Publication Ethic

Ethics Statement

 Teaching English as a Foreign Language Overseas Journal (TEFLO) ® Ethics Statement

The following guidelines are in accordance to (Committee on Publication Ethics) COPE’s guidelines.

 

Peer Review Process

All submitted manuscripts are read by the editorial staff. The review proccess uses blind peer review system. Those manuscripts evaluated by editors to be inappropriate to journal criteria are rejected promptly without external review. Manuscripts evaluated to be of potential interest to our readership are sent to reviewers. The editors then make a decision based on the reviewer’s recommendation from among several possibilities: rejected, require major revision, need minor revision, or accepted.

Editor Responsibilities

  • Editors are accountable and should take responsibility for everything they publish

Editor should:

  • make fair and unbiased decisions independent from commercial consideration and ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process
  • adopt editorial policies that encourage maximum transparency and complete, honest reporting
  • guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions when needed and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct
  • pursue reviewer and editorial misconduct
  • critically assess the ethical conduct of studies in humans and animals
  • have appropriate policies in place for handling editorial conflicts of interest
  • Peer reviewers and authors should be told what is expected of them

Author Responsibilities

  • The research being reported should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation.

Authors should:

  • present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation
  • strive to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others
  • adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarism, and has not been published elsewhere
  • take collective responsibility for submitted and published work
  • The authorship of research publications should accurately reflect individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting
  • Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest should be disclosed

 

References

1. Kleinert S. & Wager E. (2011). Responsible research publication: international standards for editors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010. Chapter 51 in: Mayer T & Steneck N (eds) Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. Imperial College Press / World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (pp 317-28). (ISBN 978-981-4340-97-7)

2. Wager E. & Kleinert S. (2011). Responsible research publication: international standards for authors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010. Chapter 50 in: Mayer T & Steneck N (eds) Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. Imperial College Press / World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (pp 309-16). (ISBN 978-981-4340-97-7)