Publication Ethics

EDUVERSA : Journal of Universal Education Studies is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and adheres strictly to ethical guidelines defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). All parties involved in the publishing process—authors, editors, and reviewers—must conscientiously follow these behavioral and ethical expectations.

1. Ethical Duties of Editors

  • Publication Decisions: The Editor-in-Chief of Eduversa is responsible for deciding which of the submitted articles should be published, based on the reviewer's evaluation, academic validity, and the journal's scope.

  • Fair Play: Editors evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content regardless of the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.

  • Confidentiality: Editors and editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, and the publisher.

  • Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

2. Ethical Duties of Reviewers

  • Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and helps the author improve the manuscript through editorial communications.

  • Promptness: Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse themselves from the review process.

  • Confidentiality: All manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

  • Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

  • 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 with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

     

3. Ethical Duties of Authors

  • Reporting Standards: Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper.

     

  • 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.

  • Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Eduversa implements a strict anti-plagiarism policy (maximum similarity score of 20%).

  • Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior.

     

  • Acknowledgement of Sources: Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

     

  • 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.

     

  • Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript.

4. Handling of Unethical Behavior

  • Identified Violations: In cases of suspected or alleged scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism, the editorial board will take appropriate action guided by COPE guidelines.

  • Sanctions: If the journal becomes aware of any proven violation of publication ethics, the article will be retracted, notices of retraction will be published, and further submissions from the responsible authors may be banned for a specific period.