Journal Policies

We do care about ethics in the scientific world, and do our best to provide an ethical publication process. The manuscript should be original and should not have been submitted either previously or simultaneously elsewhere, neither in whole nor in part. If there is a plagiarism detected in the article, the manuscript will be rejected and any future publication of this manuscript will be suspended (even after corrections).

Plagiarism

• Authors may not present results obtained by others as if they were their own. Authors should acknowledge the work of others used in their research and cite publications that have influenced the direction and course of their study.
• Reproducing text from other papers without properly crediting the source (i.e., plagiarism) and producing papers with almost the same content by the same authors (i.e., self-plagiarism) is not acceptable.
• Submitting the same results to more than one journal concurrently is unethical.

Duplicate submission

Simultaneous submissions of the same manuscript to different journals are not tolerated. The submitted article will be removed without consideration.

Corrections and retractions

All authors have an obligation to inform and cooperate with journal editors to provide prompt retractions or correction of errors in published works.

When an error is discovered in published or submitted work, the mistake should be admitted and an erratum or retraction will be published. Corrections should be approved by all authors of the original article, unless there is a particular reason why this is not possible. In these cases, any dissent among the authors should be noted in the published correction.

An Erratum, a Retraction, and Expressions of Concern will be published in such a manner, and it will be free to access.

• A text will be provided with an appropriate title (Erratum, Retraction, or Expression of Concern) as well as information to identify the article that it refers to.
• It will be published on a numbered page (both in print and online) and listed in the journal’s table of contents.
• It will cite the original article and link electronically with the original electronic publication wherever possible.
• It will enable the reader to identify and understand why the article is being retracted, or should explain the editor’s concerns about the contents of the article.
• It will be in a form that enables indexing and abstracting services to identify and link to original publications.

Engineering Transactions will issue retractions if:

• there is clear proof that the results are unreliable, either because of misconduct (e.g., data fabrication) or honest error (e.g., miscalculation or experimental error);
• the outcomes have been published before elsewhere without proper cross-referencing;
• article contains plagiarism or reports unethical research;

Engineering Transactions will issue errata upon the request of authors if:

• a small portion of an otherwise reliable publication is misleading;
• the author list is not valid (i.e., omitting somebody or including somebody who does not meet authorship criteria).

The new content will be reviewed and subject to the editorial approval considering the impact of the change.