Principles of Transparency
Peer-review process
All submitted articles are evaluated at the submission to meet the structural and subject principles of ECOPERSIA. The matched articles will go under a double-blinded peer-review process by at least 3 reviewers (experts in the field who are not part of the journal’s editorial staff) who are selected by the Editorial Board members according to their field specialties. The Editorial Board members have the final responsibility to select the articles.
Governing body
ECOPERSIA is under the scientific control of Editorial Board whose members are recognized experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. Some executive roles of the Editorial Board members are delegated to the Editor-in-Chief who is well-known in the journal’s scope.
Editorial team
ECOPERSIA is under the scientific supervision of the Editorial Team whose members are all experts with a high number of publications in their field.
Author fees/Access
There are No Fees or Charges at all for submission, reviewing, and publishing processes in ECOPERSIA.
ECOPERSIA follows the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing.
Copyright
The content of ECOPERSIA is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License. To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, we are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants you such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.
Process for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct
Publisher and editors of ECOPERSIA are reasonable to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. In doing so, ECOPERSIA follows COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.
Ownership and management
ECOPERSIA is owned by Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, and is managed and published by Afarand Scholarly Publishing Institute.
Conflicts of interests
All ECOPERSIA Editorial Board members and the Editor-in-Chief submitted articles are gone under the same reviewing process as the other authors are gone. In the cases that a reviewer suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a submitted manuscript or a reader suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article (all authors are filling the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest at the submission time) ECOPERSIA will follow COPE’s guidelines.
Revenue sources/Advertising/Direct marketing
ECOPERSIA is financially supported completely by Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, and has no other sources for earning funds. ECOPERSIA accepts No advertisements on the site or even as a report article.
Publishing schedule/Archiving
ECOPERSIA is published 4 issues per year. All the content from the beginning to the end will be available for ever on the ECOPERSIA exclusive website. Also, ECOPERSIA is included at DOAJ and has the plan to enter to Scopus and ISI Web of Sciences databases.
All submitted articles are evaluated at the submission to meet the structural and subject principles of ECOPERSIA. The matched articles will go under a double-blinded peer-review process by at least 3 reviewers (experts in the field who are not part of the journal’s editorial staff) who are selected by the Editorial Board members according to their field specialties. The Editorial Board members have the final responsibility to select the articles.
Governing body
ECOPERSIA is under the scientific control of Editorial Board whose members are recognized experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. Some executive roles of the Editorial Board members are delegated to the Editor-in-Chief who is well-known in the journal’s scope.
Editorial team
ECOPERSIA is under the scientific supervision of the Editorial Team whose members are all experts with a high number of publications in their field.
Author fees/Access
There are No Fees or Charges at all for submission, reviewing, and publishing processes in ECOPERSIA.
ECOPERSIA follows the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing.
Copyright
The content of ECOPERSIA is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License. To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, we are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants you such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.
Process for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct
Publisher and editors of ECOPERSIA are reasonable to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. In doing so, ECOPERSIA follows COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.
Ownership and management
ECOPERSIA is owned by Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, and is managed and published by Afarand Scholarly Publishing Institute.
Conflicts of interests
All ECOPERSIA Editorial Board members and the Editor-in-Chief submitted articles are gone under the same reviewing process as the other authors are gone. In the cases that a reviewer suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a submitted manuscript or a reader suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article (all authors are filling the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest at the submission time) ECOPERSIA will follow COPE’s guidelines.
Revenue sources/Advertising/Direct marketing
ECOPERSIA is financially supported completely by Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, and has no other sources for earning funds. ECOPERSIA accepts No advertisements on the site or even as a report article.
Publishing schedule/Archiving
ECOPERSIA is published 4 issues per year. All the content from the beginning to the end will be available for ever on the ECOPERSIA exclusive website. Also, ECOPERSIA is included at DOAJ and has the plan to enter to Scopus and ISI Web of Sciences databases.