Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Peer-review process
Manuscripts submitted for publication are peer reviewed. In general, single blind review is being done during the review process. On the basis of reviewer’s comments, authors will be asked by the editor to revise the paper and/or repudiate queries.
Publication ethics
While publishing an article it is important to follow the ethical standard. It is pertinent in today’s era of internet to strictly follow the publishing ethics. Publication ethics starts with the research ethics and so on.
Following ethical issues needs consideration while publishing:
Authorship: Authorship should be given to those who has contributed significantly. It must be limited to those who have made a noteworthy contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of data in a particular research study.
Research data: Authors must ensure that the data presented in the manuscript should be the outcome of the experiments done by following right research ethics.
Originality: All the authors must ensure that submitted piece of study is original work. Appropriate acknowledgement is prerequisite if the authors have used/reported others’ work.
Redundant or concurrent publication: Publishing more than one manuscript(s)from a single study with overlapping data must be avoided. Similarly, publishing the same research in more than one journal doesn’t falls under right publication ethics.
Acknowledgement: Relevant acknowledgment is also important for any publication.
Conflicts of interest: All submissions must include disclosure that there is no conflict of interest among all the authors.
Errors in published works: If an author discovers a significant error in the published work, it is expected that the author will inform the journal for retraction or correction the paper.
Authors responsibilities
All authors must become members of the Society once paper is accepted for publication. Membership fee: Life – Rs. 6000/- ; Annual – Rs. 1000/- . Annual membership is valid only for 1 year. The membership and processing fee for foreign contributors can be waived off under special circumstances.
All the authors are encouraged to participate in peer review process of the journal. All authors have significantly contributed to the research. All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
Financial support, if any utilized during experimentation must be cited in the manuscript. Publishing more than one manuscript(s) from a single study with overlapping data must be avoided. Similarly, publishing the same research in more than one journal doesn’t falls under right publication ethics.
Copyright and Access
In order to publish and further disseminate articles of the journal, we need publishing rights. It is understood that the author transfer the rights to the society for publishing the article while submitting the final version of the manuscript for acceptance. Society supports the need for authors to share, disseminate and maximize the impact of their research using the rights. No article should be shared for any commercial use.
Ownership and management
Pesticide Research Journal is an international journal published half yearly by the Society of Pesticide Science India located at Division of Agricultural Chemicals, Lal Bahadur Shastri Building, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. Society of Pesticide Science India was registered under the Societies Act with Registration Number-19211, 1988. The Society aimed to promote science based safe, effective and judicious use of pesticides- an essential and intensive input in today’s agriculture.