Journal of Isotopes follows the
recognized publication ethics.According to the relevant guidelines published by
the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) and combined with the actual
situation of the journal, we have formulated the ethical standards for the
publication of Journal of Isotopes.
Duties of Authors
1. Manuscripts should meet the
requirements indicated on the page of “Submission Guideline”
Authors should confirm the sources of all
data they used, and the findings and results from other
researchers mentioned in the manuscript should be properly cited and marked.
Authors should ensure that the manuscript is an original work, free from
academic misconduct (e.g., plagiarism, data forgery), contains no
confidential information, and does not involve multiple submissions, redundant
publication and other relevant issues.
2. Authorship
Criteria
All signed authors must meet the journal's authorship
criteria, that is, all authors must have materially participated in the
research and/or article preparation. They should have made substantial
contributions to the following: conception and design of the study, acquisition
of data, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the article or revising
it critically for important intellectual content, or final approval of the
version to be submitted, etc.
3. Author
Contribution Statement
In
order to prevent academic misconduct like nominal authors, all authors need to
fill in and upload the "Author Contribution Statement Form" provided
by the journal during submission to declare their individual contributions to
the article.
4. The author list
shall not be modified at will.
Any addition,
deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be
made before the manuscript has been accepted. To request such a change, the
corresponding author should explain the reason for the change,
and send the confirmation letter that all authors agree to modify the
author list to the Editorial Office. When adding or removing authors, the
confirmation letter should also include the acknowledgments of the added or
removed authors.
5. Conflict of
Interest Statement
A
conflict of interest may exist when an author (or the author’s institution or
employer) has financial or personal relationships or affiliations that could
influence (or bias) the author’s decisions, work, or manuscript. Authors should
also disclose conflicts of interest with products that compete with those
mentioned in their manuscript. Complete and upload a "Conflict of Interest
Statement" at the time of submission to disclose all potential conflicts
of interest involved in the study.
6. Authors should
state the funding information related to the research in the manuscript, but
not other funding information unrelated to the research.
Duties of Editors
1. Editors should
deal with each manuscript fairly and impartially, and accept or reject a
manuscript according to the journal's scope, the novelty and academic quality
of the manuscript. For manuscripts that pass the preliminary review, editors
should register and submit them for the following review processes; and for the
manuscripts that pass the final review, editors should edit and publish them in
a timely manner.
2. Editors should follow
double-blind review process and keep the true review records. They have the
duty to keep confidential the information of authors and reviewers, the
authors' research results, and the intermediate materials in manuscript
processing.
3. Editors have the
responsibility to avoid academic misconduct such as multiple submissions and
redundant publication. Editors should review a manuscript twice after
submission and before publication.
4. Editors should
provide authors with detailed revision opinions or reasons for rejection as
much as possible, objectively state the review status of manuscripts, and do
not make personal comments or attacks on review experts and authors.
5. In the process
of editing and publishing, editors should not only pay attention to publishing
norms, but also respect author's point of view and writing style, and should
obtain author's consent for key revisions of a manuscript, such as
revision to academic views, And confirm it in the author proof of the second
proofreading.
Duties of Reviewers
1. Reviewers should
make honest, objective, and fair review based on the principles of maintaining
academic integrity and respecting academic freedom; they shall not prejudice or
discriminate against author's country, institution, race, religion, political
belief, gender, etc., and shall not disclose the research content of
manuscripts that they review.
2. When there are
conflicts of interest between reviewer and author (e.g., kinship,
teacher-student relationship, alumni relationship, colleague relationship,
competition relationship), in order to ensure the fairness of the review, the
reviewer should consult the Editorial Office in time to obtain further
suggestions.
3. When a reviewer
finds the research is similar to his/her own, the review comments must not
contain unsubstantiated or malicious criticism and unfair content. The reviewer
should avoid making unfounded allegations.
