Duties of Editors
Fair play and editorial independence
The editors of the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Numerical Research (IJAMNR) evaluate all submitted manuscripts solely based on their academic merit. This includes their importance, originality, research quality, validity, and clarity, as well as their relevance to the journal's scope. Decisions are made without any consideration for the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, citizenship, religious belief, political philosophy, or institutional affiliation. Publication and editing decisions are not influenced by governmental policies or any external agencies. The Editor-in-Chief holds complete authority over the journal's editorial content and its publication schedule.
Confidentiality
Editors and editorial staff of IJAMNR maintain strict confidentiality regarding submitted manuscripts. Information about a manuscript is only shared with the corresponding author, peer reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors, and the publisher, as necessary.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Editors and editorial board members of IJAMNR are prohibited from using unpublished information from submitted manuscripts for their own research without the authors' explicit written consent. Any privileged information or ideas gained during the manuscript handling process must be kept confidential and not used for personal gain. Editors with conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with authors, companies, or institutions associated with a manuscript must recuse themselves. In such cases, another editorial board member will be assigned to handle the manuscript.
Publication decisions
The editors of IJAMNR ensure that all submitted manuscripts considered for publication undergo a rigorous peer-review process by at least two experts in the relevant field. The Editor-in-Chief is ultimately responsible for deciding which manuscripts are published. This decision is based on the validation of the work, its importance to researchers and readers, reviewer comments, and legal requirements concerning libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The Editor-in-Chief may consult with other editors or reviewers before making a final decision.
Involvement and cooperation in investigations
IJAMNR editors, in conjunction with the publisher, take responsive measures when ethical concerns arise regarding a submitted or published paper. Every reported instance of unethical publishing behavior is thoroughly investigated, even if discovered years after publication. IJAMNR editors adhere to the COPE Flowcharts for handling suspected misconduct. If an investigation confirms an ethical concern, a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other relevant notice will be published in the journal.
Duties of Reviewers
Contribution to editorial decisions
Peer review is crucial for IJAMNR's editorial decisions and helps authors improve their manuscripts through constructive feedback. As an essential component of formal scholarly communication, IJAMNR believes that all scholars contributing to the scientific process have a responsibility to participate fairly in reviewing.
Promptness
Any invited referee for IJAMNR who feels unqualified to review a manuscript or knows they cannot complete the review promptly should immediately inform the editors and decline the invitation. This allows alternative reviewers to be contacted efficiently.
Confidentiality
Manuscripts received for review by IJAMNR are confidential documents. They must be treated as such and not shown to or discussed with others, unless authorized by the Editor-in-Chief under exceptional circumstances. This confidentiality obligation also applies to invited reviewers who decline the invitation.
Standards of objectivity
Reviews for IJAMNR should be conducted objectively, with clear and well-supported arguments to help authors improve their manuscripts. Personal criticism of the authors is strictly inappropriate.
Acknowledgement of sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work not cited by the authors. Any statement that represents an observation, derivation, or argument reported in previous publications should be accompanied by the appropriate citation. Reviewers should also inform the editors of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published or unpublished manuscript they are aware of.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Any invited referee for IJAMNR with conflicts of interest (competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with authors, companies, or institutions connected to the manuscript) must immediately notify the editors, declare their conflicts, and decline the invitation. This enables the editors to find alternative reviewers. Unpublished material disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer's own research without the authors' explicit written consent. Privileged information or ideas gained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. This also applies to invited reviewers who decline the invitation.
Duties of Authors
Reporting standards
Authors submitting to the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Numerical Research should present an accurate account of their original research, including the work performed, results, and an objective discussion of its significance. Manuscripts should provide sufficient detail and references for others to replicate the work. Review articles must be accurate, objective, and comprehensive, while opinion or perspective pieces should be clearly identified as such. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements are considered unethical and are unacceptable.
