Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics for Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Mahasarakham University

Author

  1. The author must certify that the work which submitted to journal is a new work and never be published anywhere before.
  2. The author must report the collection of data from research, do not collect fake information or provide misinformation.
  3. The author must refer to the other work, have the work that they use in their own work, as well as prepare a list of end articles.
  4. Every author whose name is in the article must be participants in research work. Other researcher, who participated in the article should be named in the article.
  5. The author must specify the funding source for the research and conflict of interest.

Editor

  1. Editor is responsible for considering the quality of the article which is going to be published in the journal. Editor should not do any progress for any article which have been published elsewhere before.
  2. Editors must not disclose the author's information and also article evaluators to other unrelated persons during the period of evaluation of the article.
  3. Editors must not deny publication because of suspicion or uncertainty. It must have some evidence to prove that doubt before refusal.
  4. Editor must not have conflict of interest with authors/ reviewers
  5. Editor must scan for plagiarism. Any evidence of plagiarism must be clarified

Reviewer

  1. Reviewer of the article must maintain confidentiality and do not disclose the information of the submitted articles to unrelated persons.
  2. After receiving the article from the journal editor, any evidence which lead to impossible to give comments and suggestions freely. Then, the article reviewer should inform the editor and refuse to evaluate the article.
  3. Person who evaluates the article should evaluate the article in his / her field of expertise. Reviewer should not use personal opinions that do not have support information to judge any research articles.
  4. When reviewer identify some plagiarism or uncited sentences/ paragraphs, reviewer should report to journal editor.