements should be met by all those who are recognized as authors or co-authors. All people who have made important scientific contributions to the study described, and so share responsibility for its content and findings, should be named as co-authors of a publication. The efforts of technical workers and data specialists should also be acknowledged adequately by authors. All contributors who do not match the authorship standards (for example, financial support) should be acknowledged in the “Acknowledgements” section (financial disclosure).
Authors should also be aware that ghostwriting and guest writing authorship are also types of scientific misconduct that must be avoided.
The sequence in which co-authors’ names are listed should be decided by a group of co-authors. The submitting author must include contact information for every co-authors (complete name, email address, institutional affiliation, and postal address) throughout the article submission process. When an author submits a manuscript for publication, he or she assumes responsibility for alerting all co-authors of the work. If there are two or more writers, the corresponding author must fill out and sign the Statement of Originality, which should be submitted with the article.
All examples of scientific misconduct that are discovered will be documented, and the proper institutions will be notified.
Ideas and Data Sources
Authors must accurately credit and identify other people’s contributions to their reported work, as well as explicitly disclose data and idea sources. Authors should cite all research papers that were influential in the development of the submitted study and that will direct the reader to earlier researchers who are critical to understanding the current analysis.
Authors must make reasonable and thorough attempts to locate original sources and publications, and then correctly reference them. Authors should only submit personally verified or peer-reviewed scientific facts and literature as reputable sources.
Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are not permitted. Plagiarism is defined as the literal or relatively close copying, or paraphrase without due alteration, of text, data, or other material including the results of another person’s labour, without the source of such information being explicitly identified. Self-plagiarism, on the other hand, is the copying of the author’s own previously published work or results without acknowledging the source. The editors of Streamline Publishers (SLP) are dedicated to publishing only original research and may employ sophisticated software to scan submitted articles for resemblance to previously published material in order to prevent plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Manuscripts may be reviewed throughout the editing process, from submission to final publication in either online or print format.
Identical Publications
Unless a resubmission of a manuscript rejected for or withdrawn from publication, it is illegal for an author to submit papers presenting basically the same study to more than one journal of primary publication. An author must structure his or her work in such a way that it gives a comprehensive summary of the topic under consideration. Splitting of research papers wastes a lot of journal space and complicates literature research, thus writers should avoid it as much as possible.
Conflict of interest
Conflict of interest is a circumstance in which the research and publication process is tainted or the results are skewed due to the participants’ other interests. It might be one or more of the researchers, reviewers, or editors involved in the study and publication process. Financial (e.g., employment opportunities, fees or other compensation arrangements, beneficial ownership of stock) or other reasons (e.g., personal relationships, pursuit of academic career, intellectual passion, political involvement, etc.) can sensibly be believed to impact motivations or outcomes of actions of respondents in the publishing process.
Conflicts of interest pose a significant threat to the objectivity and integrity of scientific research and publication. As a result, if feasible, writers, reviewers, and editors should avoid conflicts of interest situations.
All contributors in the publishing who have a conflict of interest must declare this information. The title and number of the grant(s) as well as the name of the institution(s) that provided the grants or financial support to conduct, analyses, or write-up the study must be specified in the manuscript if the original research study reported in the manuscript or the preparation of the manuscript was supported by one or more grants.
Editors of Streamline publications may base editorial decisions on information revealed in conflict-of-interest and financial-support disclosures. The corresponding author must either advise the editor at the time of submission that there are no conflicts of interest to disclose, or convey all conflicts of interest to the editor in a fair and effective manner, which will be recognized in the publication.
Editing and Revision
All of the Streamline Publishers journals are peer-reviewed. Independent referees or Editorial Board members with expertise in the article field evaluate submitted papers and short communications. Our Reviewers assess the scientific value and novelty of submitted material, determine if it fits the overall journal profile, and examine the content for conformity with the journal’s publishing ethics. The manuscript may be rejected, returned to the author for modifications, or approved for publication when the refereeing process is completed.
The content of the article or brief communication is the responsibility of the writers. Editors may ask an author to comment on the paper’s substance or technical aspects if they believe it is essential. Scientific editing may adjust the format and revise the content to comply with the editorial policies of the journal.
Images and graphs are particularly sensitive to editorial scrutiny, since their number should be kept to a minimum and used only when they are absolutely important in the content of publications. The authorship and integrity of pictures, graphs, and textual information are all subject to ethical norms. Whenever images are used in accounts of the research process or results, or in data collections, the author must provide a detailed description of how the images were created.
Policy on Open Access
On the concept that making research freely available to the public promotes a broader global flow of information, SLP publications allow instant open access to their material. The authors retain copyright for works published in SLP journals, with the journal receiving first publication rights. The work’s further usage is not the responsibility of SLP. If the author desires, he or she is responsible for bringing an infringement case.
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Permission to use the content
For scholarly material it publishes, Streamline Publishers uses the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Others can remix, edit, and build upon your work for non-commercial purposes under this license, and while their new works must recognize you and be non-commercial, they are not required to license their derivative works under the same conditions.