Publication Ethics:
Advances in the Theory of Nonlinear Analysis and its Applications (ATNAA) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing research papers related to nonlinear analysis and its application to any other scientific research areas. The authors who want to publish their research manuscripts should get their consent to follow the ethical policies in the course of submitting for publication.
Authorship of the paper:
Authorship should be equipped with those who have contributed to their research manuscript in the sense of mathematical aspects
such as mathmatical conceptions, expansion of mathematical logic, design of numerical tables, graphical figures and interpretation of the reported study. Those who have no relation to mathematical activities of the published research papers should not have authorship and should not appear in the list where the main author and co-authors are listed. The corresponding author should get all the other authors’ consent for submitting for publication to ATNAA. Transparency about the contributions of authors to their published papers is encouraged
Advances in the Theory of Nonlinear Analysis and its Applications (ATNAA) is a peer-reviewed journal. The published article is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. It is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, and the publisher. Our ethics statements are based on Elsevier recommendations and COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Duties of authors
The authors having published their research papers in ATNAA are supposed to be responsible for their mathematical validity. For example, in case that any mathematical questions to the resarch papers should be replied to with comments being able to prove their correctness. If some matehmatical errors have been found, Dergipark can require the authors to take up one of academic activities, one of which is withdrawing their papers and the other of which is publishing errata. Anything troublesome that is incidental to the mathematical errors found by some other third party is supposed to attribute to the authors. Dergipark is supposed to be able to have the right to enforce these activities upon the authors.
Reporting standards
The authors should supply mathematically accurate proofs for the original theorems or the original formulae as well as their objective discussion, because ATNAA is a nonlinear analysis-oriented journal. This means that neither research work to which mathematical theorems are simply applied nor simple experimental documents without mathematically original logic can be accepted for publication. All the data underlying the results obtained by the authors should be represented accurately and followed by explanatory notes. Moreover, sufficient referenes enabling other researchers to replicate the original authors’ research works should be included. Needles to say, neither intentional data falsification nor previously published data concealment is strictly allowed.
Data access and retention
The authors are obliged to provide the raw data such as numerical tables, raw graphical images in the course of reviewing procedure, whenever a referee who is in charge of the authors’ paper asks the editorial board. The editorial board for ATNAA is supposed to have the right to cancel the reviewing procedure if the authors does not comply with the editors’ request without any reason. So the authors should ratain the raw data for a appropriate period, for example several years, after their paper has been published.
Originality
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. What is most important is any researchers other than the authors can discriminate the authors’ originality from the technical results to which the authors refer.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined as malicious activities such as plagiarizing some parts of another person’s preceding paper, as the authors’ original paper,
without the authors’ referring to it, and it constitutes unethical publishing behavior. Since plagiarism takes various kinds of forms, such as passing off some
part of another person’s paper as if it were the author’s original one and paraphrasing substantial parts of another person’s sentences. So the authors should
be careful so as not to be accused of plagiarisum in the course of preparing their manuscript. The editorial board for ATNAA is supposed to have the right to investigate whether a published paper can be regarded as plagiarism, regardless of whether or not the authors agree with the editorial board’s investigation.
Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication
Since multiple, redundant or concurrent publication is unethical publishing and unacceptable behavior, the authors are strictly prohibited from publishing manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal. If Dergipark has found almost the same research paper to be published in multiple journals, then the editorial board for ATNAA is supposed to have the right to withdraw the published paper from a series of ATNAA. The editorial board for ATNAA requests the authors not to submit their manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously.
Malpractice Statement:
According to the malpractice prevention policy, Dergipark has the right to withdraw the research papers which have been related to malpractice activities regardless of whether the authors agree or not.
Acknowledgement of sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should correctly and appropriately cite publications that have played influential roles in determining the academic results stated in the authors’ paper. The information which has been obtained in private ways, such as oral conversation or mail-based correspondence with third parties, must be neither used nor reported without explicit permission issued by the third party in a document style. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit permission issued by the publishers who are involved in these services.
Authorship of the paper
Authorship should be equipped with those who have contributed to their research manuscript in the sense of mathematical aspects such as mathematical conceptions, expansion of mathematical logic, design of numerical tables, graphical figures, and interpretation of the reported study. Those who have no relation to the mathematical activities of the published research papers should not have authorship and should not appear in the list where the main author and co-authors are listed. The corresponding author should get all the other authors’ consent for submission for publication to ATNAA. Transparency about the contributions of authors to their published papers is encouraged.
Hazards and human or animal subjects
If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript. If the work involves the use of animal or human subjects, the author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committee(s) has approved them. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed. Examples of potential conflicts of interest which should be disclosed include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest stage possible.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or the publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original paper.
