1 ETHICAL EXPECTATIONS
1.1 Editors’ responsibilities
(1) Act in balanced, objective and fair way to authors, reviewers and editorial board members. Keeping friendly connections with these people.
(2) Send the submission to proper experts for reviewing through the collecting and editing system. Modify, peer review after modify, refuse depend on suggestions from the reviewers and Aerospace Technology recruitment criteria.
(3) Give entire, detailed and clear modifying suggestions or rejecting reasons to authors by the peer review. During the review, if serious quality problems are found in the manuscript, it is necessary to communicate with the chief editor.
(4) Follow the author's requirement of avoiding specific experts to review the submission, if it is reasonable and available. If the author disagrees with some changes made to the article, editors should give the author response to any complaints.
(5) Handle submissions for sponsored supplements or special issues in the same way as other submissions, so that articles are considered and accepted based on solely on their academic merit.
(6) Answer every question put forward by the author seriously, scientifically, rigorously and timely.
(7) Put an end to academic misconduct through CNKI sci-tech periodical academic misconduct checking system.
(8) All unpublished papers must be kept strictly confidential.
(9) Collect evidence, investigate and retract submissions which have academic misconduct and control the spread if the paper has been published.
(10) Modify or withdraw the published manuscript when finding faults in it.
(11) Protect and update the private information of authors and develop new reviewers if it is needed.
(12) Editors of Aerospace Technology can not submit papers to this journal.
1.2 Reviewer’s responsibilities
(1) Giving objective, detailed and clear comments to assist editors in improving the quality of the paper timely.
(2) Being aware of any potential conflicts of interest (financial, institutional or other relationships that might lead to bias or a conflict of interest) and to alert the editor without retaining or copying the manuscripts.
(3) Alerting the editor to any published or submitted articles which are substantially similar to that under review.
(4) To maintain the confidentiality of any information supplied by the editor or author. To not retain or copy the manuscript.
(5) To be aware of any potential conflicts of interest (financial, institutional, collaborative or other relationships between the reviewer and author) and to alert the editor to these, if necessary withdrawing their services for that manuscript.
1.3 Authors’ responsibilities
Aerospace Technology is committed to upholding the integrity of the scientific record, and will follow the COPE guidelines on how to deal with potential acts of misconduct.
Authors should refrain from misrepresenting research results which could damage the trust in the journal and ultimately the entire scientific endeavor. Maintaining integrity of the research and its presentation can be achieved by the following rules of good scientific practice.
(1) The manuscript has not been submitted to more than one journal for simultaneous consideration.
(2) The manuscript has not been published previously (partly or in full), unless the new work concerns an expansion of previous work (please provide transparency on the re-use of material to avoid the hint of text-recycling ("self-plagiarism").
(3) A single study is not split up into several parts to increase the quantity of submissions and submitted to various journals or to one journal over time (e.g. "salami-publishing").
(4) No data have been fabricated or manipulated (including images) to support your conclusions.
(5) No data, text, or theories by others are presented as if they were the authors' own ("plagiarism"). Proper acknowledgments to other works must be given, and this includes material that is closely copied (near verbatim), summarized and/or paraphrased. Quotation marks are used for verbatim copying of material, and permissions are secured for material that is copyrighted.
(6) Important note: Aerospace Technology may use software to screen for plagiarism.
(7) Consent to submit has been received from all co-authors and responsible authorities at the institute/organization where the work has been carried out before the work is submitted.
(8) Authors whose names appear on the submission have contributed sufficiently to the scientific work and therefore share collective responsibility and accountability for the results.
(9) Authors should notify the editorial department if a significant error in their publications is identified.
1.4 Sponsor or Publisher responsibilities
(1) Aerospace Technology is sponsored and published by both China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Limited and Beijing HIWING Scientific and Technology Information Institute. The requirements of them for the journal are obeying the academic publishing ethical standards, publishing high quality and up-to-standard manuscripts and improving communication in the aerospace field.
(2) The publishing organization can not intervene in the decision-making power of editors.
1.5 Authorship
Authorship should be limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work, and every author has responsibility for the data and argument mentioned in the paper. The corresponding author must have obtained permission from all authors for the submission of each version of the paper and for any change in authorship.
In addition: changes of authorship or in the order of authors are not accepted after acceptance of a manuscript; requests to add or delete authors at the revision stage or after publication is a serious matter, and may be considered only after receipt of written approval from all authors and a detailed explanation about the role/deletion of the new/deleted author. The decision on accepting the change rests with the editorial department of the journal, and authors should be prepared to send relevant documentation or data in order to verify the validity of the results. This could be in the form of raw data, samples, records, etc.
1.6 Disclosure of potential conflict of interests
Authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could influence or bias the work. Although an author may not feel there are conflicts, disclosure of relationships and interests affords a more transparent process, leading to an accurate and objective assessment of the work. Awareness of real or perceived conflicts of interest is a perspective to which the readers are entitled, and is not meant to imply that a financial relationship with an organization that sponsored the research or compensation for consultancy work is inappropriate. Examples of potential conflicts of interest that are directly or indirectly related to the research may include but are not limited to the following:
(1) Research grants from funding agencies (please give the research funder and the grant number);
(2) Honoraria for speaking at symposia;
(3) Financial support for attending symposia;
(4) Financial support for educational programs;
(5) Employment or consultation;
(6) Support fro Honoraria for speaking at symposia;m a project sponsor;
(7) Position on advisory board or board of directors or other types of management relationships;
(8) Multiple affiliations;
(9) Financial relationships, for example, equity ownership or investment interest;
(10) Intellectual property rights (e.g. patents, copyrights and royalties from such rights);
(11) Holdings of spouse and/or children that may have a financial interest in the work.
