IJASI follows strict Code of Conduct and aims to adhere to its Best Practice Guidelines.

Ethical guidelines for journal publication

• The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal IJASI is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them.
• Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.
• We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, the IJASI publication and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Plagiarism

• All articles published by IJASI are committed to publishing only original material, i.e., material that has neither been published elsewhere, nor is under review elsewhere.
• Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will incur plagiarism penalty.
• The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
• Plagiarism takes many forms, from passing off another paper as the author own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others.
• Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Duplication

• An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication.
• Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. In general, an author should not submit for consideration in another journal a previously published paper.
• Publication of some kinds of articles (e.g. clinical guidelines, translations) in more than one journal is sometimes justifiable, provided certain conditions are met.
• The authors and editors of the journals concerned must agree to the secondary publication, which must reflect the same data and interpretation of the primary document.
• The primary reference must be cited in the secondary publication.

Publication decisions

• The editor of a peer-reviewed journal IJASI is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
• The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions.
• The editor 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 may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Confidentiality

• The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Contribution to editorial decisions

• Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
• Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication, and lies at the heart of the scientific method.
• Elsevier shares the view of many that all scholars who wish to contribute to publications have an obligation to do a fair share of reviewing.
  
  

Promptness

• Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.