Publication Ethics

World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues (WJET) requires all authors to adhere to the ethical standards as prescribed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which take privacy issues seriously and is committed to protecting your personal information.

WJET requires all authors to adhere to the ethical standards as prescribed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which take privacy issues seriously and is committed to protecting your personal information.

Authorship

The inclusion of a person who does not meet the authorship requirement or the exclusion of a person who meets the requirement is a violation of this publication's ethics.

Originality

In order to avoid ethical violations, all journals published by BD-Center are committed to only publishing original material that was not published before, except in the form of an abstract or proceedings-type publication (including electronic preprints and discussion papers), or that is considered for publication elsewhere. Authors have to agree on that in a consent form.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism means the use of any material and ideas developed or created by another person without acknowledging the original source. To avoid any form of plagiarism, each manuscript newly submitted to the journal will be checked regarding plagiarism using iThenticate. The decision on whether a manuscript should be rejected because of fraud or should proceed to the peer-review process rests with the handling editor. The similarity reports are also made available to referees.

Duplicate Manuscript

"Duplicate publication is a publication of a paper that overlaps substantially with one already published, without clear, visible reference to the previous publication". WJET strictly refuses to publish duplicate papers.

Citation Manipulation

Only relevant citations should be used in manuscripts. The addition of references that are not relevant to the work is strongly discouraged. Irrelevant self-citation to increase one's citation is unethical. Unnecessary citation of articles for the sole purpose of increasing the citation of the article is unethical. Unnecessary citation of articles from a particular journal to increase the journal's citation is unethical.

Ethical Approval

If any, it is including your ethical approval, documenting the full name of the approving ethical committee. In addition, Authors must comment explicitly on how their work was ethical.

Ethical Statement

A statement about the ethical issues relevant to the research and approvals under which the data was collected and reported has been included in the Methods section. It is expected that there will be a statement for all articles that include data collected from or about humans. This requirement may not be relevant for some articles such as literature reviews.