Ethical Guidelines for Editors
The Editor’s Responsibilities
- Establishing and maintaining quality of the journal by publishing quality papers.
- Promotion of freedom of expression within the cultural, constitutional/legal framework
Good practices
- Encouraging new ideas and suggestions for improving quality of AL-HAYAT RESEARCH JOURNAL (AHRJ).
- Appling the process of blind peer review in its true letter and spirit,
- Promoting & implementing anti plagiarism & journal’s policy without institutional pressure.
Editorial Board Members are prohibited to publish their papers in AL-HAYAT Research Journal (AHRJ).
Ethical Guidelines for Editors
The Editor’s Responsibilities
- Establishing and maintaining quality of the journal by publishing quality papers.
- Promotion of freedom of expression within the cultural, constitutional/legal framework
Good practices
- Encouraging new ideas and suggestions for improving quality of AL-HAYAT RESEARCH JOURNAL (AHRJ).
- Appling the process of blind peer review in its true letter and spirit,
- Promoting & implementing anti plagiarism & journal’s policy without institutional pressure.
- Editorial Board Members are prohibited to publish their papers in AL-HAYAT RESEARCH JOURNAL (AHRJ). Self-Institutional publication is not allowed as well, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest.
Fair play and Impartiality
- Will ensure impartial evaluation of the content of research papers,
- Disregard the all discriminating factors during selection of articles, e.g. gender, race, ethnicity, religious belief, etc. of author(s)
Confidentiality
- Confidentiality of the author(s) and reviewers during the peer review process will be ensured
- Confidentiality of the participants of the research should also be ensured.
- Prior to publication, the content of the manuscript would be kept confidential
Editing and Formatting Guidelines
- Clear guidelines about preparing and formatting of a paper are available on AL-HAYAT RESEARCH JOURNAL (AHRJ) webpage.
The Review Process
- Articles are initially scrutinized and then go through double-blind peer review process.
- Sufficient guidelines along with a Reviewer’s Proforma are provided to reviewers (see: Reviewer’s Proforma download section)
- Sharing the reviewer’s comments with author and incorporation of suggested corrections.
- Referring troublesome cases to Advisory Committee.
Dealing with Misconduct
- Will encourages reviewers to comment on ethical issues and possible misconduct.
- Confirmation of plagiarism through Turnitin and/or searching for similar titles etc.
- Will publish a corrigendum, remove and retract a plagiarized article.
Transparency
- Only one paper as a PI (Principle Investigator) should be published in the same issue.
- Editorial Board Members are prohibited to publish their papers in AL-HAYAT RESEARCH JOURNAL (AHRJ). Self-Institutional publication is not allowed as well, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest. After adoption of HEC new policy for research journals for July 2019 onwards, AL-HAYAT RESEARCH JOURNAL (AHRJ) does not allow Editorial Board and Self-institutional publications, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest (if any).
- Authorship & co-authorship policy will be strictly adopted.
Conflict of Interest
- The editors and reviewers will not edit a submitted paper for those author(s) and/or institution against which s/he has any conflicts of interest.
- Editorial Board Members are prohibited to publish their papers in AL-HAYAT RESEARCH JOURNAL (AHRJ). Self-Institutional publication is not allowed as well, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest. After adoption of HEC new policy for research journals for July 2019 onwards, AL-HAYAT RESEARCH JOURNAL (AHRJ) does not allow Editorial Board and Self-institutional publications, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest (if any).
Disclosure
- will not use any unpublished information/data from the submitted research paper without the permission of the author(s)
Publication Decisions
- Only shortlisted research papers relevant to the scope of the journal will be published after completion of the review process
- Acceptation or rejection of a paper will be based on academic standards.
- The Editor will justify the reason (s) of rejecting a research paper and will timely communicate the editorial decision to the author(s)
Procedure for Appeal
The Editor is responsible for establishing a proper mechanism for appeals launched against:
- The rejection of a research paper.
- Objections to publications causing harm to any party.
Infringement of Ethical boundaries in any manner.
- . Self-Institutional publication is not allowed as well, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest.
Fair play and Impartiality
- Will ensure impartial evaluation of the content of research papers,
- Disregard the all discriminating factors during selection of articles, e.g. gender, race, ethnicity, religious belief, etc. of author(s)
Confidentiality
- Confidentiality of the author(s) and reviewers during the peer review process will be ensured
- Confidentiality of the participants of the research should also be ensured.
- Prior to publication, the content of the manuscript would be kept confidential
Editing and Formatting Guidelines
- Clear guidelines about preparing and formatting of a paper are available on AL-HAYAT RESEARCH JOURNAL (AHRJ) webpage.
The Review Process
- Articles are initially scrutinized and then go through double-blind peer review process.
- Sufficient guidelines along with a Reviewer’s Proforma are provided to reviewers (see: Reviewer’s Proforma download section)
- Sharing the reviewer’s comments with author and incorporation of suggested corrections.
- Referring troublesome cases to Advisory Committee.
Dealing with Misconduct
- Will encourages reviewers to comment on ethical issues and possible misconduct.
- Confirmation of plagiarism through Turnitin and/or searching for similar titles etc.
- Will publish a corrigendum, remove and retract a plagiarized article.
Transparency
- Only one paper as a PI (Principle Investigator) should be published in the same issue.
- Editorial Board Members are prohibited to publish their papers in AL-HAYAT RESEARCH JOURNAL (AHRJ). Self-Institutional publication is not allowed as well, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest. After adoption of HEC new policy for research journals for July 2019 onwards, AL-HAYAT RESEARCH JOURNAL (AHRJ) does not allow Editorial Board and Self-institutional publications, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest (if any).
- Authorship & co-authorship policy will be strictly adopted.
Conflict of Interest
- The editors and reviewers will not edit a submitted paper for those author(s) and/or institution against which s/he has any conflicts of interest.
- Editorial Board Members are prohibited to publish their papers in AL-HAYAT RESEARCH JOURNAL (AHRJ). Self-Institutional publication is not allowed as well, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest. After adoption of HEC new policy for research journals for July 2019 onwards, AL-HAYAT RESEARCH JOURNAL (AHRJ) does not allow Editorial Board and Self-institutional publications, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest (if any).
Disclosure
- will not use any unpublished information/data from the submitted research paper without the permission of the author(s)
Publication Decisions
- Only shortlisted research papers relevant to the scope of the journal will be published after completion of the review process
- Acceptation or rejection of a paper will be based on academic standards.
- The Editor will justify the reason (s) of rejecting a research paper and will timely communicate the editorial decision to the author(s)
Procedure for Appeal
The Editor is responsible for establishing a proper mechanism for appeals launched against:
- The rejection of a research paper.
- Objections to publications causing harm to any party.
Infringement of Ethical boundaries in any manner.
