PUBLICATION ETHICS

Publication Ethics

The editorial policy of the GreenTech journal is guided by the traditional ethical principles of scientific periodicals, as outlined in the Guide to the Principles of Publication Ethics for Journal Editors by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics, Promoting Integrity in Research and Publication). These principles include the following requirements:

For Authors:

  • Ensure compliance with the submission requirements.
  • Take full responsibility for the quality, originality, and completeness of the published data, enabling replication of the experiment.
  • Responsible for accurate citation and proper acknowledgment of primary sources of information and data.
  • Ensure that all individuals who contributed to the work as co-authors are listed, and those who did not contribute are not.
  • The corresponding author is responsible for communication with all co-authors and ensuring they are informed about the status of the contribution.
  • Authors guarantee that the work is original and does not contain content that is illegal or infringes on anyone’s proprietary or copyright rights.
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI technologies cannot be listed as authors or cited as authors. Authors using AI technologies (e.g., ChatGPT) must acknowledge this in the manuscript.
  • All authors confirm that this work has not been submitted for publication elsewhere and agree that, if accepted by this journal, it will not be submitted elsewhere.
  • All authors confirm that all commercial interests, patent-licensing relations, etc., that may create a financial conflict of interest related to the submitted article have been disclosed.
  • Authors have the non-exclusive right to do anything they wish with their work, but they must reference the original publication.
  • By submitting their manuscripts, authors agree that the articles will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

For Reviewers:

  • Each manuscript received for review is considered a confidential document. The reviewer may not use any content from the submitted manuscript elsewhere. The reviewer may only share the manuscript with third parties with the permission of the editor-in-chief.
  • The reviewer must provide the editorial board with an objective evaluation of the work and, if necessary, suggest ways to improve the submitted work.
  • The reviewer is obligated to refuse to review the manuscript and notify the editorial board if they are not an expert on the manuscript's topic.

For Editors:

The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board Members are committed to:

  • paying special attention to the quality of manuscripts, always providing a reasoned decision regarding agreement (or disagreement) with the reviewers' decisions on manuscripts, and making decisions on the content of the journal's issues;
  • working to expand the geographical diversity of authors and inviting experts from different organizations and countries for publication;
  • the editor should evaluate manuscripts based on their intellectual content, regardless of the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic background, citizenship, or political views of the authors;
  • not considering manuscripts if there is an interest arising from competitive, collaborative, or other interactions and relationships with the authors and organizations associated with the manuscript.

Editor-in-Chief:

  • appoints reviewers (scholars or experts in the relevant field) for each manuscript that has passed the initial screening for technical requirements;
  • determines the content of the current issue, makes the final decision regarding the publication of the submitted manuscript based on reviewer feedback and discussion with the editorial board.

Editorial Board:

The editorial board works directly with manuscript authors and does not collaborate with agencies that provide services to authors for publishing their research results.

The editorial board is obligated to make decisions promptly when unethical behavior by authors, editors, or reviewers is identified. Unethical behavior by authors includes falsification of authorship, publication of pseudoscientific materials, falsification and fabrication of data, manipulation of citations, unauthorized borrowing (plagiarism), and simultaneous submission of the manuscript to other journals.

In the case of unethical behavior by the author(s) discovered during the manuscript review or pre-publication preparation process, the editorial board has the right to remove the manuscript from further consideration and terminate cooperation with the author. If unethical behavior is identified after the manuscript has been published (such as parallel publication, copyright violations, plagiarism, etc.), the editorial board has the right to withdraw the manuscript from the journal's website, archive, and scientific indexing databases, and inform other journals (where the manuscript was published during the same period) about the unethical behavior of the author(s). The editorial board is committed to not making unjustified decisions to retract a publication (or issue a correction) unless significant issues related to its publication (unethical behavior, errors, etc.) are discovered.

Unethical behavior by reviewers and editors of the journal includes sending manuscripts or parts of manuscripts to other journals without the author's consent, violating copyright and the principle of confidentiality in editorial processes, supporting or hindering manuscripts due to competitive or collective interests, or other interactions and relationships with authors and organizations associated with the manuscript.

