Publication Ethics Statement
Journal of Zhengzhou university (natural science edition) is a scientific journal with strict peer-reviewed procedure, and we always stick to the principles of reinforcing scientific ethics and cultivating academic atmosphere. The statement for publication is as bellow.
1.Emphasize scientific ethics progress and promote creative spirit.
2.Considate academic integrity and standardize academic behavior.
3.Encourage the reviewers observe professional ethics.
4.Require the authors to follow professional standards.
Editors, reviewers and authors of Journal of Zhengzhou university (natural science edition) should perform the following responsibilities, and follow the related guidelines and rquirements of the journal.
Responsibilities of editor
1.The editors should adhere to the code of conduct by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and implement practice guidelines by COPE.
2.The editors are obligated to serve authors and reviewers. The strict peer-reviewed proedure should be executed for each manuscript and the principles of fairness and justice should be upheld for the review, acceptance and rejection of manuscripts.
3.The editors should conduct the inspection against academic misconducts for each manuscript in the review process.
4.The editors are required to claim the copyright transfer agreement signed by each author and proof of confidentiality.
5.the editors have the duties to protect intellectual property right and are forbidden to leak the paper content to anyone without participation in the review process before publication.
Responsibilities of Author
1.The submitted manuscript should be authors’ original research. The content should be free of any academic misconducts, including plagiarism, fabrication, falsification，inappropriate authorship, multiple submissions，overlapping publications and slicing publication. The content should be in compliance with the requirements of relevant rules and policies. The manuscript should not involve the secret information.
2.Sources of ideas, achievements, etc. cited in the manuscript and the financial support of research programs that do not involve secret should be specified.
3.Authorship should be limited to those who have made contributions to the research. Authors should have no dispute on the author order. The correspondence author should ensure that the publication of the manuscript is authorized by the other authors.
Responsibilities of reviewer
1.Reviewers should conduct the review grounded on the academic quality criteria strictly. The review of submitted manuscripts should be objective, just and fair.
2.The reviewers should express their views clearly about whether the submitted manuscript should be published or not. If plagiarism, overlapping publication, misconceptions, data falsification and intellectual errors are found in a manuscript, reviewers should inform the editorial office immediately.
3.The reviewers should have no potential competing interests with the author or the research funder.
4.The reviewers are not allowed to seek private interests through manuscript review or even commit plagiarism of the submitted manuscript.
Publication Ethics Statement
1.Monitoring/safeguarding of the publishing ethics will be maintained by the editor-in-chief and the editorial board. Publishers and editors should take reasonable measures to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred. The editor-in-chief should ensure that plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and fraudulent data are not allowed.
2.In no case our journal or our editors will encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.
3.In the event that our journal’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct, the publisher or editor shall deal with allegations appropriately in time.
4.Publishers and editors are always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, withdrawal and apologies as appropriate when needed.
Peer Review Statement
To ensure the academic quality, all manuscripts submitted must be passed four stages of review: initial review, peer review, second review, and final review before being published. The author will ultimately receive an overall review opinion of the manuscript.
1.Initial review. The editors review the academic misconduct, discipline, content integrity, and structural rationality of the manuscript. Some manuscripts may be required to be revised or rejected at this stage.
2.Peer review. To ensure the fairness and objectivity, the editorial department adopts a system of double blind review, where authors and experts hide each other's personal information. And at least two unrelated experts are selected to review each manuscript.
3.Second review. The editor shall provide the second review opinions based on the innovation of the manuscript and the opinions of peer experts.
4.Editor-in-chief final review. The editor-in-chief provides a final opinion of comprehensive review for the manuscript based on the opinions from external reviewers, author revisions, and development of journal.
Copyright Notice
Journal of Zhengzhou university (science edition) is a comprehensive academic journal of natural sciences sponsored by Zhengzhou university and published by the editorial department of journal of Zhengzhou University. In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the journal and authors, clarify the copyright ownership of the journal and authors, and in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China, the following statement is made regarding the copyright matters related to the manuscript:
1.For any paper submitted to our journal, the author should ensure that the submitted paper is their original work and not involving infringement or disclosure. And there are no intellectual property disputes.
2.We have obtained the right to compile, translate, reproduce in both printed and electronic versions, disseminate through online email, and distribute for any paper published in our journal. No other journal, media, website, or individual may reprint, repost, or reproduce, publish our paper without written authorization from this journal.
3.Our journal has signed agreements with Wanfang Database, VIP Database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) Database, Superstar Data Resource Database, etc., allowing them to digitally copy, compile, distribute, and disseminate the full text of our journal through information networks.
4.Journals, media, websites, and various sources authorized and licensed by this journal must indicate "Source of manuscript: Journal of Zhengzhou university (science edition)" or indicate the website of this journal when downloading and using this journal's paper, otherwise it will be deemed as infringement. Any civil disputes, administrative penalties, or other losses arising from improper reprinting or citation of this journal's papers shall be borne by the relevant responsible persons.
Guidelines for Retracting Manuscripts
1.The editor-in-chief will contact the author in case of the potential retraction of the manuscript. The manuscript will be considered for retraction in the interest of academic integrity in the following cases: The manuscript content provides substantial false or unreliable information which cannot be corrected either through fraud or genuine error.Manuscript was previously published elsewhere.The manuscript plagiarizes previously published information.
2.Retracted manuscripts will be removed from the journal’site and a notice of retraction will be posted on the issue’s table of contents.
3.Journal of Zhengzhou university (natural science edition) abides by COPE retraction guidelines.
Author fees
The editorial department is exempt from review fees, and issue an invoice for the proposed articles when we receive the processing fee of authors’manuscript .
Advertising statement
The editorial department only conducts the publication of academic articles, and does not engage in any commercial advertising.