Policies
| CONTENT |
- Publication Policy
- Open Access Statement
- Article Processing Charge
- Copyright Notice
- Peer Review Policies
- Article withdrawal Policy
- Responsibility for the Editor and Reviewers
- Single-blind peer Review Process
- Archiving Policy
- Peer Review Policies for Supplements
| Publication Policy |
Tethys Environmental Science is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and pays regard to Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) on https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing
The subjects covered in the manuscripts submitted to Tethys Environmental Science for publication must be in accordance with the aim and scope of the Journal. Only those manuscripts approved by every individual author and that were not published before in or sent to another journal, are accepted for evaluation.
Changing the name of an author (omission, addition or order) in papers submitted to the Journal requires written permission of all declared authors.
Plagiarism, duplication, fraud authorship/denied authorship, research/data fabrication, salami slicing/salami publication, breaching of copyrights, prevailing conflict of interest are unethical behaviors. All manuscripts not in accordance with the accepted ethical standards will be removed from the publication. This also contains any possible malpractice discovered after the publication.
Plagiarism
Submitted manuscripts that pass preliminary control are scanned for plagiarism using iThenticate software. If plagiarism/self-plagiarism will be found authors will be informed. Editors may resubmit manuscript for similarity check at any single-blind peer-review or production stage if required. High similarity scores may lead to rejection of a manuscript before and even after acceptance. Depending on the type of article and the percentage of similarity score taken from each article, the overall similarity score is expected to be less than 20% without references
Peer-Review
After plagiarism check, the eligible ones are evaluated by the editors for their originality, methodology, the importance of the subject covered and compliance with the journal scope. The editor provides a fair single-blind peer review of the submitted articles and hands over the papers matching the formal rules to at least two national/international referees for evaluation and gives green light for publication upon modification by the authors in accordance with the referees’ claims.
| Open Access Statement |
The journal is an open access journal and all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Except for commercial purposes, users are allowed to read, download, copy, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
The open access articles in the journal are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
| Article Processing Charge |
Processing and publication are free of charge with the journal. There is no article processing charges or submission fees for any submitted or accepted articles.
| Copyright Notice |
Authors publishing with the journal retain the copyright to their work licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) and grant the Publisher non-exclusive commercial right to publish the work. CC BY 4.0 license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
| Peer Review Policies |
| Article withdrawal Policy |
| Responsibility for the Editor and Reviewers |
| Peer Review Process |
Only those manuscripts approved by its every individual author and that were not published before in or sent to another journal, are accepted for evaluation.
Submitted manuscripts that pass preliminary control are scanned for plagiarism using iThenticate software. After plagiarism check, the eligible ones are evaluated by Editors for their originality, methodology, the importance of the subject covered and compliance with the journal scope.
Editors evaluate manuscripts for their scientific content without regard to ethnic origin, gender, citizenship, religious belief or political philosophy of the authors and ensures a fair single-blind peer review of the selected manuscripts.
The selected manuscripts are sent to at least two national/international referees for evaluation and publication decision is given by Editors upon modification by the authors in accordance with the referees’ claims.
Editors do not allow any conflicts of interest between the authors, editors and reviewers and is responsible for final decision for publication of the manuscripts in the Journal.
Reviewers’ judgments must be objective. Reviewers’ comments on the following aspects are expected while conducting the review.
- Does the manuscript contain new and significant information?
- Does the abstract clearly and accurately describe the content of the manuscript?
- Is the problem significant and concisely stated?
- Are the methods described comprehensively?
- Are the interpretations and consclusions justified by the results?
- Is adequate references made to other Works in the field?
- Is the language acceptable?
Reviewers must ensure that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept as confidential and must report to the editor if they are aware of copyright infringement and plagiarism on the author’s side.
A reviewer who feels unqualified to review the topic of a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.
| Archiving Policy |
To guarantee that all papers published in the journal are maintained and permanently accessible, articles are stored in the open repository Zenodo (https://zenodo.org) which serves as an international archival web site and at the same time permits LOCKSS to collect, preserve, and serve the content.
Additionally, authors are encouraged to self-archive the final PDF version of their articles in any institutional or subject repository such as Sherpa/Romeo, Dulcinea, Diadorim, Mir@bel or other repository of the author’s choice. Authors should provide a link from the deposited version to the URL of IUPress journal website.
| Single-blind peer Review Policies for Supplement |
Only those manuscripts approved by its every individual author and that were not published before in or sent to another journal, congress, conference etc. are accepted for evaluation.
Submitted manuscripts that pass preliminary control are scanned for plagiarism using iThenticate software. After plagiarism check, the eligible ones are evaluated by the editors for their originality, methodology, the importance of the subject covered and compliance with the journal scope.
The editor hands over the papers matching the formal rules to at least two national/international referees for single-blind peer review evaluation and gives green light for publication upon modification by the authors in accordance with the referees’ claims.
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