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Bibliographic Information
Title	International Journal of Ethics and Society
Abbreviated key-title	int. j. ethics soc.
ISSN	E-ISSN: 2676-3338 P-ISSN: 2981-1848
Subject Area and Category	https://ijethics.com/page/14/Aims-YW_AND-amp;-Scopes
Description	International Journal of Ethics & Society has license from Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (License No: 85875) and from Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (License No: 1399-66111) International Journal of Ethics & Society has been published since 2019.This journal is official publication of: “Iranian Association of Ethics in Science & Technology” This Journal is published only in English language quarterly. The main topics that the Journal would welcome are: Ethics in Biology and Medical Science, Ethics in ‎Environmental & Ecological Sciences, Ethics in ‎Social Sciences, Ethics in ‎Philosophical Sciences, Ethics in ‎Technical Sciences, Ethics in ‎Economic Sciences. ‎We would be very delighted to receive your Original papers, Review Articles, Short communications, Case reports and Scientific Letters to the Editor on the all ethics research areas.
Language	English
Start Year	May 2019
Frequency	Quarterly
Editor-in-Chief	Hossein Eskandari Prof.
Director-in-Charge	Maryam Malmir Ph.D
Place of Publication	Iran, Tehran
Publisher	Iranian Association for Ethics in Science and Technology (www.iranethics.ir)
Scientific Sponsorship Society	Iranian Association for Ethics in Science and Technology (www.iranethics.ir)
Refereed	Yes
Peer Review Type	Double Blind Peer Review
Average time to review (days)	66
Average time to publish (days)	116
Manuscript acceptance rate	67.6%
ORCID IDs	The ORCID identifier is required.
Type of Material	Serial (Periodical)
Type of Access	Open Access (OA)
OA Policies	The journal adheres to DOAJ's definition of open access.
Type of License	Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Open Access Statement	All articles published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS AND SOCIETY are fully open access; immediately freely available to read, download and share. Articles are published in the IJES Journal title is under the terms of a Creative Commons license 4.0 (CC-By) which permits users to read, print and download, redistribute or republish the article (e.g. display in a repository), translate the article, download for text and data mining purposes, reuse portions or extracts from the article in other works, sell or re-use for commercial purposes. All submitted manuscripts are checked for similarity through a trustworthy software named iThenticate to be assured about its originality and then rigorously peer-reviewed by the international reviewers. The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship, as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use. A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving.
The Policy of Screening for Plagiarism	All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. Manuscripts submitted to the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS AND SOCIETY will be screened for plagiarism using similarity check and plagiarism detection tools. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to check the similarity before submitting their manuscript to the journal. Editors check the plagiarism detection of manuscripts in the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS AND SOCIETY using the Grammarly detection software (www.grammarly.com), and iThenticate (www.ithenticate.com) for English abstracts and use Iranian plagiarism detection softwares such as IranDOC (https://tik.irandoc.ac.ir) and Samimonour (www.samimnoor.ir) for the Persian text. The journal will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism. Whenever it is determined that the manuscript has not complied with the plagiarism rules, it will be REJECTED (before acceptance for publication), and if it was published, it will be RETRACTED for plagiarism issues. The INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS AND SOCIETY aims at ensuring that all authors are careful and comply with international standards for academic integrity, particularly on the issue of plagiarism. Plagiarism occurs when an author takes ideas, information, phrases or words from another source without proper credit to the source. Even when it occurs unintentionally, plagiarism is still a serious ethical violation and unacceptable in scientific academic publications.
Retraction Policy	An article may be retracted when its findings are no longer considered trustworthy due to scientific misconduct or error, it plagiarizes previously published work, or it is found to violate ethical guidelines. An article may be retracted when the integrity of the published work is substantially undermined owing to errors in the conduct, analysis, and/or reporting of the research. Violation of publication or research ethics may also result in a study’s retraction. The original paper will be marked as *RETRACTED* but a PDF version remains available to readers, and the *RETRACTION* statement is bi-directionally linked to the original published paper. Retraction statements will typically include a statement of assent or dissent from the authors.
Complaint Process	The authors have the right to complain and ask explanation if they perceive any misconduct in any applicable policies and ethical guidelines. The authors can raise their complaints by submitting a letter to: infoijethics.com. We follow the COPE guidelines on responding to whistleblowers, which includes protecting anonymity. All the complaints regarding delinquencies in the work processes are investigated according to the prevailing publication ethics practices. An author or any other scholar may submit their complaints about any issues related to: - Authorship issues; - Bias in the review process; - Copyright violation; - Deceiving in research results or wrong research results; - Manuscript processing time is unusually late; - Plagiarism; - The peer-review comments are unsatisfactory; - Unrevealed conflicts of interest; and - Violations of the research ethics and integrity.
Policy for Dealing with Complaints	Once a complaint is received, at first, an acknowledgment is sent to the complainant with the assurance that appropriate action will be taken on a complaint within three working days excluding the complaint receiving date. The investigation process is initiated by the journal handling team according to the directions of the Editor-In-Chief. After the investigation is over, a meeting is held with a complete report on the complaint. The decision has been made and the same is forwarded to the concerned scholar through his/her submitted email ID. We consider complaints as an opportunity to enhance our existing Manuscript Processing System. All the received complaints are dealt with in a polite and timely manner with certainty.
Type of Publication (Processing Charges and Publication Charges)	According to policy imposed by the Journal administration, corresponding author(s) are requested to pay the publication charge at: https://ijethics.com/page/120/Publication-Fee Full-text access: Open Access
Revenue Sources	Organizational and institutional support. International Journal of Ethics and Society is a self-financed open access journal, which is published in online version. Article publication charges levied to authors is the only source of income which is utilized in paying the cost of web presence, pre-press preparations, and staff salaries.
