Publication Ethics
The ethical policy of Journal of Industrial Technology Development is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and complies with the International Committee of Journal Editorial Board codes of conduct.
- Readers, authors, reviewers, and editors should follow these ethical policies once working with the journal.
- Any kind of plagiarism constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
- For information on this matter in publishing and ethical guidelines please visit http://publicationethics.org.
Publisher responsibilities
- The publisher should ensure that editorial decisions on manuscript submissions are final are only made based on professional judgment and will not be affected by any commercial interests.
- The publisher should monitor the ethics of Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Editorial Board Members, Reviewers, Authors, and Readers.
- The publisher is always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, and retractions involving its publications as and when needed
Editorial responsibilities
- The editor should have the full authority to reject/accept a manuscript.
- The editor makes the final decision on whether or not to accept articles based on the opinions of the judges and editorial board members.
- The editor must maintain the confidentiality of the content of the submitted articles until their publication.
- The editor should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
- The editorial team should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.
- The editorial team should be willing to investigate plagiarism and fraudulent data issues and willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
- Due to the journal's review policy (Double-Blind), the anonymity of the judges and authors should be maintained.
- The editorial team should not disclose the information and content of the articles to anyone other than the lead author, the reviewers, and, if necessary, other editorial staff.
Reviewers’ Responsibilities
- Confidentiality of article information must be observed in all areas. The article review process is to be done anonymously.
- Reviewers should judge articles at the appropriate time and assist the editorial team in deciding whether or not to accept the article.
- The referees' suggestions regarding the published articles should be submitted in the form of judging forms and in the comment section for the author and editor.
- Reviewers should refrain from judging articles with conflict of interest and report any conflict of interest as soon as possible.
- Reviewers' judgments about the quality and content of articles should be based on professional and objective opinions.
Authors’ Responsibilities
- It is necessary to observe the basic principles of writing and research in writing articles, and articles should be written and arranged according to the format of the journal (http://jtd.iranjournals.ir/page_666.html)
- All authors whose names are mentioned in the article and the letter of commitment form must participate in writing and compiling the article.
- Appreciation and organizational affiliation of authors should be mentioned in the article and any conflicts of interest between authors or organizations should be mentioned.
- For the sustainability and development of the specialized review process, qualified authors are invited to participate in the review process of other articles in this journal.
- Authors should report the sponsor of the research clearly (if any).
- Authors must notify the editor as soon as possible if they find a mistake or correction in their published article to correct or revoke the article.
- All authors should be aware that articles submitted to this journal are reviewed by SAMIM NOOR similarity detection system to prevent scientific misconduct.
- Authors should cite correctly and appropriately all the sources they have used, both directly and indirectly.
- During the manuscript submission, peer review, and publication process, the corresponding author is typically responsible for communicating with the journal and ensuring that all of the journal's administrative requirements, such as authorship details, ethics committee approval, clinical trial registration documentation, and conflict of interest statements, are properly completed. Throughout the submission and peer review process, the corresponding author should promptly respond to editorial queries and cooperate with any requests from the journal after publication.
Plagiarism Policies
Finding cases of plagiarism is not an easy task; therefore, the Scientific Quarterly Journal of Industrial Technology Development uses the SAMIM NOOR similarity detection system for this issue. Therefore, after registering in this quarterly journal, articles are checked by this system and accepted if they have a similarity of less than 20%.
Archiving
The plan for electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal's content (https://jtd.iranjournals.ir/journal/about?lang=en) is indicated. This policy sets out how the authors of Journal of Industrial Technology Development can archive copies of their work on their web pages, corporate web pages, and various other subject repositories.
Journal of Industrial Technology Development is an open-access license, articles can be made available immediately according to the terms of their specific Creative Common license. If an author has published an article under an Open Access license, Journal of Industrial Technology Development would encourage the author to share the Version of Record on publication as opposed to the Accepted Manuscript.
Authors may also reuse the Abstract and Citation information (e.g. Title, Author name, Publication dates) of their article anywhere at any time including social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook, blogs, and Twitter, providing that where possible a link is included back to the article on the Journal of Industrial Technology Development site. Preferably the link should be, or include, the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) which can be found in the Citation information about the article online. The accepted version may be placed on: the author's website and/or the author's company/institutional repository or archive. Self-archiving of the submitted version is not subject to an embargo period.
Journal of Industrial Technology Development is now formally archived at:
