Ethical Guidelines

The Advances in Engineering and Multidisciplinary Knowledge (AEMK) is committed to ensuring the highest ethical standards in the conduct and reporting of research. We expect all authors, reviewers, and editors to adhere to these ethical guidelines.

Authors

1. Originality and Plagiarism: Authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if they have used the work and/or words of others, this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
2. Data Access and Retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable.
3. Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: Authors should not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently. It is also expected that the author will not publish redundant manuscripts or manuscripts describing the same research in more than one journal.
4. Acknowledgement of Sources: Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given.
5. Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors.
6. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript.

Reviewers

1. Confidentiality: Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
2. Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
3. Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
4. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Editors

1. Publication Decisions: The editors of AEMK are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
2. Fair Play: An editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
3. Confidentiality: The editors and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
4. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Editors should require all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections if competing interests are revealed after publication.

Violation of any of these ethical guidelines may result in consequences such as the rejection of the manuscript, banning of the author from the journal, and notification of misconduct to the author’s institution. The specific action taken will depend on the severity of the violation.