Academic Ethics Policy & Academic Misconduct Declaration
Journal of Jilin Jianzhu University adheres to the principle of transparency in academic publishing, follows internationally recognized publication ethics standards, and has formulated its own code of publication ethics and statement on misconduct. These are based on the guidelines issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), tailored to the journal's specific circumstances. All authors, editors, and reviewers are required to strictly comply with the following requirements
Author Ethics Code
1. Submissions must be original work that has never been openly published and contains no confidentiality breaches. Authors shall bear full responsibility for any infringement or breach of confidentiality.
2. Strictly prohibit academic misconduct including plagiarism, fabrication, duplicate submission, or any other unethical practices. Authors shall bear full responsibility for such violations.
3. Properly cite sources with complete references when using others' viewpoints or achievements.
4. All listed authors must meet the journal's authorship criteria; no eligible contributor shall be omitted. Authorship disputes are forbidden. All co-authors must approve the submission and accept the journal's review process.
5. Authorship order requires unanimous approval from all co-authors. Changes to authorship after submission are generally inadmissible. Authenticity and accuracy of authorship must be ensured.
6. Every co-author is academically and ethically accountable for the manuscript's content. Unauthorized addition of authors is prohibited.
7. Clearly declare research funding sources; providing irrelevant or false funding information is forbidden.
8. Recommending fraudulent reviewers or those with conflicts of interest is prohibited. Authors must not interfere with colleague review.
9. Throughout the submission-to-publication process, authors must timely revise manuscripts per reviewers' and editorial office's feedback.
Reviewer Ethics Code
1. Upholding academic integrity and respecting academic freedom, provide objective, impartial, and detailed evaluations in a timely manner. Refrain from making biased comments.
2. Decline review invitations where conflicts of interest or other factors impede impartial judgment.
3. If unable to complete the review on schedule, promptly notify the editorial office or recommend alternative reviewers. Never delegate reviews to unauthorized individuals.
4. Should any suspected academic misconduct be identified in the manuscript, reviewers must immediately notify the editorial office when submitting their review report to enable formal investigation.
5. Maintain strict confidentiality of manuscripts and review content. Prohibited actions including disclosing manuscript information or review comments, and Utilizing or publishing data, concepts, or conclusions from unreleased manuscripts.
Editorial Ethics Code
1. Editors shall strictly implement national laws and regulations, uphold academic publishing ethics, and safeguard research integrity. All submissions must be processed fairly, impartially, and promptly with respect for colleague review feedback to ensure high-quality publication.
2. Confidentiality obligations extend to all submission/review materials. Author information and identities of blind reviewers/editorial staff must be protected.
3. After preliminary originality assessment, manuscripts undergo double-blind colleague review by more than 2 experts. Final decisions (acceptance/revision/rejection) are based on scientific rigor, innovation, and readability by reviewer and editorial board feedback.
4. Editors must avoid assigning reviewers with conflicts of interest concerning authors and shall respect authors' justified requests for reviewer exclusion.
5. Respect authors' work and reviewers' opinions. Maintain complete/authentic review records and confidentiality at all stages. Editorial staff may only disclose manuscript details to authors, reviewers, or editorial board members as necessary.
6. Editors are obliged to promptly address authors' objections to review comments and facilitate consensus through effective communication.
7. Journal editors are obligated to investigate alleged academic misconduct and initiate formal communications. When ethical violations are identified in published papers, editors must implement appropriate corrective measures, including—where necessary—timely public issuance of corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions.
8. Editors shall enforce strict confidentiality protocols: Protecting authors' manuscript information and Safeguarding anonymity of reviewers and editorial staff during peer review
9. Editors must not interfere with colleague review processes due to improper inducements, thereby ensuring the independence and objectivity of reviewers' evaluations.
10. Prevent academic misconduct throughout submission-to-publication workflows. Maintain a blacklist for offending authors/reviewers and issue integrity warnings as appropriate.
11. Post-publication errors reported by authors/readers require timely corrections upon verification. Retraction statements must be issued for unreliable results, duplicate submissions, plagiarism, or ethics violations.
Publishing Ethics Guidelines
1. This journal exclusively publishes original research findings.
2. For Accepted manuscripts subsequently found to contain academic misconduct, the journal reserves the right to withdraw acceptance and notify the author's institution and relevant journals; for published articles confirmed with academic misconduct, the journal will retract them and issue formal retraction statements.
3. Upon acceptance, authors exclusively transfer all exploitable copyrights of the entire work and its components (including but not limited to figures, tables, abstracts, and ex-tractable content) to the publisher, which includes but not limited to and reproduction, distribution, and public communication rights, Translation, adaptation, compilation rights, and Broadcasting and exhibition rights.
4. Accepted manuscripts will be openly published. Rejected manuscripts are archived under strict confidentiality protocols, with no disclosure of unpublished research content.