Data access and retention
Authors submitting to IJAMNR may be asked to provide the raw data of their study for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable. Authors must ensure such data is accessible to other competent professionals for at least 10 years after publication, ideally via an institutional or subject-based data repository, provided participant confidentiality is protected and proprietary data rights allow.
Originality and plagiarism
Authors must ensure that submitted works are entirely original and that any use of others' work or words is appropriately cited. Publications that have influenced the reported work should also be cited. Plagiarism, in any form (including "passing off" another's paper as one's own, copying substantial parts without attribution, or claiming others' research results), is unethical and unacceptable.
Multiple, duplicate, redundant or concurrent submission/publication
Papers describing essentially the same research should not be published in more than one journal or primary publication. Authors should not submit manuscripts to IJAMNR that have already been published elsewhere. Concurrent submission of a manuscript to multiple journals is unethical and unacceptable. Publication of certain article types (e.g., clinical guidelines, translations) in multiple journals may be justifiable if specific conditions are met: authors and editors of all involved journals must agree, the secondary publication must reflect the same data and interpretation as the primary document, and the primary reference must be cited in the secondary publication.
Authorship of the manuscript
Only individuals who meet the following criteria should be listed as authors in manuscripts submitted to IJAMNR, as they must take public responsibility for the content: (i) significant contributions to the conception, design, execution, data acquisition, or analysis/interpretation of the study; (ii) drafting the manuscript or critically revising it for important intellectual content; and (iii) seeing and approving the final version of the paper and agreeing to its submission for publication. Individuals who made substantial contributions (e.g., technical help, writing/editing assistance, general support) but do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged in the "Acknowledgements" section with their written permission. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring all appropriate coauthors are included, no inappropriate coauthors are listed, and all coauthors have approved the final manuscript and its submission.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Authors submitting to IJAMNR must disclose any conflicts of interest that could be perceived as influencing the results or their interpretation. This disclosure should occur at the earliest possible stage (typically via a disclosure form at submission and a statement in the manuscript). Examples of potential conflicts include financial interests (honoraria, grants, speaking bureaus, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, patent-licensing) and non-financial ones (personal/professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge, or beliefs). All sources of financial support, including grant numbers, should be disclosed.
Acknowledgement of sources
Authors must properly acknowledge the work of others and cite publications that significantly influenced their reported work. Information obtained privately (conversations, correspondence) must not be used without explicit written permission from the source. Information gained while providing confidential services (e.g., refereeing manuscripts) should not be used without explicit written permission from the author(s) of the work involved.
Hazards and human or animal subjects
If the work reported in an IJAMNR manuscript involves chemicals, procedures, or equipment with unusual hazards, authors must clearly identify these in the manuscript. If the work involves human or animal participants, authors must confirm that all procedures complied with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and were approved by the appropriate institutional committee(s). The manuscript must include a statement to this effect. Authors must also include a statement confirming informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human participants, and their privacy rights must always be observed.
Peer review
Authors are obligated to participate in the peer review process for IJAMNR and cooperate fully by promptly responding to editors' requests for raw data, clarifications, and proof of ethics approval, patient consents, and copyright permissions. If a first decision is "revisions necessary," authors should respond to reviewers' comments systematically, point-by-point, and in a timely manner, revising and resubmitting their manuscript by the given deadline.
Fundamental errors in published works
If authors discover significant errors or inaccuracies in their published work in IJAMNR, they are obligated to promptly notify the journal's editors or publisher and cooperate to correct the paper (via an erratum) or retract it. If the editors or publisher learn from a third party about a significant error or inaccuracy in a published work, authors are obligated to promptly correct or retract the paper or provide evidence of its correctness to the journal editors.
Duties of the Publisher
Handling of unethical publishing behaviour
In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism, the publisher of the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Numerical Research, in close collaboration with the editors, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification, or, in the most severe cases, the retraction of the affected work. The publisher, along with the editors, will take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred and will under no circumstances encourage or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.