Publication Ethics Statement
Scientific research integrity is the cornerstone of scientific and technological innovation. Maintaining and practicing scientific research integrity at all steps is of utmost importance for all participants in academic research, paper writing, and publishing. As an important platform for displaying scientific research achievement, Journal of Spatio-temporal Information will uphold and promote research integrity while adhering to high standards of publication ethics and morality. To this end, the editorial office outlined the publication ethics principles and guidelines that are crucial to this journal for the reference of contributors.
1. Author's Responsibilities
The author is obliged to indicate that the paper is original research work (except for review) and contains no fabricated, deceptive or plagiarized content. The paper does not involve state secrets or any issues related to intellectual property infringement. Author must guarantees that the paper has not been submitted to other journals or media in any language and has not been published elsewhere. Author must guarantees that the paper not submit the manuscript to other journals before receiving a rejection notice from the editorial office. All cited sources must be clearly indicated, and references must be listed in the reference section. All institutions and individuals that provided scientific funding or consultation for the paper must be listed. Authors shall respect the revision suggestions of the reviewers and editors. Authors must agree that after the submitted manuscript is published, the exclusive copyright license and exclusive agency rights of the paper will be granted to the editorial office of Journal of Spatio-temporal Information.
Authors must avoid the following academic misconduct:
1) Multiple submissions
(1) The term "multiple submissions" in this statement mainly refers to multiple articles, which may have some differences in the expression or description of the text, but the theories or methods involved, the main experimental data and charts, or the core content of the articles are the same.
The manuscripts referred to include those published in formally published conference proceedings and journals in other languages. However, it does not include manuscripts that have been published in a journal as briefs or preliminary reports, but the full text of further research is submitted to another journal; if the authors of the above manuscripts want to submit, they should explain to the relevant editorial department; if necessary, they should also obtain relevant written materials from the journal that first published the manuscript to agree to re-publish.
(2) Once a manuscript has been received from the editorial office (manuscript receipt), it means that the manuscript is being processed. If the author wishes to submit the manuscript to another journal, you should contact the editorial department in advance and obtain consent.
(3) If the editorial office suspects that a manuscript has been submitted to multiple journals, it will carefully collect relevant information and verify it before notifying the author. Before making a decision, the author will be asked to provide an explanation. If there is a disagreement between the editorial office and the author, the matter will be referred to the higher-level competent authority or relevant authoritative institution for final arbitration.
(4) Once it is confirmed that a manuscript has been submitted to multiple journals, the author's unit, name and notice of the withdrawal of the paper will be published in the latest issue of the journal; the author's unit and other scientific journals in the relevant field will also be notified of the incident.
2) Plagiarism
Plagiarism refers to the unauthorized use of another person's work without the original author's consent, citation or acknowledgement. Forms of plagiarism include direct reproduction or rewriting of others' works, which may involve data, text, sentences, paragraphs, ideas and concepts. Our journal does not allow any plagiarism.
3) Co-authorship
Indicating authorship is to ensure that those who have contributed to the research are recognized and responsible for the research. Authors should be limited to those who have made significant contributions to the conception, design, execution or interpretation of the reported research, and those who have made significant contributions must be listed as co-authors. Submitting authors must obtain authorization and consent from co-authors before submitting.
4) Research fraud
Research fraud refers to data or conclusions that are not obtained from experiments or research, but are fabricated or tampered with by the author. Under no circumstances should researchers commit fraud.
2. Responsibilities of reviewers
(1) Ensure scientific and accurate in reviewing of manuscripts and make objective and fair evaluations. Utilize professional knowledge and expertise to assess the innovation, scientificity, and practicality of the manuscripts; evaluate the appropriateness of research methods, whether the scientific research design is reasonable, whether the results and conclusions are accurate, whether there are leaks, etc., to help the editorial department judge the selection of manuscripts; make detailed revision suggestions for problems in the article to help the author improve the quality of the paper.
(2) Respect the author's research results and avoid manuscripts with conflicts of interest. Only evaluate the academic nature of the manuscripts reviewed, and do not make evaluations or personal attacks on individuals. The selection of manuscripts is not affected by the race, gender, religion, beliefs, status, qualifications and authority of the contributors, and the author must clearly explain his or her own views with sufficient arguments and facts.
(3) Timely complete and submit review comments on manuscripts to the editorial office within the specified timeframe. If it cannot be completed on time, the editorial office should be informed in time so that the manuscript can be sent to other reviewers in time.
(4) Reviewers should point out relevant published works related to the manuscript that have not been cited.
(5) The reviewed manuscripts are strictly kept confidential and should not be circulated or discussed with others. The data, opinions, conclusions, etc. of the reviewed manuscripts should not be used or published.
(6) All review opinions and information must be kept confidential and must not be used for personal purposes.
3. Editor's Responsibilities
(1) Editors shall strictly implement relevant national laws and regulations, uphold academic publishing ethics and standards, and maintain scientific research integrity. All manuscripts shall be processed promptly and fairly to ensure that the edited manuscripts are published on time with high quality.
(2) Editors must ensure that each manuscript initially passes the originality assessment, which can be performed using appropriate software. After this detection, the manuscript will be forwarded to two reviewers for double-blind peer review, who will provide specific recommendations on the acceptance, rejection or revision of the manuscript.
(3) Editors must ensure that each manuscript accepted by the journal is reviewed for intellectual content, regardless of the author's gender, race, religion and nationality.
(4) Respect the author's research results and the opinions of the reviewers. Maintain the authenticity of the review records and keep confidential the information of each stage of the review and revision. Editors and editorial staff shall not disclose any information about the submitted paper to others except for providing the required information to the corresponding author, reviewers and editorial board members as appropriate.
(5) Select manuscripts impartially. Acceptance or rejection of articles shall be based solely on the originality, importance, clarity, and whether it aligns with the journal's objectives and scope.
(6) Encourage academic debate and have the obligation to respond to authors' different views on reviewers' opinions.
(7) Editors have the obligation to investigate and communicate regarding academic misconduct. Once there is an academic ethics complaint regarding the submission of a paper or publication, the editor must take effective countermeasures. If necessary, corrections, clarifications, retractions or apologies should be promptly published. Editors have the obligation to hold authors and reviewers accountable for their improper behavior.
(8) Editors should protect the information of authors' submissions; protect the identity information of reviewers and other relevant personnel in the editorial office staff during the blind review process.
4. Retraction and Correction
(1) Editors should consider retracting a paper in the following circumstances: there is clear evidence that the findings are unreliable due to misconduct (e.g., data fabrication) or honest error (e.g., misjudgment or experimental error); research results have been previously published elsewhere without appropriate cross-references, permission, or justification (i.e., duplicate publication); the work constitutes plagiarism; or the research is reported of unethical research.
(2) Retraction notices should link to the retraction whenever possible (i.e., all electronic versions); clearly identify the retracted article (e.g., include the title and authors in the retraction title); and be published in a timely manner to minimize the harmful impact of misleading publications.
(3) Editors should consider issuing corrections in the following circumstances: a small number of reliable publications turn out to be misleading (especially due to honest error); the list of authors/contributors is incorrect (i.e., competent authors are omitted or authors who do not meet the copyright requirements are included).