JSDF adopts the highest ethical standards in academic publishing and firmly opposes all forms of plagiarism and ethical misconduct. To safeguard the originality and integrity of all published works, all submitted manuscripts undergo a rigorous plagiarism screening process.
Definitions of Ethical Misconduct
• Plagiarism: Republishing the entire content or a portion of another author's work without appropriate citation.
• Fabrication: Inventing data or results that were never actually obtained and presenting them as legitimate findings.
• Duplication: Republishing previously published data or articles, including translations, without explicit disclosure and justification.
• Slicing: Artificially dividing the results of a single research study into multiple smaller publications to increase the number of publications.
• Data Manipulation or Falsification: Deliberately altering or misrepresenting research data to achieve misleading results.
Detection and Screening Process
All articles submitted to the Journal of Sustainable Digital Futures are scanned with the Turnitin software program before printing. Articles with a similarity rate of 20% or less are accepted for publication. Articles exceeding this rate are examined in detail and sent back to the authors for revision or correction if deemed necessary, or if detected, they are rejected for publication due to plagiarism or unethical behavior.
Authors’ Responsibilities
• Authors must guarantee that the submitted manuscript is an original work and that all sources are properly cited.
• If authors have previously published related data or preliminary findings, they must disclose this transparently at the time of submission.
• Authors must avoid unethical practices such as gift authorship, inappropriate acknowledgments, or manipulation of references.
Editors’ Responsibilities
• Editors are obligated to thoroughly investigate any suspicions or allegations of plagiarism or ethical misconduct in accordance with the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
• In cases where ethical misconduct is verified, editors reserve the right to reject the manuscript, request revisions, or retract the published article.
Unethical Behaviors
• Mentioning those who did not contribute intellectually to the study as authors.
• Not specifying the people who contributed intellectually to the study as authors.
• Not specifying if the article was produced from the author's master's/doctoral thesis or a project.
• Slicing, that is, publishing more than one article from a single study.
• Not reporting conflicts of interest regarding submitted articles.
• Deciphering the double-blind refereeing process.
• In the publications made as a result of the research carried out with support, the people, institutions or organizations that support them and their contributions are not stated.
• Using the thesis or studies that have not yet been presented or defended and accepted as a source without the permission of the owner.
• Failure to comply with ethical rules in research on humans and animals.
• Misuse of resources, places, facilities and devices provided or allocated for scientific research.
• Making false or misleading statements regarding scientific research and publications in academic appointments and promotions.
• Plagiarism: To present the original ideas, methods, data or works of others as one's own work, in whole or in part, without attribution in accordance with scientific rules,
• Fraud: Using non-existent or falsified data in scientific research,
• Distorting: To falsify research records or data obtained, to present devices or materials that are not used in the research as if they were used, to falsify or shape the research results in line with the interests of the people and institutions that receive support,
• Republishing: Presenting duplicate publications as separate publications for academic appointments and promotions,
• Slicing: To present these publications as separate publications in academic appointments and promotions by dissecting the results of a research in a way that violates the integrity of the research and publishing it in more than one issue,
• Unfair Authorship: Including people who do not have active contributions among the authors or not including those who do, changing the order of authors unjustifiably and inappropriately, removing the names of those who contributed actively from the work in subsequent editions, having their name included among the authors by using their influence, although they do not have active contributions.
Actions Taken Against Ethical Misconduct
• If plagiarism or ethical misconduct is detected prior to publication, the manuscript will be immediately rejected, and, if necessary, the authors' affiliated institutions will be notified.
• If ethical misconduct is discovered after publication, the article may be retracted from the journal, institutional notifications may be issued, and a retraction notice may be published.
Transparency and Accountability
JSDF meticulously adheres to COPE flowcharts and guidelines to address ethical concerns in a transparent, consistent, and fair manner.
The journal maintains open communication with authors, reviewers, and institutional representatives to ensure that processes regarding ethical violations are conducted professionally.
Notifying the Editor of the Situation Not Complying with the Ethical Principles
In case of an unethical situation regarding an article in the evaluation process, early view or published in Journal of Sustainable Digital Futures, which does not comply with the ethical principles regarding the editors, referees, authors, send a message to jsdfutures@gmail.com must be reported.
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