Publication Ethics

Journal of the Civil Engineering Forum (hence JCEF) is a journal aims to be a an authoritative source of information. We publish original research papers, review articles, technical notes and editorial note focused on disaster related topics in Civil Engineering and has never been published elsewhere in any language, nor is it under review for publication anywhere. This following statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the editor, the reviewer, and the publisher. This statement is based on COPE’s Publication Ethics.

Duties of Authors

  1. Reporting Standards: 
  2. Data Access and Retention: 
  3. Originality and Plagiarism: 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. Its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out.
  4. Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication: 
    An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication (except in the form of a conference abstract or as part of a published lecture or thesis for an academic qualification), and under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
  5. Acknowledgment of Sources: 
  6. Authorship of the Paper: 
  7. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: 
  8. Fundamental errors in published works: 
  9. Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects: 

Duties of Editors

  1. Fair Play: 
  2. Confidentiality: 
  3. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: 
  4. Publication Decisions
  5. Review of Manuscripts: 

Duties of Reviewers

  1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions:
  2. Promptness: 
  3. Standards of Objectivity: 
  4. Confidentiality: 
  5. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: 
  6. Acknowledgment of Sources: 

Allegations of Misconduct

Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation, or plagiarism in producing, performing, or reviewing research and writing an article by authors, or in reporting research results. In cases of suspected misconduct, the Editors and Editorial Board will include an investigation of the allegation by the Editors. A submitted manuscript that is found to contain such misconduct will be rejected. In cases where a published paper is found to contain such misconduct, a retraction can be published and will be linked to the original article.

Authorships and Contributorship

JCEF want a transparency around who contributed to the work and in what capacity. If there is a case of authorship issue related to misleading action of one of author, deceased author, duplicate submission and any other authorship dispute then the editor have a right to reject the manuscript to avoid the potential authors dispute in the future. In a case where the paper has been published a retraction have to be done. The exception can be given to the case of deceased author, the rest authors could clarify the conflict of interest statement to obtain a notarized statement. For purposes of transparency, the editor will add a statement on the disclaimer, including the date in relation participation in authorship. 

Complaints and Appeals

Journal of the Civil Engineering Forum have a clear procedure for handling complaints against the journal, Editorial Staff, Editorial Board or Publisher. The complaints will be clarified to the respected person with respect to the case of complaint. The scope of complaints include anything related to the journal business process, i.e. editorial process, found citation manipulation, unfair editor/reviewer, peer-review manipulation, etc. The complaint cases will be processed according to COPE guideline.

Conflict of Interest / Competing Interests

The conflict of interest or competing interests should be declared in the paper as Disclaimer. The section of Disclaimer contain a declaration that there is no conflict before publication or post publication.

Ethical Oversight

If the research work involves chemicals, human, animals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript in order to obey ethical conduct of research using animals and human subjects. If required, Authors must provide legal ethical clearance from the association or legal organization. If the research involves confidential data and of business/marketing practices, authors should clearly justify this matter whether the data or information will be hidden securely or not.

Intellectual Property

Journal of the Civil Engineering Forum provides a Copyright Transfer Form, to inform the author about the right of repoducibility after the paper is being published. The form can be downloaded on the website and send it through supplementaty files or Journal’s email.

Journal Management

In a case of an author want to withdraw his/her paper before publication, editor have to approve the author’s intention as long as author provide clear reason of the paper withdrawal. The reason should be writen email to Editor-in-Chief.

In case of an author ask the retraction after the paper is published, editor have right to request a reason and if possible author can provide a proof to support his/her argument. The withdrawal can be conducted as long as the clarification/reason given by author can be accepted by the Editor.

Post-publication Discussions and Corrections

In case there is an author request for correcting the affiliation of an author after publication, a formal erratum, linked directly to the online article, should be done. The correction should state the facts, that the affiliation was not included in the original paper, but it was the affiliation at the time and remains the affiliation now. Journal of the Civil Engineering Forum strongly suggests author to include their ORCID IDs with this way affiliations can be updated.