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Editor Overview
jomcct maintains an Editorial Board of practicing researchers from around the world, to ensure manuscripts are handled by editors who are experts in the field of study.
Dr. A. Nepolraj
Head and Assistant professor
Annai College of Arts and Science, Tamilnadu, India 612503
Editor in Chief
Journal of Modern Chemistry & Chemical Technology
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Institutional Profile Link : https://www.annaicollege.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Nepolraj-Resume.pdf
Publisher
STM Journals, An imprint of Consortium e-Learning Network Pvt. Ltd.
E-mail: chemical@stmjournals.com
Tel: (+91) 0120- 4781 200, (+91) 120 4741 239
Mob: (+91) 981-007-8958, (+91)-966-7725-932
Journal of Modern Chemistry & Chemical Technology fully adheres to the Code of Conduct of Publication Ethics (COPE) and its Best Practice Guidelines. and is dedicated to upholding the highest standards of integrity and ethics in publishing. This policy outlines the responsibilities and ethical obligations of all parties involved in the publication process—authors, reviewers, editors, and the publisher—to ensure transparent, fair, and respectful practices that foster scientific excellence and trust.
Responsibilities of Reviewers
Contribution to Editorial Decisions
- Expert Evaluation: Reviewers assist editors in decision-making and help authors improve manuscripts through constructive feedback.
- Timeliness: Reviewers unable to meet deadlines should notify the editor promptly.
Standards of Objectivity
- Constructive Criticism: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
- Acknowledgment of Sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation.
Promptness
- Review Timeline: Reviewers should complete their reviews within the period specified by the Journal. This is crucial in ensuring a timely review process for manuscripts, benefiting both authors and the editorial decision-making process.
Specific Observations
- Detailed Feedback: Reviewers should provide detailed, constructive feedback that helps both the editor make a decision and the author improve their manuscript. This includes articulating the strengths as well as the weaknesses of the manuscript, with clear and supported suggestions for improvement.
Evaluation of Ethics
- Ethical Concerns: Reviewers should be alert to potential ethical issues in the paper and should bring these to the attention of the editor, including any possible evidence of dual submission, plagiarism, manipulation of data, or inappropriate authorship.
Respect for the Integrity of the Record
- Consistency and Fairness: Reviewers should ensure that their reviews are consistent and fair, applying the same standards to all manuscripts irrespective of the authors’ nationality, religious or political beliefs, gender, or other characteristics.
Responsibilities of Editors
Decision-Making and Fairness
- Editorial Decisions: Editors are responsible for deciding which of the submitted articles should be published. Decisions should be based on the manuscript’s importance, originality, clarity, and relevance to the jomcct‘s scope.
- Fair Review: Editors should ensure that each manuscript received by jomcct is reviewed for its intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Involvement and Cooperation in Investigations
- Ethical Concerns: Editors should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper. This includes contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration to the respective complaint or claims made, but may also involve further communications to the relevant institutions and research bodies.
Publication Decisions and Peer Review
- Responsibility for Peer Review: Editors should ensure that the peer review process is fair, unbiased, and timely. The process should be clearly described on the jomcct‘s website, and editors should use appropriate peer reviewers for papers that are considered for publication by selecting individuals with sufficient expertise and avoiding those with conflicts of interest.
Vigilance Over the Published Record
- Monitoring and Safeguarding Publishing Ethics: Editors should guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions when needed and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct.
- Guidance on Ethical Requirements: Editors should provide guidance to authors and reviewers on everything that is expected of them. This includes providing policies on authorship, originality, and conflicts of interest.
Engagement and Communication
- Feedback and Complaints: Editors should encourage and be willing to consider critiques of their work and to respond to them constructively.
- Continuous Improvement: Editors should work to improve the quality of the Journal, including its systems for selecting and processing manuscripts, through the ongoing review of the jomcct‘s policies and practices.
Promoting Access and Inclusiveness
- Inclusiveness: Editors should seek to engage a diverse group of authors and reviewers to represent the community the Journal serves.
- Accessibility: Efforts should be made to ensure the accessibility of the jomcct‘s content, including adherence to open access policies where applicable.
Policies
Confidentiality
- All manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential. Editors, reviewers, and editorial staff are prohibited from sharing manuscript details with unauthorized persons. Reviewer identities should remain anonymous unless mutual consent is provided by both the editor and reviewer.
Conflict of Interest
Disclosure Requirements
- For Authors: Authors must disclose any financial, personal, or professional relationships that could be viewed as potential conflicts of interest about their submissions. This includes, but is not limited to, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, patents, and grants or other funding. Authors should provide a detailed acknowledgment of any potential conflict of interest in their manuscript, typically in an acknowledgment section or a separate statement.
- For Reviewers:Reviewers should disclose to editors any conflicts of interest that could bias their opinions of the manuscript, and they should recuse themselves from reviewing specific manuscripts if the potential for bias exists. Reviewers must not use knowledge of the work they’re reviewing before its publication to further their interests.
- For Editors: Editors who make final decisions about manuscripts must have no personal, professional, or financial involvement in any of the issues they might judge. If a potential conflict of interest arises, editors should delegate manuscript handling and decisions to other editorial staff or associate editors without such conflicts.
Management of Conflicts
- Transparency: Upon disclosure of any potential conflicts of interest, the Journal should assess the nature and extent of the conflict and decide on the appropriate course of action, which may include publishing a statement with the article detailing the conflict.
- Recusal: In cases where the conflict of interest is considered significant, individuals (authors, reviewers, editors) should recuse themselves from the review process or decision-making related to the manuscript in question.