In addition, interests that go beyond financial interests and compensation (non-financial interests) that may be important to readers should be disclosed. These may include but are not limited to personal relationships or competing interests directly or indirectly tied to this research, professional interests or personal beliefs that may influence your research. The corresponding author will include a summary statement in the text of the manuscript in a separate section before the reference list. See below examples of disclosures.
Funding: This study was funded by X (grant number X).
Conflict of Interest: Author A has received research grants from Company A. Author B has received a speaker honorarium from Company X and owns stock in Company Y. Author C is a member of committee Z.
If no conflict exists, the authors should state as follows.
Conflict of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
1.7 Informed consent
All individuals have individual rights that are not to be infringed. Individual participants in studies have the right to decide what happens to the (identifiable) personal data gathered and what they have said e.g. during a study or an interview as well as to any photograph that was taken. Hence it is important that all participants gave their informed consent in writing prior to inclusion in the study. Identifying details (names, dates of birth, identity numbers and other information) of the participants that were studied should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and genetic profiles unless the information is essential for scientific purposes, and the participant (or parent or guardian if the participant is incapable) has given written informed consent for publication.
Informed consent: “Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.”
If identifying information about participants is available in the article, the following statement should be included:
“Additional informed consent was obtained from all individual participants for whom identifying information is included in this article.”
2 Identification and Treatment of Academic Misconduct Papers
In order to protect the rights and interests of readers and maintain the quality and reputation of this journal, Aerospace Technology will strictly test and screen papers in the publishing process, and continue to implement the rejection system and deal with papers identified as academic misconduct seriously. The specific detection and identification process and treatment methods are hereby announced as follows:
2.1 The journal adopts the "Academic Misconduct Literature Check(AMLC)" to automatically detect the papers, and takes the general library of online publishing of China Academic Journal Network Publishing Database to detect academic misconduct papers such as plagiarism and plagiarism, forgery, tampering, improper signature, multiple submission of one draft and so on.
2.2 Scope of papers to be tested
(1) All papers recorded or ready for employment by the journal;
(2) Readers report suspected plagiarism of papers.
2.3 Identification of academic misconduct papers
The "Academic Misconduct Literature Check" is used to check the duplicate of the paper. If the duplication rate is 15% or more, the paper and the comparison paper shall be submitted to the reviewer together to determine the nature and form of the duplication of the paper, and prepare the Opinion on the Identification and Treatment of the Similarity between the Paper and the Comparison Paper.
The criteria for identifying papers as academic misconduct are as follows:
(1) Copying the achievements of others in the original or basically intact content of the thesis;
(2) In the content of the paper, changing the type of other people's achievements and regard the achievements completed by others as the achievements completed by themselves independently; Or not changing the type of achievements, but making use of the copyright protected elements in the achievements and changing the specific forms of expression of the achievements, and treating the achievements completed by others as the achievements completed independently by themselves;
(3) Using the protected views of others to form the whole, core or main views of his own paper, and taking the protected academic achievements of others as the main part or substantive part of his own academic paper;
(4) Fabricating or tampering with research results, investigation data, experimental data or literature in a paper;
(5) Quoting other people's protected views, plans, materials, data, etc., without annotation or explanation of the source;
(6) More than one draft.
2.4 Treatment of papers identified as academic misconduct
(1) In a prudent manner, the editorial department shall timely notify the author of the papers finally identified as academic misconduct, and allow the author to explain and defend this issue before making a decision.
(2) If the paper has been hired but not officially published, inform the author that the paper will be returned directly in the manuscript processing process of the website of this journal, cancel its employment qualification, and give criticism, education and warning to the author.
(3) If the paper has been officially published, notify the author of the paper in writing, cancel the employment qualification of the paper, and order the author to return the manuscript fee of the paper. If it causes reputation or other losses to the journal, the journal will reserve the right to continue to pursue compensation.
(4) If the circumstances are serious, the author's unit and name will be published in the journal at a selected time, as well as the notice of canceling the paper, and the event will be notified to the author's unit and other scientific and technological journals in the field;
(5) For the papers written by the author as the first author who seriously plagiarizes and submits more than one draft, this journal will not be employed within 2 years.
2.5 Handling of author's objection
If the author of the paper disagrees with the identification and handling results of the journal, he can submit a written application for review to the editorial department of the journal within 10 working days from the date of receiving the notice (the journal will not accept it if it is overdue). The editorial department is responsible for inviting experts to review the paper, making final treatment opinions, and notifying the author of the review results within 30 working days.
The above measures shall come into force as of the date of promulgation and shall be interpreted by the Editorial Board of Aerospace Technology.
Editorial Board of Aerospace Technology