Advertising policy	International Journal of Ethics and Society (IJES) does not endorse any product or service marked as an advertisement or promoted by a sponsor in publications. Editorial content is not compromised by commercial or financial interests, or by any specific arrangements with advertising clients or sponsors. The editorial board of the journal does not accept for consideration and does not print advertising articles (both on a reimbursable and free basis).
Copyright owner / Copyright holder	All content of the Journal is published with open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) This license allows users to copy and redistribute the article under the following conditions: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. Under the following terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. Notices: You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation. No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.
Authorship	The journal adheres that authorship be based on 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. The consent of all authors, as well as related authorities/institutions, have been received prior to the submission of the manuscript. The order of the authors (as to be reflected in the published article) has been established. The adding or deleting of authors once the manuscript has been accepted for publication would have to be accompanied by a signed statement of consent from all authors. All authors have contributed significantly to the research. Authors are obligated to participate in the peer review process, providing retractions/corrections/amendments when necessary. All conflicts of interest/financial support have been declared. Any changes or corrections to a published work require the consent of all authors.
COPE	The INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS AND SOCIETY follows the policies and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and abides by its Code of Conduct in dealing with potential cases of misconduct.
Digital Archiving Policy	International Journal of Ethics and Society (IJES) utilizes the LOCKSS system and to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. Also, ISC, SID , Civilica and the national library of scholarly journals in Iran protect and preserve all the articles in the journal. IJES upload all published articles in both servers to keep forever online. Moreover, IJES permits self-archiving.
I4OC Standards for Open Citations	No. The journal does not yet comply with I4OC standards for open citations.
Data Citation	Data should be cited in the same way as article, book, and web citations, and authors are required to include data citations as part of their reference list. Data citation is appropriate for data held within institutional, subject-focused, or more general data repositories. It is not intended to take the place of community standards such as in-line citation of GenBank accession codes. When citing or making claims based on data, authors must refer to the data at the relevant place in the manuscript text and in addition provide a formal citation in the reference list. The INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS AND SOCIETY follows the format proposed by the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles: Author(s) surname Initial(s). Title of article. Abbreviated title of journal. Year of publication;volume number(issue number):page numbers (e.g. DOI)”.
Data Sharing Policy	The INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS AND SOCIETY uses the Basic Data Sharing Policy. The journal is committed to a more open research landscape, facilitating faster and more effective research discovery by enabling reproducibility and verification of data, methodology, and reporting standards. The INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS AND SOCIETY encourages authors to cite and share their research data including, but not limited to: raw data, processed data, software, algorithms, protocols, methods, and materials. Authors are encouraged to share or make open the data supporting the results or analyses presented in their article where this does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid privacy or security concerns. The INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS AND SOCIETY encourages authors to share the data and other artifacts supporting the results in the article by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a Data Accessibility Statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper. The INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS AND SOCIETY requires authors of Original Investigation, and Special Paper articles to (1) place the de-identified data associated with the manuscript in a repository, and (2) include a Data Availability Statement in the manuscript describing where and how the data can be accessed. The INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS AND SOCIETY defines data as the digital materials underlying the results described in the manuscript, including but not limited to spreadsheets, text files, interview recordings or transcripts, images, videos, output from statistical software, and computer code or scripts. Authors are expected to deposit at least the minimum amount of data needed to reproduce the results described in the manuscript. Data can be placed in any repository that makes data publicly available, providing a unique persistent identifier, including institutional repositories, general repositories (e.g., Figshare, Open Science Framework, Zenodo, Dryad, Harvard Dataverse, OpenICPSR), or discipline-specific repositories. The Data Availability Statement should be placed in the manuscript at the end of the main text before the references. This statement must include (1) an indication of the location of the data; (2) a unique identifier, such as a digital object identifier (DOI), accession number, or persistent uniform resource locator (URL); and (3) any instructions for accessing the data, if applicable. At the point of submission, you will be asked if there is a data set associated with the paper. If you reply yes, you will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). If you have selected to provide a pre-registered DOI, please be prepared to share the reviewer URL associated with your data deposit, upon request by reviewers. Where one or multiple data sets are associated with a manuscript, these are not formally peer-reviewed as a part of the journal submission process. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of the data. Any errors in the data rest solely with the producers of the data set(s). Please note: As you are submitting your manuscript to the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS AND SOCIETY where submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed, the main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors (i.e., Author Name, Address, Conflict of Interest, and fund-related information). As a data availability statement could reveal your identity, we recommend removing this from the anonymized version of the manuscript. Exceptions to this policy will be made in rare cases in which de-identified data cannot be shared due to their proprietary nature or participant privacy concerns. Exceptions to policy and restrictions on data availability are granted for reasons associated with the protection of human privacy, issues such as biosafety, and/or to respect terms of use for data obtained under license from third parties. Confidential data, e.g., human subjects or patient data, should always be anonymized, or permission to share should be obtained in advance. If in doubt, authors should seek counsel from their institution’s ethics committee. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper. Below are some examples. Data Availability Statement: 1. Data associated with this article are available in the Open Science Framework at . 2. The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at http://doi.org/[doi], reference number [reference number]. 3. The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at [URL], reference number [reference number]. 4. The data that support the findings of this study are available in [repository name] at [URL/DOI], reference number [reference number]. These data were derived from the following resources available in the public domain: [list resources and URLs]
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