Role of the Publisher
- The Publisher has a crucial role in supporting jomcct editors in identifying and managing potential conflicts of interest to protect the integrity of the academic record. The publisher should ensure that all participants in the publication process are educated about what constitutes a conflict of interest and the importance of disclosing any potential conflicts.
Procedures for Handling Conflicts
- Clear procedures should be in place for handling conflicts of interest of the editorial staff, reviewers, and authors. This includes steps for identifying potential conflicts, disclosing them appropriately, and deciding on the actions to be taken when a conflict of interest is identified.
Digital Preservation and Accessibility
jomcct is dedicated to preserving the scholarly record for future generations and ensuring accessibility to all published content. Our commitment to digital preservation and accessibility is reflected in our robust infrastructure, archival collaborations, and adherence to accessibility standards.
Archival Partnerships
- jomcct partners with trusted digital preservation organizations and repositories to ensure that published content is preserved and remains accessible, regardless of technological changes or potential disruptions.
Redundant Storage
- We implement redundant storage solutions and backup protocols to protect against data loss. All content is stored across multiple secure locations, providing an added layer of security and accessibility.
Permanent Access
- jomcct strives to guarantee continuous access to content for authors, researchers, and institutions. Through partnerships with institutional and public libraries, we support broad accessibility, including open-access options to reach a global audience.
Compliance with Accessibility Standards
- jomcct adheres to international accessibility standards, including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). We continuously work to optimize our digital platform, ensuring that users of all abilities can access and engage with our content.
Regular Review and Technological Updates
- To stay current with digital preservation practices, jomcct routinely evaluates and updates its preservation methods, taking advantage of advancements in digital archiving and accessibility technology.
Governance
jomcct has established a robust governance framework to oversee digital preservation and accessibility. This governance model ensures that our policies and practices align with the highest standards in scholarly publishing and adapt to ongoing technological advancements.
Policy Oversight
- The governance team at jomcct regularly reviews digital preservation and accessibility policies to ensure they meet evolving industry standards and technological developments.
Ethics and Compliance
- We maintain strict ethical standards in digital preservation, ensuring compliance with copyright laws, data protection regulations, and accessibility requirements, including adherence to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other relevant standards.
Accountability and Transparency
- jomcct is committed to transparency in its preservation practices. We provide clear information on our archival processes and make governance policies accessible to authors, reviewers, and the academic community.
Collaboration with Industry Experts
- To uphold best practices, jomcct collaborates with digital preservation experts and participates in industry initiatives to advance preservation standards.
Risk Management and Contingency Planning
- Our governance framework includes contingency plans to mitigate risks associated with data loss, technological failure, or other challenges. Regular audits and assessments are conducted to ensure that preservation systems remain secure and reliable.
Commitment to Ethical Publishing Standards
jomcct follows the principles and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and similar bodies. We are dedicated to promoting ethical behavior throughout the publishing process and to fostering a culture of integrity and transparency.
Handling of Unethical Publishing Behavior
jomcct is committed to maintaining the integrity of the academic record by addressing any cases of unethical publishing behavior swiftly and effectively. Our approach involves transparent procedures, fair investigations, and collaboration with relevant parties to ensure ethical compliance across all stages of the publication process.
Identification and Investigation
Upon receiving a report or suspicion of unethical behavior, jomcct initiates a preliminary review to assess the validity of the claims. This may include concerns about plagiarism, data falsification, fabrication, authorship issues, conflict of interest, or any other form of misconduct. If initial evidence suggests potential misconduct, we involve the editorial team and may consult external experts in the relevant field to conduct a thorough investigation. This ensures an unbiased and well-informed assessment of the issue.
Actions and Consequences
If misconduct is confirmed, jomcct will take corrective action, such as issuing a correction notice, retraction, or statement of concern. Retractions and corrections are prominently displayed and linked to the original publication to inform readers of any changes or concerns. In the case of retractions or corrections, we indicate the reasons for the action, ensuring transparency for the academic community. jomcct will notify the corresponding author(s) of any allegations and allow them to respond. If the allegations are confirmed, the author(s) will be informed of the consequences and provided with the opportunity to collaborate on corrective measures.
Reporting to Institutions and Funding Bodies
In serious cases of misconduct, jomcct may notify the authors’ affiliated institutions, research bodies, or funding agencies. This collaborative approach ensures that any ethical breaches are addressed at both institutional and publisher levels.
Preventive Measures and Education
To prevent unethical behavior, jomcct provides authors, reviewers, and editors with clear guidelines on publication ethics and responsible conduct in research. We offer resources and guidance on best practices in research integrity, including workshops, webinars, and informational materials for our contributors.
Commitment to Ethical Publishing Standards
jomcct follows the principles and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and similar bodies. We are dedicated to promoting ethical behavior throughout the publishing process and to fostering a culture of integrity and transparency.
Ethics Statement
At jomcct, we believe that ethical principles are integral to the production and dissemination of quality research. We are committed to upholding the highest ethical standards in all stages of the publication process, from manuscript submission to post-publication corrections.
Our core ethical principles are honesty, integrity, transparency, objectivity, fairness, and respect for intellectual property rights. We strongly adhere to the guidelines and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and other relevant professional organizations.
We expect our authors, reviewers, and editors to follow these ethical principles and guidelines, ensuring that they conduct their research and publish their work responsibly and ethically.
- Requirement for authors to declare potential conflicts of interest and prompt resolution of ethical concerns
- Prioritization of diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility in research production and dissemination
- Commitment to providing a safe and respectful environment for all individuals involved in the publication process
- Prohibition of harassment, discrimination, and bullying
- Dedication to maintaining the highest ethical standards in publications and continuous improvement of policies and procedures
- Welcoming feedback and suggestions from readers, authors, reviewers, and editors to promote responsible conduct of research.