JNSTT has adopted clear and rigorous ethical guidelines for best working practices.
Declaration of Authorship
All persons designated as authors should have participated sufficiently in the work and should have made a substantial, direct, and intellectual contribution to the work.
JNSTT believes that the authorship is justified when the following criteria are fulfilled:
- All authors must take public responsibility for the work and must ensure that they would respond to the questions regarding accuracy and integrity of the work.
- All authors should contribute to conception, design, analysis and/or interpretation of the data
- All authors should participate in drafting the article and revising it critically for important intellectual content
- All authors must approve the final version of the manuscript that is to be published.
Conflicts of Interest
JNSTT requires all authors, editors, members and reviewers to disclose any conflicts of interest that may be inherent in the submissions. Financial relationships, personal relationships, academic relationship, intellectual passion, etc., are usually considered to be the most important conflicts of interest. Such arrangements must be disclosed where there is any risk of a perception of compromise. The policy of the journal is that the judgment or decision taken on submitted manuscript should not be compromised or affected by any conflict of interest. The corresponding author must ensure that all authors have been asked to disclose any conflict of interest. Reviewers must disqualify themselves from reviewing the specific manuscript if they believe that they are involved in any conflict of interest. If a potential bias exists, editors and editorial staff should withdraw themselves from handling the paper.
Plagiarism
JNSTT considers plagiarism as a serious scientific misconduct and a breach of journalistic ethics. It verifies the originality of submitted manuscripts through plagiarism software. If a large amount of text is found to be plagiarized, then the manuscript is subject to rejection. But in case of minor plagiarism where author makes unattributed usage of few phrases of standard methods description or parts of introduction from a previously published paper, the editor contacts author and raises concerns regarding the plagiarized material. The decision regarding rejection or consideration of an article would be made after receiving the article with proper attributions and corrections.