4. Reviewers should review manuscripts in
a timely manner as agreed. If reviews cannot be returned on time, the reviewer
should notify the Editorial Office in time and withdraw from reviewing the
manuscript, and can recommend suitable reviewers. Without the permission
of the Editorial Office, reviewers are not allowed to entrust their own
students or colleagues to review the manuscripts on their own behalf.
5. When reviewers
encounter a manuscript they have reviewed, they are obliged to report the
situation to the Editorial Office and complete the review according to the
journal’s standards.
Academic Misconduct
Journal of Isotopes only
accepts original articles that have not been submitted to other journals and
have not been published. Academic misconduct such as plagiarism, data forgery,
multiple submissions, and redundant publication are strictly prohibited!
In order to prevent
academic misconduct, the Editorial Office adopts the AMLC System provided
by China national knowledge infrastructure (CNKI) and the Literature
Similarity Detection System provided by Wanfang Data to check the
manuscripts during the preliminary review stage and before
their publication.
Manuscripts
involving academic misconduct will be rejected by the journal. If a
manuscript is found to involve academic misconduct after publication, the
journal will retract the manuscript, notify the authors’ institutions and other
relevant journals, and hold the authors responsible in accordance with relevant
law and regulations, and the "Copyright Transfer Agreement" signed by
the authors. For manuscripts with severe academic misconduct (e.g., intentional
multiple submissions), the journal will no longer accept the authors’
submission. In addition, authors who are found to have academic misconduct
behavior will be included in the “List of Academic Misconduct Authors” of the
journal, and for the authors in this list, the Editorial Office will focus on
reviewing the content of their research results, and may
restrict the publication of their manuscripts.
Appeal, Retraction
and Correction
1. Journal of isotopes accepts
authors’ appeals
If authors have any
disagreement about the review comments or review results, they
could submit a written complaint to the Editorial Office by sending it to
the journal’s email (twsbjb@163.com).
The author who submits the appeal needs to make detailed explanation for each
review comment. After receiving the appeal, the Editorial Office will
investigate and deal with it as soon as possible, and the result of the appeal
will be fed back to the author.
2. Editors will
consider retracting manuscripts under the following circumstances
If a manuscript which
has been accepted by the journal is found to involve academic misconduct, the
Editorial Office has the right to retract the manuscript and inform the
authors’ institutions and other journals of the situation.
If an article which
has been published by the journal is confirmed to involve plagiarized research
results, falsified data, redundant publication, betraying confidential
matters or other issues, the Editorial Office will retract the article,
including publishing a retraction statement publicly, informing the authors and
their institutions, and requiring relevant databases to delete all online
versions of the article so that the adverse effects of the misleading article
could be minimized.
In addition, if an
article which has been accepted or published by the journal is found to
have severe scientific errors, which makes the results and conclusions of
the article unreliable, the Editorial Office will retract the article,
including publishing a retraction statement publicly and requiring
relevant databases to delete the online versions of the article.
3. Editors will
consider correcting manuscripts under the following circumstances
If parts of an article
turn out to be scientifically incorrect but would not materially affect the
results and conclusions (especially due to honest errors), or the author list
of an article is incorrect (i.e., competent authors were ignored or those
unqualified were listed as authors), the Editorial Office will consider to
publish a corrected version of the article.
Digital Archive &Online Accessibility
Articles
published by the journal since its establishment in 1988 have been digitally
archived on the journal’s official website, through which readers can directly
access the articles online. All information and material are backed-up in
the Editorial Office for security reason, including the print-copy and digital-copy
of all issues, and all other relevant material (e.g., authors’additional
information and forms submitted during submission).
In addition to
archiving on our official website, the full-text of the journal’s articles
is also stored in the following databases and platforms: CNKI,
Wanfang Data, Chongqing VIP Journal Database, Superstar Journals
Database, Aidubao Database of China Post, and
Bookan platform. Readers can access the above-mentioned databases and
platforms to obtain the articles published by Journal of Isotopes.