In case of complaints about reviewed manuscripts or published content, the editorial board is committed to responding appropriately: initially, the author of the manuscript will be asked for clarification. An investigation will only be conducted if the author's response is unsatisfactory.

Possible situations of unethical behavior by authors, editors, and reviewers not mentioned above will be resolved based on the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The editorial board provides an opportunity for board members and reviewers to publish manuscripts in the journal without using their privileges, provided the manuscripts have undergone similarity checks and strict reviews by external reviewers unrelated to these authors.

In case of errors (typos in formulas, technical issues with indicators) found in published manuscripts, information about corrections may be published in subsequent issues.

Conflict of Interest

A conflict of interest is a situation in which authors, reviewers, or editorial board members have implicit interests that may influence their judgment regarding the manuscripts under consideration. A conflict of interest arises when there are financial, personal, or professional conditions that could affect the scientific judgment of the reviewer or editorial board members, and, as a result, influence the editorial board's decision regarding the publication of a manuscript.

The managing editor of the journal must require all participants in the manuscript publication process to disclose any conflicts of interest.

The managing editor, members of the editorial board, and reviewers must disclose any potential conflicts of interest that may in any way influence the editorial board's decision. Editorial board members must recuse themselves from reviewing a manuscript if they are in any competitive relationship related to the research results of the manuscript's author(s), or if there is any other conflict of interest.

When submitting a manuscript for review to the journal, the author(s) declare that all sources of funding for the research are stated in the manuscript's content; they also disclose any commercial, financial, personal, or professional factors that may create a conflict of interest concerning the submitted manuscript. The author(s) may also suggest scientists whom they believe may not be able to objectively assess their manuscript.

A reviewer should not consider manuscripts that may create a conflict of interest arising from competition, collaboration, or other relationships with any of the authors involved with the manuscript.

If a conflict of interest with the manuscript's content arises, the managing editor must notify the chief editor, who will then delegate the process to another editor/reviewer.

The presence of a conflict of interest among participants in the review process does not imply that the manuscript will be rejected.

All parties involved should, as much as possible, avoid any conflict of interest at all stages of publication. If a conflict of interest arises, the person who identifies the conflict must immediately notify the editorial board. The same applies to any other violations of publication principles, standards, and scientific ethics.

Instructions for retraction or correction of content, publication of corrections, apologies, and retractions

The journal editors are responsible for all published manuscripts and are committed to ensuring their high quality and accuracy. Editors are always ready to publish corrections, clarifications, apologies, and retractions concerning manuscripts published in the journal, if necessary.

The journal will not leave complaints regarding reviewed manuscripts unanswered. In the event of a conflict situation, the editorial board will take all necessary measures to restore violated rights. The journal editors should consider the possibility of retracting a publication. If errors are found in the published content that do not invalidate the work but indicate minor inaccuracies in part of the publication, errors in the list of authors or sponsors, or a small part of the manuscript is found to be plagiarized, or it is determined that the author published the same manuscript later in another journal, corrections will be considered. Corrections will be printed at the end of the journal. The comment on the manuscript will contain a reference to the original phrase from the manuscript and provide a comment on it. The electronic version of the manuscript will be corrected with the date of correction and a link to the printed list of errors. The editorial board does not guarantee content correction in indexed databases and repositories but will make every effort to do so.

Appeals for rejection

Authors have the right to appeal editorial decisions. Appeals should be sent to the editor via email at GreenTech@shokan.edu.kz with an appeal letter containing a detailed explanation along with brief arguments supporting the request. The appeals will then be forwarded to a member of the editorial board for review. If successful, the appeal may lead to the reopening of the review process, and the manuscript may eventually be published after any changes deemed necessary by the editorial board. However, if the appeal is rejected, the original decision to reject will stand.

Checklist for submission preparation

As part of the submission process, authors must ensure that their materials meet all of the following points. Materials may be returned to authors who do not comply with these guidelines.

  • The submitted article has not been previously published and is not under consideration by another journal (or a relevant explanation has been provided in the editor's comments).
  • The file for submission should be in Microsoft Word or RTF document format.
  • If possible, URLs of references have been provided.
  • The text is typed with single spacing, italics are used instead of underlining (except for URLs), and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the text at the appropriate locations, not at the end.
  • The text complies with the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.