agnetic Resonance in Solids. Electronic Journal.

Publication Ethics

1. Publication and authorship:

• list of references, financial support;
• no plagiarism, no fraudulent data;
• forbidden to publish same research in more than one journal.

2. Author's responsibilities:

• authors obliged to participate in peer review process;
• all authors have significantly contributed to the research;
• statement that all data in article are real and authentic;
• all authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

3. Peer review / responsibility for the reviewers: 

• Judgments should be objective;
• reviewers should have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the research funders;
• reviewers should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited;
• reviewed articles should be treated confidentially.

4. Editorial responsibilities: 

• e.g. editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article;
• editors should have no conflict of interest with respect to articles they reject/accept;
• only accept a paper when reasonably certain;
• when errors are found, promote publication of correction or retraction;
• preserve anonymity of reviewers.

5. Publishing ethics issues: 

• monitoring/safeguarding publishing ethics by editorial board;
• guidelines for retracting articles;
• maintain the integrity of the academic record;
• preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards;
• always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed;
• no plagiarism, no fraudulent data.

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