Publishing Ethics

Biogeosystem Technique adheres to strict publication ethics, requiring disclosure of conflicts of interest, original research, and proper data citation. Studies must comply with institutional, national, and international guidelines regarding securing approval for human/animal studies, organism sampling, mechanical systems configuration, and biological, chemical, physical, environmental, and mechanic systems modelling. Sufficient detail must be provided to allow Data and Methods replication. Violations of copyright infringement, unethical conduct may lead to rejected manuscripts.

Originality&Integrity

Manuscripts must be original and not under consideration elsewhere. The work described has not been published previously except in the form of a preprint, an abstract, a published lecture, academic thesis or registered report. The article's publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out.

Data Accuracy

Findings, including remote sensing or survey data, must be represented accurately.

Conflicts of interests

Authors should not suggest reviewers who have a potential conflict of interest, such as a close collaborator or colleague. The recommended reviewers should not be affiliated with the same institution as any of the authors listed in the manuscript. If possible, please provide the institutional email addresses of the recommended reviewers. Reviewers must treat manuscripts as confidential documents and should conduct Reviews objectively.

Please note that a statement regarding conflicts of interest is mandatory for all submitted manuscripts. If there are no conflicts, please state that there are no potential conflicts to declare in the final section before the reference section, under the heading “Conflicts of interest”.

Permissions

Authors must obtain permission to use any already published information.

Retractions

The retraction of a paper by its authors or the journal editor, following the advice of experts in the field, has been a rare occurrence in the academic world. Papers and papers-in-press may be withdrawn to correct errors that are deemed too significant by the editors to publish a correction, or due to violations of the Biogeosystem Technique’s journal's policies, such as multiple submissions, false claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, data fabrication, image manipulation, and similar issues.

Corrections

Authors can request corrections, and readers can provide feedback on published articles. These corrections and comments should be communicated to the journal’s secretary. The final decision regarding these corrections and comments will be made by the editors, who will assess the impact of the changes on the accuracy of scientific statements, funding details, or metadata, such as an author’s name. Expert opinions may be sought. Please note that corrections and comments should only address issues that were known at the time of publication. They should not include updates to information that changes after publication, such as author contact details or the publication of references.

Publishing malpractices

Ethical standards for publication exist to ensure high-quality scientific publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that people receive credit for their ideas. It is important to avoid:

Data fabrication and falsification:

Data fabrication means that the researcher did not actually perform the study but instead made up data. Data falsification means that the researcher did the experiment, but then changed some of the data. Both of these practices make people distrust scientists. If the public is mistrustful of science, then it will be less willing to provide funding support.

Plagiarism:

Taking the ideas and work of others without giving them credit is unfair and dishonest. Copying even from one sentence from someone else’s manuscript, or even one of your own that has previously been published, without proper citation is considered plagiarism – use your own words instead.

Multiple submissions:

It is unethical to submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time. Doing this wastes the time of editors and peer reviewers, and can damage the reputation of journals if published in more than one.

Redundant publications (or ‘salami’ publications):

This means publishing many very similar manuscripts based on the same experiment. It can make readers less likely to pay attention to your manuscripts.

Improper author contribution or attribution:

All of the listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and have approved all its claims. Do not forget to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution, including students and laboratory technicians.

Authors of the journal must not use the words, figures, or ideas of others without attribution. All sources must be cited at the point they are used, and reuse of wording must be limited and be attributed or quoted in the text.

Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will be rejected and the authors may incur sanctions. Any published articles may need to be corrected or retracted.

Ethical standards for publication exist to ensure high-quality scientific publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that people receive credit for their ideas. It is important to avoid:

Data fabrication and falsification

Plagiarism

Multiple submissions

Redundant publications (or ‘salami’ publications)

This means publishing many very similar manuscripts based on the same experiment. It can make readers less likely to pay attention to your manuscripts.

Improper author contribution or attribution

The use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in writing for Cherkas Global University Press

This policy aims to provide greater transparency and guidance to authors, readers, reviewers, editors, and contributors of Biogeosystem Technique in relation to generative AI and AI-assisted technologies.

Authors preparing a manuscript for Elsevier can use AI Tools to support them.

These tools must never be used as a substitute for human critical thinking, expertise and evaluation. AI Tools should always be applied with human oversight and control.

Authors should disclose the use of AI Tools for manuscript preparation in a separate AI declaration statement upon submission.

Cherkas Global University Press does not permit the use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools to create or alter images in submitted manuscripts. This may only include enhancing a specific feature within an image or figure.

The generative AI or AI-assisted tools can be used as a part of the research design or research methods. This use must be described in the methods section.