Official Journal of the College of Education AlNoor University
NJPS is sensitive to research misconduct and uses all means available to prevent publishing miscounted research. Though there is no standard definition of research misconduct, the Council of Editors broadly defines research misconduct in three categories of action and conduct. NJPS uses this definition of misconduct when dealing with the issue and strictly follows the COPE guidelines for research misconduct. In addition, for each component of the research misconduct, NJPS has many assurance policies as follows
- Mistreatment of research subjects
- Falsification and Fabrication of data
- Piracy and Plagiarism
Falsification and Fabrication of data
Fabrication is making up data without collecting or synthesizing scientific data. Falsification is the manipulation of research material to reach a favorable result. Fabrication and falsification could happen at any stage of research (in the field) up to the publication of a manuscript, where misuse of citation can happen (referencing a citation when the citation does not support the argument). NJPS tries to identify any fabrication or falsification at all levels of manuscript processing, from initial screening to comprehensive evaluation of a revised manuscript, even after a manuscript has been published. Reporting any fabrication and falsification is an ethical duty of our authors, co-authors, reviewers, editors, and readers. In any event of falsification or fabrication, NJPS keeps its right to retract or withdraw the fabricated or falsified article. NJPS strictly follows the COPE flow chart when dealing with fabrication and falsification.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is appropriating another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit. Another category of plagiarism is self-plagiarism, when the author publishes their concept, data, and text in different journals without such duplication. NJPS uses all means to detect plagiarism. As a matter of quality assurance, a similarity of more than 20% in the text of a manuscript will be returned to the author to remove the similarities and reduce the chance of plagiarism. NJPS strictly follows the COPE follow-up chart in dealing with plagiarized articles.