- Duties of Reviewers
- Journal of irrigation and drainage structures engineering research reviewer shall avoid conflicts of interest and/or the appearance thereof. If a manuscript submitted for review presents a potential conflict of interest or if the reviewer has a personal bias, the reviewer shall return the manuscript promptly without review.
- If Journal of irrigation and drainage structures engineering research reviewer feels inadequately qualified or lacks of time to fairly judge the work, the reviewer should return the manuscript promptly to the Journal's editor.
- Journal of irrigation and drainage structures engineering research reviewer shall objectively judge the quality of a manuscript on its own merit and shall respect the intellectual independence of the author(s). Personal criticism is never acceptable.
- Unpublished information, arguments, or interpretations contained in a submitted manuscript are confidential and shall not be used in the research of a reviewer or otherwise disseminated except with the consent of the author and with appropriate attribution.
- If Journal of irrigation and drainage structures engineering research reviewer receives a manuscript for review authored or coauthored by a person with whom the reviewer has a personal or professional relationship, the existence of this relationship shall be promptly brought to the attention of the editor.
- Reviewing is essential to the publication process, hence all Journal of irrigation and drainage structures engineering research authors have an obligation to do their fair share of reviews.
- A reviewer shall treat a manuscript received for review as a confidential document and shall neither disclose nor discuss it with others, except as necessary to a person from whom specific advice may be sought; in that case, the identities of those consulted shall be disclosed to the editor.
- Journal of irrigation and drainage structures engineering research reviewers shall explain and support judgments adequately so that the editor and author(s) may understand the basis for their comments. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument has been previously reported shall be accompanied by the relevant citation.
- Journal of irrigation and drainage structures engineering research reviewers shall call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity between the manuscript under consideration and any published paper and any manuscript submitted concurrently to another journal.
- If a Journal of irrigation and drainage structures engineering research reviewer has convincing evidence that proves a manuscript contains plagiarized material or fabricated research data, the reviewer shall notify the editor.
- Duties of Authors
The primary duty of author(s) is to present a concise account of the research based on necessary sections, which are presented in Guide for Authors Section in Journal of irrigation and drainage structures engineering research website. In addition, other important issues are as follows:
- A submitted manuscript should contain detail and reference to public sources of information sufficient to permit the author's peers to repeat the work or otherwise verify its accuracy.
- All authors should complete conflict of interest statement and copyright transfer documents prior to publishing.
- All authors or the corresponding author should include a statement disclosing any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that may be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
- The submitted manuscript shall not contain plagiarized material or falsified research data.
- Fragmentation of research papers shall be avoided. A researcher who has done extensive work on a system or group of related systems shall organize publication so that each paper gives a complete account of a particular aspect of the general study.
- It is inappropriate for an author to either write or coauthor a Discussion of his or her own paper; except in the case of a rebuttal or Closure to criticism or Discussion offered by others.
- Manuscripts, which have been published as copyrighted material elsewhere, cannot be submitted. Consequently, manuscripts under review by Journal of irrigation and drainage structures engineering research reviewers should not be resubmitted to other copyrighted publications.
- Submitting a manuscript to more than one journal should be avoided.
- When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and to cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper in the form of an erratum.