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Scope Editorial Board Instructions to Authors Indexing Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement Subscription | Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement Mathematics
for Applications follows the standards for Ethics and Publication Malpractice
set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and available at https://publicationethics.org.
Any kind of unethical behaviour is not acceptable, plagiarism is not tolerated
in any of its forms. The relevant duties and responsibilities of editors (first
of all the Editor-in-Chief who also represents the publisher of the journal), reviewers,
and authors include: |
Duties of Editors Fairness and independence Editor-in-Chief evaluates, in collaboration with
Editorial board members and with the help of
reviewers, submitted manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their
academic merit (importance, originality, significancy, clarity) and its
relevance to the journal’s scope, without regard to the authors’ race, gender,
sexual orientation, ethnic origin, citizenship, religious belief, political
philosophy or institutional affiliation. Decisions to publish or reject
submissions are not determined by the policies of governments or any other
agencies outside of the journal itself. The Editor-in-Chief has full authority
over the entire editorial content of the journal and the timing of publication
of that content. Confidentiality Editors will not disclose any information about a
submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers,
potential reviewers, and other editorial advisers, as appropriate. 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Editorial board members will not use unpublished information disclosed in a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. Conflicts of interest 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. Decision about publication Editor-in-Chief ensures that all submitted manuscripts
considered for publication undergo peer-review by at least two reviewers who
are experts in the field. Editor-in-Chief is responsible for deciding which
of the manuscripts submitted to the journal will be published, based on the
validation of the work in question, its importance to researchers and readers,
the reviewers’ comments, and such legal requirements as copyright infringement or
plagiarism. Unethical behaviour Editors will take responsive measures when ethical
concerns are raised with regard to a submitted manuscript or published paper.
Every reported act of unethical publishing behaviour will be looked into, even
if it is discovered after publication. Editors will follow the COPE Flowcharts
(see https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts-new/translations)
when dealing with cases of suspected misconduct. Handling of unethical behaviour In cases of proven scientific misconduct, fraudulence
or plagiarism, Editor-in-Chief is responsible for taking all appropriate
measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This
includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification or, in the most
severe case, the retraction of the affected work. Editor-in-Chief is also
responsible for taking steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers
where research misconduct has occurred, and under no circumstances encourages
such misconduct or knowingly allows such misconduct to take place. Access to journal content and archiving Editor-in-Chief is committed to the permanent
availability and preservation of scholarly research and ensures accessibility of
the journal content in the digital form. If it is decided that the journal will
no longer be published, then Editor-in-Chief will immediately ensure
maintaining the digital archive in order that the accessibility to the journal
content be continued. Duties of Reviewers Qualified and prompt publication recommendation Reviewers help editors to make publicaton decisions by
recommending acceptance or rejection of submitted papers. Through editorial
communications with authors, they may stimulate authors to improve their
manuscripts. Any invited referee who feels unqualified to review the research
reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible
should immediately notify the editors and decline the invitation to review so
that alternative reviewers can be contacted. Confidentiality and objectivity All manuscripts received for review are confidential
documents and must be treated as such; they must not be shown to or discussed
with others except if authorized by the Editor-in-Chief (who would only do so
under exceptional and specific circumstances). This applies also to invited
reviewers who decline the review invitation. Reviews should be conducted
objectively and observations formulated clearly with supporting arguments so
that authors can use them for improving the manuscript. Personal criticism of
the authors is inappropriate. Acknowledgement of sources Reviewers should identify relevant published work that
has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that is an observation,
derivation or argument that has been reported in previous publications should
be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also notify the
editors of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under
consideration and any other manuscript (published or unpublished) of which they
have personal knowledge. Conflicts of interest 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 disclosure 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
personal advantage. This applies also to invited reviewers who decline the
review invitation. Duties of Authors Reporting standards Authors should submit original work with an objective
discussion of significance of the results. Underlying data should be
represented accuraetely in the manuscript. The paper should contain sufficient
detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Review articles
should be accurate, objective and comprehensive, while editorial opinion or
perspective pieces should be clearly identified as such. Fraudulent or
knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are
unacceptable. Data accessibility Authors may be asked to provide the raw data of their
study together with the manuscript for editorial review and should be prepared
to make the data publicly available if practicable. In any event, authors
should ensure accessibility of such data to other competent professionals for
at least 10 years after publication (preferably via an institutional or
subject-based data repository or other data centre), provided that the
confidentiality of the participants can be protected and legal rights
concerning proprietary data do not preclude their release. Plagiarism and other unethical publishing behaviour Authors should ensure that they have written and
submited only entirely original works and, if they have used the work or
phrases of others, that this has been appropriately cited. Publications that
have been influential in determining the nature of the work reported in the manuscript
should also be cited. Plagiarism takes many forms, from pronouncing another's paper as the author's own, to
copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another's paper (without citation),
to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its
forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. Papers
describing essentially the same research should not be published in more than
one journal or primary publication. Hence, authors should not submit for consideration
a manuscript that has already been published in another journal. Submission of
a manuscript concurrently to more than one journal is unethical publishing
behaviour and unacceptable. Authorship of the manuscript Only persons who meet the following authorship criteria should be listed as
authors in the manuscript as they must be able to take public responsibility
for the content: (1) made significant contributions to the conception, design,
execution, data acquisition, or analysis/interpretation of the study; (2)
drafted the manuscript or revised it critically for important intellectual
content; and (3) have seen and approved the final version of the paper and
agreed to its submission for publication. All persons who made substantial
contributions to the work reported in the manuscript but who do not meet the
criteria for authorship must not be listed as an author, but should be
acknowledged in the Acknowledgements subject their written permission to be
named. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate coauthors
and no inappropriate ones are included in the author list and verify that all
coauthors have approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to its
submission for publication. Conflicts of interest Authors should, at the earliest stage possible, disclose
any conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or
their interpretation in the manuscript. The potential conflicts of interest
that should be disclosed include financial ones (honoraria, educational grants
or other funding, membership,
employment, consultancies or patent-licensing arrangements) as well as
non-financial ones (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. Acknowledgement of sources Authors should ensure that they have properly
acknowledged the work of others, and should also cite publications that have
been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Information
obtained privately (from conversation, correspondence or discussion with third
parties) must not be used or reported without explicit written permission from
the source. Authors should not use information obtained in the course of
providing confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant
applications, unless they have obtained the explicit written permission of the
author(s) of the work involved in these services. Peer review Authors are obliged to participate in the peer review
process and cooperate fully by responding promptly to editors’ requests for raw
data, clarifications, proof of ethics approval, and copyright permissions. In
the case that the first decision requires necessary revisions, authors should
respond to the reviewers’ comments systematically, point by point, and in a
timely manner, revising and re-submitting their manuscript to the journal by
the deadline given. Discovering errors in published papers When authors discover significant errors or
inaccuracies in their own published work, it is their obligation to promptly
notify the journal’s editors or publisher and cooperate with them to either
correct the paper in the form of an erratum or to retract the paper. If the
editors or publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a
significant error or inaccuracy, then it is the authors’ obligation to promptly
correct or retract the paper or provide evidence to the journal editors of the
correctness of the paper. | |
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