Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statment

MJHAS is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and its Best Practice Guidelines.

The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure high-quality scientific works in the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like do arise. The editors of MJHAS take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero-tolerance policy. For information on this matter in publishing and ethical guidelines, please visit http://publicationethics.org.

Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

• Meeting the readers and authors/writers requirements.
•  Attempting to the increasing of publication quality continuously.
•  Applying the process to assuring the quality of published papers/articles.
• Promoting freedom of ideas objectively.
• Maintaining the integrity of academic track record of the authors/writers.
•  Submitting corrections, clarifications, returning, apologizing if necessary.
• Responsible for the style and form the writing, whilst the content and any statements written in the writing is the responsibility of the writers/authors.
• Actively asking the writer/authors, readers, experts, and the editors committee about their opinion and suggestion to increase the publication quality.
• Promoting the assessment to the journal for each finding.
• Supporting the ideas to decrease the research and publication errors by having the authors/writers to enclose their Ethic Clearance forms that have been approved by the Ethic Clearance Commission.
• Participating ideas to educate the researchers about publication ethics.
• Studying the effects of publication policies on the writers/authors and experts and fixing it in order to increase the responsibilities and minimize the errors.
• Having open-minded attitude toward the new or others ideas which possibly oppose personal view. 
• Do not force on his/her own view, authors/writers or third parties view that can cause in giving subjective decision.
• Motivate the authors/writers in order to do constructive improvement to have the proper publications.

Duties and responsibilities of reviewers 

• Commanding duties from the editors committee to review the papers and deliver the results to the editors to determine a proper published paper.
• The reviewers cannot review a paper which involves him/her self directly or indirectly.
• Keeping the privacy of the authors to not publish the corrections, suggestions, and recommendations by giving critics, suggestions, and recommendations.
• Encourage the authors/writers to do improvement to their papers.
• Review again the papers that have been reviewed based on the standards.
• The papers are reviewed in time based on the scientific standard form determined (Data collection method, the authorization of the author, conclusion, etc).

Duties and Responsibilities of authors

• Any facts that might be perceived as a possible conflict of interest for the author(s) must be disclosed in the paper before submission.
• Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their findings.
• The data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the paper so that other researchers can replicate the work.
• Raw data should preferably be publicly deposited by the authors before submission of their manuscript. Authors need to at least have the raw data readily available for presentation to the referees and the editors of the journal if requested. Authors need to ensure appropriate measures are taken so that raw data is retained in full for a reasonable time after publication.
• Simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal is not tolerated.
• The journal accepts exact translations of previously published work. All submissions of translations must conform to our policies on translations.
• If errors and inaccuracies are found by the authors after publication of their paper, they need to be promptly communicated to the editors of this journal so that appropriate actions can be taken. Please refer to our policy regarding updating published papers.
• Your manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already-published figures or images, please obtain the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license. For further information, see the Rights and Permissions page.
• Plagiarism, data fabrication, and image manipulation are not tolerated.
• Plagiarism is not acceptable in MJHAS submissions.

Plagiarism includes copying text, ideas, images, or data from another source, even from your publications, without giving any credit to the source.

Reuse of text that is copied from another source must be between quotes, and the original source must be cited. If a study's design or the manuscript's structure or language have been inspired by previous works, these works must be explicitly cited.

• All MJHAS submissions are checked for plagiarism. If plagiarism is detected during the peer review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication, an investigation will take place, and action will be taken in accordance with our policies.
• Image files must not be manipulated or adjusted in any way that could lead to a misinterpretation of the information provided by the original image.
• If irregular image manipulation is identified and confirmed during the peer review process, we may reject the manuscript. If irregular image manipulation is identified and confirmed after publication, we may correct or retract the paper.

Our editors will investigate any allegations of publication misconduct and may contact the authors' institutions or funders if necessary. If evidence of misconduct is found, appropriate action will be taken to correct or retract the publication. Authors are expected to comply with the best ethical publication practices when publishing with MJHAS.