Publication Ethics and Policies
Social Transformations adheres to the highest standard of academic integrity and publication quality guided by the following ethical responsibilities:
- Fair and deliberate vetting of textual and visual material submissions.
- Double-blind review process of the academic articles run in the journal.
- Forging dynamic and wider base of peer reviewers covering diversity of scholarly valuing of published works.
- Timely and systematic transmission of peer review feedback and results.
- Opening options for interviewees to correct interview transcripts prior to publication.
- Respect, recognition, and crediting of authorship and contributorship based on substantive contributions to study conception and design, data acquisition, analysis, interpretation, supervision, manuscript writing, and intellectual content. Change of authorship and contributorship is subject to disclosure to the Social Transformations editorial staff. Publication agreement generated from the estate or next of kin of a deceased author with pending manuscript submission.
- Full disclosure of artificial intelligence tools utilized in any part of research and manuscript production, review, and editorial processes.
- Full disclosure of conflict of interests in the production, editing, and publication of articles and materials run in the journal. In case of a conflict of interests in the editorial staff submission or involvement, replacement should be declared.
- Zero tolerance of deviation, transgression, and other forms of violation of the prohibition against plagiarism. Social Transformations will withdraw articles with plagiarism breach before publication and publicly disclose with clear retraction in case discovered after publication. Authors accused of plagiarism and other forms of publication breach reserve the right to due process.
- Institutional policy and practice of securing Consent to Publish and Transfer of Copyright with explicit author declaration of originality of articles for publication.
- Commitment to confront and inform the author and all relevant parties in the event of publication fraud discovery prior to or after publication.
