1. General Statement
Journal of New Technology and Materials is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics, research integrity, editorial independence, and scholarly transparency. The journal expects all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, reviewers, editors, editorial board members, and publishing staff, to act responsibly, honestly, fairly, and professionally.
The journal publishes original scholarly work in materials science, materials engineering, nanoscience, nanotechnology, physics, chemistry, life sciences, and related areas of new technology and materials research. All submitted manuscripts must be prepared and submitted in accordance with accepted standards of academic integrity, research ethics, and responsible scientific communication.
The journal does not tolerate plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification, duplicate publication, inappropriate authorship, citation manipulation, peer-review manipulation, undisclosed conflicts of interest, unethical research practices, or any other form of publication misconduct.
2. Editorial Independence
Editorial decisions in Journal of New Technology and Materials are based solely on the academic quality, originality, methodological soundness, relevance, ethical compliance, and scholarly contribution of the submitted manuscript.
Decisions are not influenced by the authors’ nationality, institutional affiliation, gender, religion, political opinion, personal relationships, or financial considerations. As a diamond open access journal, Journal of New Technology and Materials does not charge authors submission fees or article processing charges. No payment is requested or accepted in exchange for peer review, editorial consideration, acceptance, or publication.
The Editor-in-Chief, handling editors, and editorial board members are responsible for protecting the independence and integrity of the editorial process.
3. Responsibilities of Authors
Authors submitting manuscripts to Journal of New Technology and Materials must ensure that their work is original, accurate, ethically conducted, and not under consideration elsewhere.
Authors are responsible for the content of their manuscripts, including the accuracy of data, interpretation of results, proper acknowledgment of sources, and compliance with ethical and legal requirements.
3.1 Originality and Plagiarism
Submitted manuscripts must represent original work by the authors. Any text, data, figures, tables, methods, ideas, or results taken from other sources must be properly cited and acknowledged.
Plagiarism in any form is unacceptable. This includes direct copying, close paraphrasing without proper citation, unattributed use of another person’s ideas, self-plagiarism, duplicate use of previously published material, and presentation of another person’s work as the author’s own.
The journal may use similarity-checking tools to screen submitted manuscripts. Manuscripts with unacceptable similarity, unattributed copying, or evidence of plagiarism may be rejected, returned for correction, or investigated according to the journal’s publication ethics procedures.
3.2 Duplicate Submission and Redundant Publication
Authors must not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time. Manuscripts submitted to Journal of New Technology and Materials must not be under review, accepted, or published elsewhere.
Redundant publication, duplicate publication, salami publication, or unnecessary fragmentation of the same research into multiple manuscripts is not acceptable. If a submitted manuscript is related to previously published work by the same authors, the earlier work must be clearly cited, and the new submission must provide a distinct and meaningful scholarly contribution.
3.3 Accuracy of Data and Results
Authors must present their research honestly and accurately. Data should not be fabricated, falsified, selectively reported, or manipulated to support a desired conclusion.
The methods, materials, experimental conditions, analytical procedures, and results should be described with sufficient clarity to allow evaluation, verification, and, where possible, replication by other researchers.
Authors should retain original data, laboratory records, images, spectra, calculations, simulation files, or other research materials for a reasonable period after publication. The journal may request supporting data during peer review or after publication if questions arise about the reliability of the work.
3.4 Authorship and Contribution
Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made a significant scholarly contribution to the conception, design, execution, analysis, interpretation, or writing of the research.
All listed authors must approve the submitted version of the manuscript and agree to be accountable for their contribution to the work. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all co-authors have reviewed and approved the manuscript before submission.
Individuals who contributed to the work but do not meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged appropriately in the acknowledgment section, with their permission.
Gift authorship, guest authorship, honorary authorship, and ghost authorship are not acceptable.
3.5 Changes in Authorship
Requests to add, remove, or rearrange authors after submission must be clearly justified and approved by all authors, including any author being added or removed.
The journal may require a signed authorship-change statement from all authors. Authorship changes after acceptance or publication are considered serious matters and will be handled carefully in accordance with publication ethics standards.
After publication, changes to authorship may require a formal correction notice.
