Publication Ethics

  • Southern Cross Academic Press  follows all the best practices defined by the COPE (Committee Of Publication Ethics) for editors.
  • Our journal always ready to harvest views and suggestion of authors and editorial board members to improve the journal quality.
  • To maintain the quality, we follow the double-blind peer reviewing methods to ensuring the quality and fair policy of publication.
  • We always assign the reviewing process to our suitable qualified editorial board members.
  • Our team follows different processes, which encourages accuracy and clarity of research paper and including the technical editing if required.

Misconduct Handling

A misconduct contains the following issues in a research paper:

  • Redundant Publication in submitted/published manuscript
  • Plagiarism in submitted/published manuscript
  • Fabricated data in submitted/published manuscript

Changes in Authorship

The authorship changes are concerned in the following condition:-

  1. Request to add a corresponding author before publication of the manuscript.
  2. Request to remove a corresponding author before publication of the manuscript.
  3. Request to add a corresponding author after the publication of the manuscript.
  4. Request to remove a corresponding author after the publication of the manuscript.

To change the authorship of an article we process the following steps:-

  • Authors are required to provide a valid and justified reason(s) for any proposed change in the authorship of a manuscript.
  • The journal will seek written confirmation from all listed authors regarding their agreement with the requested change in authorship details. If unanimous consent is obtained, the authorship information will be revised accordingly.
  • In the absence of agreement from all authors, the manuscript will be temporarily suspended until full consensus on the authorship change is reached.
  • If the article has already been published and one or more authors do not agree to the proposed change in authorship, the matter will be referred to the concerned author’s institution for resolution, should the affected or excluded author(s) wish to pursue the issue.