Ethical Guidelines

Ethical Guidelines
General Principles
The journal Interdisciplinary Educational Technology adheres to the ethical guidelines and publication standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). To comply with the relevant laws, procedures, and the Declaration of Helsinki, authors must include additional documents such as informed consent and ethics committee approval when submitting their work. This is mandatory for human or animal studies, as well as for vulnerable populations or hazardous substances. To ensure transparency, authors must disclose potential conflicts of interest, cooperate fully with editors, and respond promptly to their inquiries.

Authors may be contacted for data, code, or other study-related materials. Only those who have made substantial contributions and take full responsibility for the results, discussion,s and conclusions should be listed as authors. Other contributors should be acknowledged. To avoid ghostwriting or donated authorship, the email addresses of all authors as well as the ORCID of the corresponding author must be provided. To increase transparency, each author must also provide details of their contributions, institutional email addresses, ORCIDs, Scopus author IDs, and WoS researcher IDs. In rare cases, authors may be added, deleted, or reassigned in revisions with justification and approval of all co-authors, subject to editorial approval.

Once an article has been accepted for publication, the author list cannot be changed. If you use the work, words, ideas, or results of others in your study, you must properly cite and acknowledge them. Authors must obtain permission from copyright holders if their study contains copyrighted photos, table,s or text. Authors are assumed to have obtained all necessary permissions before submitting their work. Please note that the editors and the publisher cannot be held liable if it turns out that the necessary permissions have not been obtained.

Reviewers: Editors value and respect reviewers' opinions when making editorial decisions. Reviewers should inform editors immediately if they do not feel qualified to review or if there is a potential conflict of interest. Once a review has been accepted, reviewers must keep the research materials strictly confidential and submit their constructive feedback within the allotted time period.

Editors: editors have various responsibilities, such as guiding peer reviewers, overseeing the double-blind editorial peer review process, maintaining the confidentiality of submissions, addressing suspected unethical behavior, and making publication decisions based on the quality, relevance, originality, and significance of the proposal rather than the authors’ ethnicity, gender, or religion. In addition, editors monitor compliance with globally recognized ethical standards in published articles. The editors must be impartial when editing the submitted manuscripts.

The publisher of Educational Point oversees the publication and provides the necessary infrastructure and online tools to ensure the continuous publication of the journals. This includes ensuring that content is accessible and disseminated. The publisher promotes adherence to COPE standards, emphasizing fairness, confidentiality, objectivity, honesty, respect, and timeliness for authors, editors, and reviewers. Compliance with editorial processes and decisions is essential.

Academic dishonesty and plagiarism constitute academic misconduct.

At Educational Point, editors take academic integrity very seriously. Our editorial staff and editors strictly prohibit any form of academic misconduct such as plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, simultaneous submission, falsification of data, fabrication, manipulation of citations, copyright infringement, ghostwriting, and gift authorship. We use iThenticate software to ensure originality and compare submitted manuscripts with millions of published articles and websites. Editors also check for plagiarism with every revision. If misconduct is suspected, the publisher and editor work together to clarify the case using the relevant COPE flowcharts and take appropriate action, even if the case is not discovered until years after publication.

Corrections And Withdrawals
In the case of errors or inaccuracies discovered after publication, it is necessary to issue an erratum or a corrigendum. However, if the errors are serious and affect the basis of the study or if there is evidence of academic misconduct, the COPE retraction guidelines require that the article be retracted.

Complaints and Appeals
If you are dissatisfied with the publication process or content, you can send an email with a detailed explanation to editor@intedutechnology.com. We will follow the COPE Complaints and Appeals Policy for all complaints.

Other concerns
Any issues with the journal's peer review process will be addressed within the appropriate COPE guidelines and flowcharts. If you have any further questions or concerns, please contact us at editor@intedutechnology.com.