3.6 Funding and Acknowledgments
Authors must disclose all sources of financial support, research grants, institutional funding, equipment support, material support, or other assistance that contributed to the research.
The role of the funder, if any, should be stated clearly. If the funder had no role in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript preparation, or publication decision, this should also be stated.
All individuals, laboratories, institutions, or organizations that provided non-author contributions should be acknowledged appropriately.
3.7 Conflicts of Interest
Authors must disclose any financial, institutional, personal, professional, or academic conflicts of interest that could influence, or appear to influence, the research, interpretation, or publication of the manuscript.
Examples may include employment, consultancy, funding, patents, paid expert testimony, personal relationships, institutional affiliations, academic competition, or commercial interests related to the submitted work.
If there are no conflicts of interest, authors should include a statement such as: “The authors declare no conflict of interest.”
3.8 Ethical Approval for Research
Research involving humans, animals, biological samples, hazardous materials, environmental sampling, or sensitive data must comply with applicable ethical, institutional, national, and international requirements.
Where required, authors must provide details of ethics approval, institutional review board approval, animal care approval, informed consent, permissions, licenses, or other relevant authorization.
For studies involving human participants, authors should confirm that informed consent was obtained where applicable. For studies involving animals, authors should confirm that appropriate welfare standards and institutional regulations were followed.
3.9 Use of Figures, Images, and Third-Party Material
Authors must ensure that all figures, images, tables, diagrams, photographs, maps, and supplementary materials are original or used with appropriate permission.
Image manipulation that misrepresents the data is not acceptable. Adjustments to images should be applied consistently and must not obscure, enhance, remove, or alter meaningful scientific information.
If copyrighted third-party material is included, authors are responsible for obtaining permission and clearly identifying any material that is not covered by the article’s open access license.
3.10 Citation Ethics
Authors should cite relevant and reliable literature accurately and fairly. Citations should support the scholarly background, methods, discussion, and interpretation of the manuscript.
Authors must not engage in citation manipulation, excessive self-citation, inappropriate citation of unrelated work, or coercive citation practices. References should be included because they are academically relevant, not to artificially increase citation counts.
3.11 Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools
Authors who use artificial intelligence tools, language models, automated writing tools, image-generation tools, code-generation tools, or other AI-assisted technologies in manuscript preparation must use them responsibly.
AI tools must not be listed as authors because they cannot take responsibility for the content of the work. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and ethical compliance of all manuscript content.
Where AI tools are used in a meaningful way, such as for language editing, coding assistance, data processing, or image generation, authors should disclose this use in the manuscript where appropriate.
AI tools must not be used to fabricate data, generate false references, create misleading images, conceal plagiarism, or misrepresent research results.
4. Responsibilities of Reviewers
Peer reviewers play an essential role in maintaining the quality and integrity of Journal of New Technology and Materials. Reviewers are expected to provide fair, constructive, timely, and confidential evaluations of submitted manuscripts.
4.1 Confidentiality
Manuscripts received for review are confidential documents. Reviewers must not share, discuss, copy, distribute, or use unpublished manuscript content without permission from the journal.
Information obtained during peer review must not be used for personal, academic, financial, or competitive advantage.
4.2 Objectivity and Constructive Review
Reviewers should evaluate manuscripts objectively and professionally. Comments should be clear, evidence-based, respectful, and useful to both editors and authors.
Personal criticism of authors is not acceptable. Reviewers should explain their concerns clearly and, where possible, suggest ways to improve the manuscript.
4.3 Conflicts of Interest
Reviewers must decline a review invitation if they have a conflict of interest that could affect their ability to provide an impartial assessment.
Potential conflicts may include recent collaboration with the authors, same institutional affiliation, personal relationship, academic rivalry, financial interest, or direct involvement in the research topic.
4.4 Timeliness
Reviewers should accept review invitations only when they can complete the review within the requested timeframe. If a reviewer is unable to complete the review on time, they should inform the editorial office promptly.
4.5 Recognition of Ethical Concerns
Reviewers should alert the editor if they suspect plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication, image manipulation, ethical approval problems, undisclosed conflicts of interest, or any other form of misconduct.
Reviewers should also identify relevant published work that has not been cited where it is necessary for scholarly accuracy.
