The chief goal of our policy is threefold: to provide advice for our authors, to maintain the scholarly integrity of our journal and their content, and to detail the ethical responsibilities of IJIAMR, our editors and authors.

We expect all authors to read and understand our ethics policy before submitting to any of our journal. This is in accordance with our commitment to the prevention of ethical misconduct, which we recognise to be a growing problem in academic and professional publications. It is important to note that most incidents of plagiarism, redundant publication, copyright infringement or similar occur because of a lack of understanding, and not through fraudulent intent. Our policy is one of prevention and not persecution.

If you have any questions, please contact the relevant editorial office, or IJIAMR Journal ethics representative: ijiamr@rajguru.du.ac.in

Authors should:

• Ensure that all researched work submitted is original, fully referenced and that all authorsare represented accurately.
• Provide accurate contact details for a designated corresponding author, who shall bedeemed by the publisher and editor as fully responsible for the authorship of the paper andall communications concerning the ethical status and originality of the paper. This includesany queries or investigations that may arise, pre- or post publication.
• Openly disclose the source of all data and third-party material, including previouslyunpublished work by the authors themselves. Anything that could compromise theoriginality of the submission should be expressly avoided and/or discussed with the editorial office in the first instance.
• Identify any third party material that they intend to include in their article, and obtainwritten permission for re-use in each instance from the relevant copyright holders. Suchpermissions should be submitted once the manuscript is accepted, or requires smallchanges to be accepted. Further guidance on seeking permission to use 3rd party material is available here.
• Openly disclose any conflict of interest – for example, if publication were to benefit acompany or services in which the author(s) has a vested interest.
• Expect to sign a copyright assignment form on acceptance of their work, which will assumethat the author is empowered to assign copyright to the publisher.
• Fully correspond and comply with the editor and publisher in any requests for source data,proof of authorship or originality in a timely manner, providing reasonable explanation fordiscrepancies or failures to disclose vital information.
• Fully co-operate with any consequent investigations if the editor and/or publisher aredissatisfied with the evidence available or the explanations provided.
• Expect transparency, efficiency and respect from the publisher and the editor during thesubmissions process.
• Remain in good communication with both the publisher and the editor.
• When necessary, submit corrigenda in a timely and responsible fashion.
• Co-operate fully with the publication of errata and with the retraction of articles found to be unethical, misleading or damaging.
• Remain in good communication with the editor(s), the publisher and any co-authors.

Editors should:

• Read and understand COPE guidelines as well as IJIAMR ethics policy, andfollow them during all editorial processes.
• Protect the reputation of their journal and published work by only publishing content ofthe highest quality and relevance in a timely and responsible manner.
• Carry out thorough, objective and confidential peer review for original article submissionsthat pass the initial quality check and editorial assessment, in adherence with COPEguidelines and IJIAMR Journal ethics policy.
• Detail and justify any article types which will not be peer reviewed (e.g. editorials, opinion pieces etc.).
• Provide a transparent review and publication process as far as is possible, with full respect and care paid to the author(s).
• Provide advice and give reasonable explanation and updates to authors during the submissions process and once a decision has been made.
• Allow authors the right to appeal any editorial decision.
• Only accept papers based on the original merit, quality and relevance of their content
• Support authors in queries concerning the originality of their submissions and request the support of IJIAMR if necessary.
• Advise the publisher of any third party material which has been included for which they donot believe sufficient permission has been cleared.
• Be ready and prepared to publish corrections, corrigenda, errata when necessary, as wellas retract articles that (the editor and IJIAMR) deem unethical, misleading ordamaging.
• Remain in good communication with both the publisher and the author(s).

Reviewers should:

• Adhere to IJIAMR policy of confidential peer review of their journal. This includes, but is not restricted to, keeping their identity hidden from authors and not externally distributing any work that is passed to them for their eyes only.
• Only accept invitations to review work that is relevant to their own expertise and speciality.
• Review submitted work in a responsible, impartial and timely manner.
• Report any suspected ethical misconduct as part of a thorough and honest review of thework.
• Avoid the use of unnecessarily inflammatory or offensive language in their appraisal of thework.
• Accept the commitment to review future versions of the work and provide 'follow up’ advice to the editor(s), if requested.
• Seek advice from the editor if anything is unclear at the time of invitation.
• Remain in good communication with both the publisher and the editor.