Why Choose Koozakar for Koozakar's Journal Program?
- Editorial Policies:Koozakar's editorial policies for its publishing program emphasize transparency, integrity, and ethical conduct in all aspects of the peer review and manuscript handling process. The editor of a journal is pivotal in advancing knowledge and maintaining the quality and integrity of the peer review process. Here are the key points outlining our editorial policies:
- Adherence to COPE Guidelines: Editors follow the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) core practices and guidelines to ensure ethical publishing standards.
- Reputation and Fair Processes: Editors ensure that the journal maintains a reputation for ethical standards and fair processes throughout the editorial workflow.
- Intellectual Property and Research Integrity: Editors uphold the respect for intellectual property, ensuring research integrity and avoiding bias in editorial decision-making.
- Ethical Standards for Papers: Editors enforce ethical standards on authorship, originality, duplicate or redundant publication, fabrication/falsification, and correct referencing.
- Avoidance of Citation Manipulation: Editors remain vigilant to potential citation manipulation and promptly report concerns to Koozakar's publishing program.
- Disclosure of Funding and Resources: Editors ensure that authors disclose sources of funding and any other resources used in their research.
- Confidentiality: Editors maintain the confidentiality of Koozakar's staff, authors, reviewers, and any other individuals involved in the investigation of an ethical query.
- Constructive Criticism: Editors avoid unconstructive criticism in reviews and promote a culture where editorial board members and reviewers provide constructive feedback.
- Addressing Concerns: Editors establish a route for all editorial board members, reviewers, and interested parties to raise concerns about an article or the peer review process.
- Fair and Unbiased Consideration: Editors give unbiased consideration to each manuscript, irrespective of author characteristics, and judge each on its merits.
- Mentoring and Support: Editors mentor and support other editors and editorial board members, providing oversight for guest editors.
- Engagement and Advocacy: Editors engage with editorial board members, ensuring confidence in advocating for the journal's aims and scope.
- Declaration of Interests: Editors ensure that all necessary declarations of interest are made by authors, reviewers, and decision-making editors.
- Partnership with Koozakar: Editors work in partnership with Koozakar and supplier partners to create a professional, positive, inclusive, and safe publishing environment.