5. Responsibilities of Editors
Editors of Journal of New Technology and Materials are responsible for ensuring a fair, transparent, confidential, and ethically sound editorial process.
5.1 Fair Evaluation
Editors evaluate manuscripts according to scholarly merit, originality, methodological quality, clarity, ethical compliance, and relevance to the journal’s scope.
Editorial decisions should not be influenced by personal bias, institutional pressure, commercial interest, nationality, gender, religion, political view, or other irrelevant factors.
5.2 Confidentiality
Editors must protect the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts, reviewer identities, reviewer reports, editorial correspondence, and unpublished research information.
Manuscript information should be shared only with individuals directly involved in the editorial and review process.
5.3 Conflicts of Interest
Editors must not handle manuscripts where they have a conflict of interest. If an editor has a personal, professional, financial, or academic relationship with the authors or the work, the manuscript should be assigned to another qualified editor.
Editors should not use unpublished information from submitted manuscripts for personal research or advantage.
5.4 Editorial Decisions
Editors are responsible for making publication decisions based on peer-review reports, editorial assessment, ethical considerations, and journal policy.
Possible decisions may include acceptance, minor revision, major revision, rejection, or referral for further review. Editors may reject manuscripts without external review if they are outside the journal’s scope, scientifically weak, unethical, incomplete, poorly prepared, or unsuitable for publication.
5.5 Handling Ethical Concerns
Editors must take allegations of publication misconduct seriously. Ethical concerns may be raised before or after publication by authors, reviewers, readers, institutions, or editorial staff.
The journal will review concerns carefully, seek evidence where necessary, contact authors for explanation, consult relevant editors or experts, and take appropriate action.
6. Peer Review Policy and Integrity
Journal of New Technology and Materials uses peer review to evaluate the scholarly quality, originality, validity, and relevance of submitted manuscripts.
Peer review is intended to support editorial decision-making and improve the quality of published research. The journal expects reviewers and editors to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the process.
Any attempt to manipulate peer review is considered serious misconduct. This includes fake reviewer identities, false reviewer email addresses, reviewer impersonation, undisclosed author involvement in reviewer suggestions, coercive review practices, or inappropriate influence over the editorial process.
If peer-review manipulation is suspected, the journal may reject the manuscript, retract a published article, notify relevant institutions, or take other appropriate action.
7. Research Misconduct
Research misconduct includes, but is not limited to:
- Plagiarism;
- Data fabrication;
- Data falsification;
- Image manipulation;
- Duplicate submission;
- Redundant publication;
- Undisclosed conflicts of interest;
- False authorship claims;
- Ghost, guest, or gift authorship;
- Peer-review manipulation;
- Citation manipulation;
- Misrepresentation of ethical approval;
- Misuse of confidential information;
- Failure to disclose funding or competing interests;
- Use of fabricated references or unsupported claims.
When misconduct is suspected, the journal may investigate the matter, request explanations or original data from authors, consult reviewers or editorial board members, contact institutions or ethics committees, issue corrections, publish expressions of concern, retract articles, or reject manuscripts.
8. Plagiarism and Similarity Screening
Journal of New Technology and Materials may screen submitted manuscripts for similarity to previously published material. Similarity reports are evaluated carefully and are not judged by percentage alone.
The journal considers the nature, extent, and location of similarity. Properly quoted, cited, and standard methodological text may be treated differently from unattributed copying of original ideas, results, discussion, or conclusions.
Manuscripts containing serious plagiarism may be rejected. If plagiarism is discovered after publication, the journal may issue a correction, expression of concern, or retraction, depending on the seriousness of the case.
9. Corrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern
Journal of New Technology and Materials is committed to maintaining the integrity of the scholarly record. When errors or ethical problems are identified after publication, the journal will take appropriate action.
9.1 Corrections
A correction may be published when an article contains an error that affects the accuracy, interpretation, metadata, authorship information, funding statement, conflict-of-interest statement, or other part of the article, but does not invalidate the overall findings.
Corrections may be requested by authors, readers, editors, or institutions. The correction notice should clearly identify the original article and explain the correction.
