Code of Conduct
As described above, our journals abide to the COPE’s Code of Conduct.
Our all the journals follow the COPE Guidelines and Core Practices as
prescribed by COPE. Such core practices pertain to the following 10 contexts:
Malpractice Statement
The ISRDO believes that research must be conducted according to the full and appropriate ethical agenda, universally acceptable to the research community. Any issue associated to the publication ethics will be handled seriously at the Editorial Office of respective journal. The ISRDO and its journals reserve the right to reject the manuscript and may contact the ethics committee or the concerning committee of the author’s institutions for appropriate actions. If authors want to retract articles, they should inform the Editorial Office of respective journal with a retraction letter explaining the reason. Authors also reserve the right to appeal against the Editor's decision on the manuscript in writing. Our journals accept papers not for business or political gain but on intellectual and ethical standards only. The Editorial Office of all our journals will also strictly monitor for plagiarism and obvious fraudulent data prior to the processing of the manuscript for review process and, if plagiarism is detected at this stage or latter, the manuscript will be rejected and will not be reconsidered in any of our journals. Our editors will investigate any allegations of publication misconduct and may contact the authors' institutions or funders if necessary. If evidence of misconduct is found, appropriate action will be taken to correct or retract the publication. Authors are expected to comply with the best ethical publication practices when publishing.
