Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice
RE&PQJ Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement is based, in large part, on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The European Association for the Development of Renewable Energies, Environment and Power Quality (EA4EPQ) expect all parties commit to these publication ethics. The EA4EPQ do not tolerate plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, or other unethical behavior and will remove any manuscript that does not meet the standards included in: https://publicationethics.org/core-practices and in order to ensure a hight quality of the articles the Editor-in-Chief of RE&PQJ to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards and fully withdraw the articles that are not entirely original works. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications
The relevant responsibilities of authors, reviewers, and editors are set out below:
Authors Responsibilities
The authors must guarantee that their manuscripts are their original work.
The authors must guarantee that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
The authors must guarantee that they have written entirely original work.
The authors must guarantee that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.
The authors must notify us of any conflicts of interest.
The authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript.
The authors must report any errors they discover in their manuscript.
If the work involves chemical, animals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the authors must clearly identify these in the manuscript.
Reviewers Responsibilities
The reviewers of the RE&PQJ Scientific Committee must notify us of any conflicts of interest.
The reviewers of the RE&PQJ Scientific Committee must keep information pertaining to the manuscript confidential.
The reviewers of the RE&PQJ Scientific Committee must ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources of date used in the research. Any kind of similarity between the manuscript and other published paper, must be immediately brought in to notice to the Editor-in-Chief.
The reviewers of the RE&PQJ Scientific Committee must bring to the attention of the Editor-in-Chief any other information that may be reason to reject publication of a manuscript.
The reviewers of the RE&PQJ Scientific Committee must at any time evaluate manuscripts only for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
The reviewer of the RE&PQJ Scientific Committee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify us and excuse himself from the review process.
Editorial Board and Chief Editor Responsibilities
Based on the review report of the peer review process, Chief Editor has the right to accept or reject the manuscript, or can send it to the authors for the modifications.
The Editorial Board must keep information pertaining to submitted manuscripts confidential.
The Editorial Board must disclose any conflicts of interest.
The Editorial Board must evaluate manuscripts only for their intellectual content.
The Editorial Board is responsible for making publication decisions for submitted manuscripts.
Manuel Pérez Donsión
Editor-in-Chief
Important links
COPE-Committee on Publication Ethics
