Publication Ethics

Open Access Policy

To ensure maximum reach of its contents, IJPR has adopted an open access policy. This means that all articles published in IJPR are made freely accessible online immediately after publication, in an easily readable format, without any subscription or registration barrier. All published articles are licensed under a Creative Commons license: they can be shared and adapted, provided attribution for the work is given.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Publishing a peer-reviewed journal requires continuous work, responsibility, and collaboration from everyone involved — authors, reviewers, the chief editor, managing editors, associate editors, and board members. The chief editor and editors are responsible for monitoring publishing ethics and maintaining the academic record; the editorial board shares responsibility for identifying fraudulent data or plagiarism. The editorial team's goal is to maintain the highest publication standards: good-quality, original, research-based articles, along with corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies where needed. We appreciate the contribution of every party to the work we publish.

Publication and Authorship

• All papers submitted to IJPR are subject to a strict double-blind peer review process.
• Rejected articles are not resent for reviewing.
• Authors should provide all sources of data used in the research.

Authors' Ethics and Responsibility

• An author is a person who has made a substantial contribution to the article; all other contributions should be listed as acknowledgments.
• Authors must ensure that the submitted article is their original work, and has not been previously published.
• Authors must ensure that the submitted article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• Authors should cite only the articles that have contributed to their work; unnecessary citations should not be listed.
• Authors should present their work as objectively as possible.
• Arguments that discriminate against people by race, sex, origin, religion, or similar grounds are not accepted, and fabricated results must not be given.
• Authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.
• Authors must report any errors in their published paper to the chief editor or editors.
• Authors should provide a revised version of their article according to reviewers' recommendations.
• Authors are solely responsible for any legal constraints arising from their published data, including copyright issues — the journal or editorial office bears no responsibility for this.

Reviewers' Responsibilities

• Maintaining the confidentiality of the complete review process.
• Providing a detailed, constructive, and unbiased evaluation of the scientific content of the work in a timely manner.
• Identifying relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
• Notifying the journal editor of any financial or personal conflict of interest, and declining to review the manuscript where such a conflict exists.
• Notifying the journal editor of any ethical concerns arising during evaluation — such as a violation of the ethical treatment of animal or human subjects, or considerable similarity between a reviewed manuscript and previously published work.

Chief Editor and Editors' Responsibilities

• Editors decide which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
• Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication.
• Editors should evaluate manuscripts exclusively on the basis of academic merit.
• Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions; editors should publish only peer-reviewed, accepted articles.
• Editors should have a clear picture of a study's funding sources.
• An editor must not use unpublished information in their own research without the express written consent of the author.

Licensing Policy

To fully realize the potential of open access to research literature, barriers to reuse need to be removed. Creative Commons (CC) licenses have emerged as an effective legal instrument to achieve this: instead of transferring rights exclusively to the publisher — the approach usually followed in subscription publishing — authors grant a non-exclusive license to the publisher to distribute the work, and all users and readers are granted rights to reuse it.

CC BY-NC-SA allows unrestricted reuse of content, subject only to the requirement that the source work is appropriately attributed, so that authors are given proper credit for their work, as set out by Creative Commons.

Terms & Conditions Policy

IJPR does not accept accountability for the contents of published articles; such liability lies with the author(s). The opinions expressed in articles are exclusively those of the author(s), and IJPR may not agree with them in part or in full. All articles submitted for publication are peer-reviewed for originality, ethical soundness, and effectiveness.

The decision of the reviewers is final. Authors are solely responsible for the uniqueness of their published work, and IJPR advocates the highest ethical standards of scientific publication. Open-access authors retain the copyright to their papers; reproduction of published material, in part or in full and in any form, is permitted with due acknowledgment of the source, in line with these ethical norms.

Last updated on 20th September 2026