Policies on Ethics

The Journal of Technology Research (JTR) believes in the value of maintaining the integrity of the scientific record. The Editorial Board members do the best they can to ensure that published articles follow the best available standards for research. The journal is committed to ensuring the highest standards of publication ethics and prohibiting misconduct in publishing by all possible measures. The journal's responsibility is to publish original works of scientific value in the best possible way and to the highest possible standards. Honesty, originality, and fair treatment from authors, as well as impartiality, objectivity, and confidentiality from editors and reviewers, are among the ethical values that enable us to achieve our goal. The journal is also committed to following best practices in ethical matters, errors, and retractions, and to providing judicial review when necessary.

Conflict of Interest (COI)
All corresponding authors are required to declare any conflicting interests related to the conduct of the submitted research. To ensure best practice is followed on drafting such declarations, authors are required to fill out the Conflict of Interest form. This form generates a COI statement based on the answers provided by the author to a given set of questions. This statement will be included in the final published version of the article.

Plagiarism
The Journal of Technology Research uses Plagiarism Checker X software to ensure the originality of the submitted manuscripts. The maximum allowed similarity index is 25%. Manuscripts exceeding this threshold will be returned to authors for revision or rejected. Please ensure proper citation of all referenced materials and original writing throughout your paper. Extensive plagiarism can be a reason for rejecting the manuscript during the initial screening (before peer-review). The manuscript will be checked again for plagiarism in cases where significant changes are introduced by the author during the process of peer-review.

Authorship
The Journal of Technology Research discourages any submissions that involve what is known as guest or ghost author. Each author of a given manuscript should fulfill all of the following 4 criteria:
“Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
Final approval of the version to be published; AND
Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.”
However, only the corresponding author is responsible for submitting all the relevant details as well as for tracking the manuscript through the review and production processes.

Cases of Misconduct
Although not currently a member, The Journal of Technology Research follows the Committee on Publication Ethics Code of Conduct. Consequently, the relevant COPE Flowchart will be used to guide the Editorial Board in tackling cases of suspected misconduct. This includes any breach of the rules mentioned above as well as other types of scientific misconduct (e.g. data fabrication, data manipulation, authorship disputes, etc.). In case the article in question was already published, retraction might be necessary.