Ethical principles of publishing an article

The Journal of Hydrogeomorphology is bound by the rules of ethics in publications and is subject to the rules of the Ethics Committee for Publication (COPE) and follows the executive regulations of the Law on Prevention and Combating Fraud in Scientific Works.

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1- Publication duties:                                                                                                                   

• The refereeing procedure of the article is secret and the referee does not see the author's name.
• Publication: Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions based on CC-BY-NC license of creative commons.
• Decision-making about articles: Decision-making about articles is done fairly at any stage, regardless of the race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicity, and citizenship of the authors.
• Confidentiality of information: The personal information of the authors of the articles is completely confidential to all persons who have access to it, such as the editor, internal and executive director of the journal and other active factors (other than the author) such as judges, consultants, editors and trusted publishers. It is protected.
• Respect for the interests of individuals: The possibility of using the results of other people's research should be done with the reference and written permission of the author.

   2- Duties of judges:

• Helping the editorial decision: The judges should assist the editor of the journal in reviewing the quality, content and science of the articles or help to improve and enhance the quality and content of the articles through the communication of the editorial members with the respected author.
• Judging speed: The selected judges should immediately inform the editor of the publication about the result after the initial review, which includes:
• Lack of judging the article is due to the lack of subject matter in the field of referee work, lack of time or ....
• Arbitration is accompanied by delays due to busy time, lack of access to sufficient facilities, and so on..
• Confidentiality of information: All information contained in the articles should be considered confidential to the arbitrator and the arbitrator should try to maintain it.
• Judging by presenting scientific and transparent documents and arguments: Judging articles should be sufficient based on scientific documents and arguments, should be clearly stated and these documents should be presented to journals and authors and from the point of view of taste, personal, racial and Religious etc. refrain from judging articles.
• Paying attention to the resources used in the article: Paying attention to the resources used in the article is another task of the judges. All research, topics and citations used in the article should be accompanied by a complete reference in the bibliography.
• Non-arbitration of articles with personal intentions: The judges should not accept articles for which the interests of certain individuals, institutions and companies are obtained or personal relationships are observed.

3-Duties of authors:

• Submission of scientific and standard articles: Authors of articles should be prepared in a scientific and coherent manner, according to the standard of publications. The method used in the article should be done accurately and objectively and the data should be reported correctly. The rights of other people in the article should be respected through full citations. Refrain from expressing sensitive and immoral, tasteful and personal, racial and religious issues and false and inaccurate information and translations of other people's works without mentioning the title in the article.
• Provide raw data as needed: Ask the author to provide raw data, interviews, questionnaires, and other research tools if needed. Public access to this information (compliant with the ALPSP-STM statement) helps to improve the performance of articles.
• Originality of the submitted article: Articles submitted by the authors should be the work of the author presenting the article and any use of other people's research should be mentioned in the article.
• Failure to publish an article or an article accepted and published at the same time: It is against the law to submit an article to several publications or articles published or accepted to other publications at the same time.
• Mention appropriate referrals: Mentioning includes mentioning all books, publications and websites and other research of individuals in the bibliography.
• Mentioning the person in charge and colleagues in the article and being careful in the absence of irrelevant names: The person in charge of the article is the person who has played a major role in preparing, preparing, designing and executing the article And the main author of the article should make sure that the names and information of all the authors exist and that there are no names other than the authors of the article. Also, all the authors of the article have read and agreed to submit it.
• Mention financial sponsorships: Authors should also list all financial sponsorships of their article.
• Reporting major errors in articles: Whenever the author notices any errors or inaccuracies in her article, she informs the publication about it, takes action to correct it or withdraws the article.