9.2 Retractions
A retraction may be issued when the findings of an article are unreliable, seriously flawed, unethical, plagiarized, fabricated, falsified, duplicated, or otherwise invalid.
A retraction may also be considered if the article reports unethical research, contains major undisclosed conflicts of interest, has manipulated peer review, or violates publication ethics in a way that affects the integrity of the scholarly record.
The retracted article should remain part of the scholarly record where possible, clearly marked as retracted, with a retraction notice explaining the reason.
9.3 Expressions of Concern
An expression of concern may be published when serious concerns exist about a published article, but the evidence is incomplete, an investigation is ongoing, or the final outcome has not yet been determined.
An expression of concern may later be followed by a correction, retraction, or notice of resolution, depending on the result of the investigation.
10. Appeals and Complaints
Authors may appeal editorial decisions if they believe that a significant error occurred during peer review or editorial evaluation.
Appeals should be submitted in writing to the editorial office and should clearly explain the reason for the appeal, including any evidence supporting the request. Appeals must be professional and focused on scholarly or procedural issues.
The journal may assign the appeal to the Editor-in-Chief, a senior editor, or an independent editorial board member. The decision after appeal may uphold the original decision, request further review, or revise the editorial decision.
Complaints about editorial conduct, reviewer conduct, publication ethics, corrections, authorship, or journal processes will be reviewed carefully and handled according to the nature of the concern.
11. Conflicts of Interest for Editors, Reviewers, and Authors
All participants in the publication process must disclose conflicts of interest that could influence, or appear to influence, their judgment.
Authors must disclose relevant conflicts in the manuscript. Reviewers must decline review invitations where impartiality may be affected. Editors must recuse themselves from handling manuscripts where they have a conflict.
Transparency about conflicts of interest helps protect trust in the editorial and publication process.
12. Confidentiality and Data Protection
The journal treats submitted manuscripts, peer-review reports, editorial decisions, author responses, and related correspondence as confidential.
Personal information collected during submission, review, and publication is used only for legitimate editorial, publishing, indexing, communication, and administrative purposes.
The journal does not sell or misuse personal information. Personal data are handled according to the journal’s privacy policy.
13. Special Issues and Guest Editors
Special issues, thematic collections, and invited sections must follow the same ethical, editorial, and peer-review standards as regular submissions.
Guest editors must act independently, avoid conflicts of interest, maintain confidentiality, and ensure fair peer review. The Editor-in-Chief or journal editorial office retains oversight of special issue processes.
Manuscripts submitted to special issues may be rejected if they do not meet the journal’s scientific, ethical, or editorial standards.
14. Advertising, Sponsorship, and Commercial Influence
Editorial decisions in Journal of New Technology and Materials are independent from sponsorship, institutional support, indexing status, advertising, or financial considerations.
No external party may influence editorial decisions, peer-review outcomes, acceptance, rejection, correction, or retraction of manuscripts.
15. Post-Publication Discussions
The journal welcomes responsible scholarly discussion of published articles. Readers may contact the editorial office if they identify possible errors, ethical concerns, data problems, authorship issues, or other matters affecting the reliability of published work.
Concerns should be raised in a professional manner and should include sufficient detail to allow proper assessment.
The journal will review post-publication concerns carefully and may contact authors, reviewers, editors, institutions, or relevant experts where necessary.
16. Responsibilities of the Journal
Journal of New Technology and Materials is responsible for protecting the integrity of the publication process and the scholarly record.
The journal will work to:
- Maintain fair and transparent editorial procedures;
- Protect the confidentiality of peer review;
- Correct the scholarly record when necessary;
- Investigate credible ethical concerns;
- Avoid conflicts of interest in editorial handling;
- Preserve editorial independence;
- Ensure that publication decisions are based on academic merit;
- Promote responsible authorship, reviewing, and editing;
- Support open access dissemination under the journal’s license.
17. Contact for Ethical Concerns
Questions, complaints, appeals, or concerns related to publication ethics may be submitted to the editorial office of Journal of New Technology and Materials.
All ethical concerns should include the article title, author names, DOI or publication details where available, a clear description of the concern, and any supporting evidence.
The journal will review such matters carefully and take appropriate action in accordance with publication ethics standards and the integrity of the scholarly record.