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*******Ethical Guidelines for Editors-in-Chief/Editorial Board Member
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The Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision to publish the manuscript in the journal based on peer-reviewers comments. It is expected that Editors during the review process should be principled, prompt, act with confidence, contribution to the final decision, acknowledge source, and stick to objectives and guidelines mentioned below
Editors should understand that the peer review process is confidential. The review process should not be shared with anyone outside the peer review process.
Editors clearly understand that review process should be unbiased and author deserves full credit for their work.
Editor-in-Chief should discuss all matter regarding publication with the Editorial board members before making a final decision.
Editors should automatically reject manuscript that are inappropriate or out of scope of the journal.
Editors must investigate if they receive information that a manuscript is plagiarized, under consideration elsewhere or has already been published. If there is evidence that the manuscript has been plagiarized, under consideration elsewhere or has already been published, then the Editor-in-Chief should issue an erratum.