Journal of International Academy of Physical Sciences (JIAPS) believes that the publication of research papers and articles in any peer-reviewed journal plays a pivotal role in the development of a coherent network of knowledge. Thus, it is important that all the stakeholders e.g. publishers, members of the editorial board, authors, co-authors and reviewers, involved in the process of journal publication should follow the highest level of ethical standards. The Ethical Guidelines that ensure the quality and transparent publication approach of JIAPS are as follows

Duties of Editor in Chief and the Members of Editorial Board

• Editor-in-Chief is the head of Editorial Board and is ultimately responsible for all the processes involved in the act of publication. Once an article/paper is received, Editor-in-Chief forwards it to one of the editors for evaluation of the standard and originality of the work. Editor, thereafter, nominates three reviewers to submit their comments on the article/paper after critical review of the manuscript.

• Submitted manuscripts are to be evaluated for their intellectual content without focusing on authors affiliation, race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, citizenship, or political association. Editor-in-Chief is responsible to resolve all queries, clarification, or complaints posted by authors and to maintain high confidentiality and integrity among the authors.

• The Editorial Board shall provide sufficient time for the author to submit the necessary amendments stated by the reviewer in his/her remarks and before the publication of the article / paper, the Editorial Board shall also ensure that all amendments suggested by the reviewer are included in the manuscript or suitable and convincing responses are provided by the authors.

• The Editor-in-Chief and the team of editors shall maintain the confidentiality of the submitted manuscript and shall not disclose any information about the manuscript to anyone other than authors, reviewers, and publishers. Moreover, the original and unpublished information contained in the manuscript shall not be used by editor for his own research without the written consent of the author.

• The decision of the Editor-in-Chief regarding publication of the submitted manuscript shall be final and cant be challenged. The Editor-in-Chief may be guided by the policies of the journal's Editorial Board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The Editor-in-Chief may consult with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

1. 2. Reviewers  Responsibility

• The manuscript forwarded to the reviewer for blind review shall not indicate the name and affiliation of the authors just to avoid any conflict of interest.

• Reviewer shall go for a detailed examination of the submitted manuscript and submit his/her comment to the editor on the scale of originality, intellectual content, objective and relevance of the work, fulfillment of author's guideline, the correctness of conclusions, the coverage area of the manuscript in reference to the scope of the journal, plagiarism related issues, and the quoted references.

• Reviewer has full right to give as many suggestions or comments in reference to the submitted manuscript and to suggest whether the manuscript is worth publishing or may be rejected.

• The reviewer must describe the appropriate reason if he suggests the rejection of the manuscript.

• Reviewer should not consider evaluating a manuscript in which he has a conflict of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative or other relationship or connection with any of the author.

• Reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its timely review is not possible, should immediately notify the Editor from whom he/she receives the review request. In this case, the Editor concerned will assign it to an alternate reviewer.

1. 3.Author's Responsibility

• It is the sole responsibility of author to write technically correct manuscript with good English and without grammatical mistakes.

• Papers below the standard of Journal and not obeying the parameters of the JIAPS Paper Template shall be returned to the author for rewriting and may be rejected on this ground alone.

• Author should ensure that he is presenting original work in the submitted manuscript with appropriate objective and significance.

• The submitted paper should contain sufficient detail of the work with appropriate citations and should be written strictly in accordance with the JIAPS Paper Templet.

• Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. It is responsibility of the authors to check for plagiarism using standard software.

• To comply with the data protection and privacy rules, everyone who appears in any photograph or image within the submitted manuscript, must be made aware about such inclusion.

• Authors must describe the role of research study sponsor (if any)about the respective study, data collection, analysis and interpretation of data, in writing of the report and decision to submit the paper for publication.

• If any submitted manuscript is found to break professional ethics and submitted to another journal with forged authorship and plagiarized content, shall be immediately removed from the journal website and the process of blacklisting the author shall be initiated.

• Author should not replicate the general research data and should try to avoid the similarities with previously published articles to keep novelty and originality of the submitted work.

1. 4. Publication Process, Copyright, and Term of Submission:

• The submitted manuscript shall be checked by the Editorial Board to meet out the standards of plagiarism and JIAPS paper templet standards.

• If the submitted manuscript does not follow the plagiarism and JIAPS paper templet standard, it shall be returned to the corresponding author for appropriate corrections.
• If the submitted manuscript passes the plagiarism and JIAPS paper format standards, it shall be communicated to three different reviewers for blind review and comments.

• If the submitted manuscript is recommended by the reviewers for publication, the manuscript with the reviewer's comments shall be returned to the Editorial Board for the final decision. The decision of the Editorial Board shall be notified to the corresponding author by the Chief Editor, mentioning the paper acceptance status and the probable volume of the journal that includes the published paper.

• However, if rejection or correction is suggested by reviewers, the respective email will be sent to the corresponding author (by Chief Editor) with reviewers'  comments and the decision of the Editorial board, mentioning whether resubmission is allowed or not.

• Each manuscript must be accompanied by a statement that it has been neither published nor submitted for publication, in whole or in part, either in a serial, professional journal or as a part in any book which is formally published and made available to the public. For the mutual benefit and protection of authors, their institutions, and JIAPS publishers, it is necessary that authors provide formal written consent to transfer Copyright to JIAPS (JIAPS Copyright Form) prior to the publication of their submitted manuscript.

• Papers must be submitted with the assurance that they have not been published elsewhere and are not currently under consideration by any other publisher. The submitting author is responsible for ensuring that the articles publication has been approved by all the other co-authors. Papers may be submitted to journaliaps@gmail.com or through JIAPS online submission process.