The Splendid Journals always promotes new research and scientific applications in the field of Engineering, Science and Technology.  The Splendid Journals is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal and each of the individual who is associated with this journal, i.e., the author, the editors, the peer-reviewers and the publisher should ensure the publication ethics and follow it. The Splendid Journals publish original research papers that has not been published nor under review elsewhere. Our publication ethics encourages integrity in research and our peer review process prohibit any malpractices regarding publication and maintains the originality of every submitted manuscript. Ethical standards for publication are defined to ensure reliable & high-quality scientific research publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that researchers receive credit for their work & ideas. The measures are taken to ensure that an original research work should come out from the researcher and it is a duty of every individual who is related with The Splendid Journals.

Publication Ethics Policy

The Splendid Journals has adopted strict ethics policies for the publication of the manuscript and follows its own mentioned Guidelines

Improper Author Contribution or Attribution

All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved all its claims. It is important to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution.

Redundant Publications and Citation Manipulation

Redundant publications involve inappropriate division of study outcomes into several articles. So, submitted manuscripts that are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal, will incur citation manipulation penalty.

Plagiarism

All the articles which has to be publish in The Splendid Journals are committed to publish only original material, i.e., material that has neither been published elsewhere, nor is under review elsewhere. Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will incur plagiarism penalty.

Data Fabrication, Falsification and Duplicate Submission

Submitted manuscripts that are found to have either fabricated or falsified experimental results, including the manipulation of images, will incur data fabrication and falsification penalty. Manuscripts that are found to have been published elsewhere, or to be under review elsewhere, will incur duplicate submission sanctions. If authors have used their own previously published works, or work that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted manuscript, they are required to cite the previous work and indicate how their submitted manuscript offers novel contributions beyond those of the previous work.

Penalty:

In the event that there are documented violations of any of the above mentioned policies of The Splendid Journals, the following rules will be applied:

• Immediate rejection of the corresponding manuscript.
• Prohibition against all of the authors for any new submissions to  The Splendid Journals, either individually or in combination with other authors of the Fabricated manuscript, as well as in combination with any other authors. This prohibition will be imposed for a minimum period of 1 year which can be extended depending upon the type of penalties imposed.
• Prohibition against all of the authors from serving on the Editorial Board of The Splendid Journals.

In cases where the violations of the above policies are found to be particularly offensive/flagrant, the publisher reserves the right to impose additional restrictions beyond those described above.

ETHICAL GUIDELINES FOR THE AUTHOR

There are some ethical guidelines which The Splendid Journals authors should follow in order to maintain the originality of their research work.

Plagiarism – Plagiarism is copying even a single sentence from your own or another person’s research paper without citing the source Using another person’s ideas, language, graphs, pictures, results and experiments without giving credit to them also come under  plagiarism. So the author should be very much careful regarding the material cited. An author must not submit a manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously, nor should an author submit previously published work, nor work which is based in substance on previously published work.

Fabrication/Falsification of data – An author should present an accurate account of research performed and an objective discussion of its significance, and present sufficient detail and reference to public sources of information .fabrication of data is making up data or results and recording or reporting them. Falsification of data is manipulating research materials, omitting/deletion/suppression of conflicting data without justification and this would cause mistrust and disgrace to scientific community. Also Fabrication of data by the authors decreases their credibility and originality of their research. An author must avoid making statements in submitted articles which might be construed as impugning any person’s reputation.

Citation Manipulation and concurrent submissions – Citing irrelevant articles that don’t contribute to content of manuscript is a kind of scientific misconduct. Also submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time  is a waste of time of editors and peer reviewers, and  also damages the reputation of  the journals if published in more than one Journals. An author must cite all relevant publications. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, should not be used or reported in the author’s work unless fully cited, and with the permission of that third party.

Redundant publications  and Unacceptable author contribution  – Redundant publication  refers to publishing the same material/experiments more than once and including authors who have not contributed to the research in the manuscript and excluding  those authors who have contributed to the research is unacceptable author contribution. Further all authors whose names appear on the manuscript are equally held accountable for the content of a submitted manuscript or published paper. An author must ensure all named co-authors consent to publication and being named as a co-author, and, equally, that all those persons who have made significant scientific or literary contributions to the work reported are named as co-authors. An author must declare and acknowledge any research funding for the research work.