Author Guidelines

Statement of ethics and responsibilities of authors/reviewers/editors/publishers

This journal is committed to ensure the strict adherence of all forms of ethics in publication. The committee on publication ethics has make known a comprehensive publication ethics statement in their web pages- http://publicationethics.org/files/u2/New_Code.pdf

We claim clearly the following policies for publication of this journal.

1. Publication and authorship:

The papers published in the journal should provide a complete reference list with clear acknowledgement for the use of literature. The financial support for the creation of the work needs to be clearly spelled. The journal will not permit the publication of a same paper or even part of the paper in two different media.

2. Author's responsibilities:

Authors should accept the principle of review process. The authors listed in the paper are expected to have contributions in the research carried out. The authors need to accept the data and content presented in the work are authentic. If any changes or corrections are carried out they should be clearly stated.

3. Peer review / responsibility for the reviewers:

Reviewers need to understand their professional responsibilites. They should ensure that the review is objective and the comments are based only based on the content of the work. The reviewers have no conflict of interest in any form. Reviewers play additional role of directing the authors in using relevant research pieces. Reviewers should not use any of the work given to them for review for other purposes including publications.

4. Editorial responsibilities:

Editors make very objective decision for the selection or rejection of the papers. They need to ensure that the papers accepted are contributing to the scholarship and scientific value. They need to keep the identity of the reviewers secret. They should encourage to acknowledge and correct if errors are found.

5. Publishing ethics issues

This publisher has good amount of responsibility in implementing the claimed ethics statement. The academic and research eminence and scholarship will be maintained by the publishers. Business process should not compromise ethical and intellectual requirements. If any unexpected errors occur, they should be corrected with an open statement.

In the scholarship and scientific eminence of publication, the plagiarism should be completely eliminated and all the concerned partners such as publishers, editors, reviewers and authors should ensure this process.

Review Policies

The Journal of Science and Technology Metrics follows triple blind review system where each submission undergoes review by a minimum of three domain experts. The experts are selected based on their domain knowledge and research experience including their publication and citation profile. A paper will be accepted ONLY if ALL the three reviewers recommend the acceptance with consistency. The journal use a very strong review scale which includes originality, novelty, methodological strength, experiments, data, inferences, analysis, presentation and language. The authors are clearly informed that the journal uses a very strong anti-plagiarism policy. The plagiarism is checked at many levels by different team which includes editors, sub-editors, reviewers and plagiarism detection experts. The journal requires the reviewers to recommend any one of the four decisions. It includes clear acceptance, major revision, minor revision and rejection. It is found that in the last ten years the journal has not received any clear acceptance from the reviewers. The papers which are recommended with major revisions are not accepted.

Transfer of Copyright

1 The authors of the accepted papers need to sign a copyright form for the papers accepted by DLINE journals.

2 Grant of Rights
The Author/Editor grants (for U.S. or U.K. government employees: to the extent transferable according to applicable law or regulations) to the Publisher (respective to the owner if other than the Publisher) the following rights to the Article, including any supplemental material, and any parts, extracts or elements thereof:

• the right to reproduce and distribute the Article in printed form, including print-on-demand;
• the right to produce prepublications, reprints, and special editions of the Article;
• the right to translate the Article into other languages;
• the right to reproduce the Article using photomechanical or similar means including, but not limited to photocopy, and the right to distribute these reproductions;
• the right to reproduce and distribute the Article electronically or optically on any and all data carriers or storage media – especially in machine readable/digitalized form on data carriers such as hard drive, CD-Rom, DVD, Blu-ray Disc (BD), Mini-Disk, data tape – and the right to reproduce and distribute the Article via these data carriers; the right to store the Article in databases, including online databases, and the right of transmission of the Article in all technical systems and modes; the right to make the Article available to the public or to closed user groups on individual demand, for use on monitors or other readers (including e-books), and in printable form for the user, either via the internet, other online services, or via internal or external networks.

The rights pursuant to clause 2.1 shall be granted as exclusive rights for the duration of the copyright, each unlimited in geographic scope. Should the Author wish to reproduce and distribute the Article elsewhere after one year following publication, the Author must obtain the written consent of the Publisher. Taking into account the interests on both sides, the Publisher shall not unreasonably withhold its consent. If the Article is submitted by the Editor, the Editor shall inform the Author(s) of this provision.
The Publisher may transfer the rights granted to it pursuant to clauses 2.1 and 2.2 in whole or in part to third parties, or may grant licenses to third parties to use rights to which it is entitled.
The Author/Editor furthermore grants the Publisher the exclusive and permanent rights without any restriction as to content and territory for all forms of media of expression now known or that will be developed in the future. The grant of rights shall also extend to the exploitation of rights of use both in the Publisher’s own publishing company and through the grant (including a partial grant) of rights to third parties in exchange for remuneration or free of charge.
 
Obligations of the Author/Editor
The Author/Editor warrants that a) Author is the Author of the Article or, if Editor, Editor has properly and irrevocably acquired without restriction any and all rights in and to the Article to the extent as stated in clause 2.1.; b) Author/Editor is entitled without restriction to grant such rights to the Publisher; c) the Article is not libelous and does not infringe on any copyrights, performing rights, trademark rights, personal rights or any other third party rights or is otherwise unlawful; and d) the Article or substantial parts thereof have not been published elsewhere.
The Author will indemnify the Publisher against any costs, expenses, or damages, including reasonable attorney's fees, which the Publisher may incur or for which the Publisher may become liable as a result of a breach of the warranties. These representations and warranties will survive the termination of this Agreement and may be extended to third parties by the Publisher.
 
4 Retention of Rights
The Author/Editor may deposit an Author-created version of the Article on Author’s/Editor’s funder’s or funder’s designated repository at the funder’s request or as a result of a legal obligation, provided it is not made publicly available until 2 weeks after publication. The Author/Editor may only post the Article provided acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication and a link is inserted to the published Article on Publisher’s website. The link must be accompanied by the following text: “The final publication is available at www.dline.info. The Author/Editor is requested to use the appropriate DOI for the Article.
 
Backup Copy
The Author/Editor shall be obliged to retain a back-up copy of the manuscript (data file and print out or PDF, as well as copy for illustrations).
 
Proofreading
Upon receiving the proofs, the Author/Editor agrees to promptly check the proofs carefully, correct any typographical errors, and authorize the publication of the corrected proofs.

Archiving Policy

The authors can host the copy of their papers in their home pages and institutional repositories after one month of the publication of the papers. The source of publication of the article must be clearly stated and the journal name including the imprint should be available in each page of the published papers. The authors can host the electronic version for unlimited period. However, the authors are not permitted to distribute the print version of the papers to any one.

Paper Submission