Duties of editors
The authors having published their research papers in ATNAA, are supposed to be responsible for their mathematical validity. For exam-
ple, in case that any mathematical questions to the resarch papers should be replied with comments being able to prove their correctness. If some matehmatical errors have been found, Dergipark can require the authors to take up one of academic activities, one of which is withdrawing their papers and the other of which is publishing errata. Anything troublesome that is incidental to the mathematical errors found by some other third party is supposed to attribute to the authors. Dergipark is supposed to be able to have the right to enforce these activities upon the authors.
Publication decisions
The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
Fair play
The editors should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Editors should recuse themselves (i.e. should ask a co-editor, associate editor or other member of the editorial board instead to review and consider) from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers. Editors should require all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections if competing interests are revealed after publication. If needed, other appropriate action should be taken, such as the publication of a retraction or expression of concern. It should be ensured that the peer-review process for sponsored supplements is the same as that used for the main journal. Items in sponsored supplements should be accepted solely on the basis of academic merit and interest to readers and not be influenced by commercial considerations. Non-peer reviewed sections of their journal should be clearly identified.
Involvement and cooperation in investigations
The editors should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper, in conjunction with the publisher. Such measures will generally include contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration of the respective complaint or claims made, but may also include further communications to the relevant institutions and research bodies, and if the complaint is upheld, the publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other note, as may be relevant. Every reported act of unethical publishing behavior must be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication.
Duties of reviewers
Contribution to editorial decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper. Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication, and lies at the heart of the scientific method. ATNAA shares the view of many that all scholars who wish to contribute to publications have an obligation to do a fair share of reviewing.
Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.
Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
Standards of objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Acknowledgement of sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should correctly and appropriately cite publications that have been playing influential roles in determining the academic results stated in the authors’ paper. Information which has been obtained in private ways such as oral conversation or mail-based correspondence with third parties, must be neither used nor reported without explicite permission issued by the third party in a docmunent style. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit permission issued by the publishers who are involved in these services.
Disclosure and conflict of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
Fundamental errors in published works:
Regardless of whether the authors discover significant errors or inaccuracy in his/her own published paper by themselves or a third party points out that some inaccurate sentences or ambiguous ones, Dsergipark regards any reseach technical problems as attributed to the authors. So the editorial board for ATNAA asks the authors to choose from
among the following alternatives:
– The case that authors can withdraw their paper: Dergipark follow the procedure for withdrawing their paper according as the authors indicate
their intention of withdrawal from ATNAA.
– The case that authors submit an erratum or a corrected paper to the editorial board: All the submitted materials are reviewed elaborately, and Dergipark is supposed to have the right to withdraw their published paper without the authors’ permission if the referee regards the submitted materials as insufficient ones
Advances in the Theory of Nonlinear Analysis and its Applications (ATNAA) is a peer-reviewed journal. The published article directly reflects the quality of the authors’ work and the institutions that support them. It is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, and the publisher. Our ethic statements are based on Elsevier recommendations and COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Duties of authors
Reporting standards
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. Review and professional publication articles should also be accurate and objective, and editorial ‘opinion’ works should be clearly identified as such.
Data access and retention
Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should, in any event, be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
Originality and plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism takes many forms, from ‘passing off another’s paper as the author’s own paper to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s paper (without attribution) to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication
An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. In general, an author should not submit for consideration in another journal a previously published paper.
Acknowledgment of sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work involved in these services.
Authorship of the paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have contributed significantly to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Hazards and human or animal subjects
If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript. If the work involves the use of animal or human subjects, the author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committee(s) has approved them. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or another substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed. Examples of potential conflicts of interest which should be disclosed include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest stage possible.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or the publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original paper.
Duties of editors
Publication decisions
The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
Fair play
The editors should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to the authors’ race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.
Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Editors should recuse themselves (i.e., should ask a co-editor, associate editor, or another member of the editorial board instead to review and consider) from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers. Editors should require all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections if competing interests are revealed after publication. If needed, other appropriate action should be taken, such as the publication of a retraction or expressing concern. It should be ensured that the peer-review process for sponsored supplements is the same as that used for the main journal. Items in sponsored supplements should be accepted solely based on academic merit and interest to readers and not be influenced by commercial considerations. Non-peer-reviewed sections of their journal should be clearly identified.
Involvement and cooperation in investigations
The editors should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper, in conjunction with the publisher. Such measures will generally include contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration of the respective complaint or claims made, but may also include further communications to the relevant institutions and research bodies, and if the complaint is upheld, the publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other note, as may be relevant. Every reported act of unethical publishing behavior must be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication.
Duties of reviewers
Contribution to editorial decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper. Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication, and lies at the heart of the scientific method. ATNAA shares the view of many that all scholars who wish to contribute to publications have an obligation to do a fair share of reviewing.
Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.
Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
Standards of objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Acknowledgement of sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
Disclosure and conflict of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
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