To respect the intellectual property rights of others and support academic publishing standards, the Journal of Educational Sciences at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University adopts a zero-tolerance policy towards research related to research misconduct. Research misconduct includes plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, duplicate submission/multiple submissions, duplicate submission/multiple submissions, and and salami publication. According to the definition of publishing misconduct in a group of well-known research organizations, we have clarified the policies and criteria for research misconduct in the journal, as follows:
1) Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person's thoughts, ideas, data, figures, research methods, or words without giving appropriate credit, or the over-citation of another person's published work.
2) Fabrication: Fabrication is the practice of making up data or results without having performed relevant research.
3) Falsification: Falsification is the practice of changing data or results intentionally such that misleading conclusion is drawn.
4) Duplicate submission/multiple submissions: Duplicate submission/multiple submissions refers to practice of submitting the same manuscript or several manuscripts with minor differences (e.g., differences only in title, keywords, abstract, author order, author affiliations, or a small amount of text) to two or more journals at the same time, or submitting to another journal within an agreed or stipulated period.
5) Overlapping publication: Overlapping publication refers to the practice of publishing a paper overlaps substantially with one already published.
6) Salami publication: Salami publication refers to the practice of slicing data from a large study,could have been reported in a single paper, into different pieces and publishing them in two or more articles, all of which cover the same population, methods, and question.
After confirming that the research submitted to the journal is linked to research misconduct, the following actions will be taken:
1) Reject the research or withdraw the published research.
2) Not accepting the research submitted by the same research team within two years.
3) Notify the institution of the corresponding author and supporting(s) of this misconduct.
4) The researcher pays the costs of the examination and review process.