After the author's submission is successful, the editorial department will first conduct a preliminary review of the manuscript. For manuscripts that lack originality, have serious scientific or technical defects, lack valuable information, or do not meet the scope of journal content, the editorial department will reject them. This journal conducts preliminary review, re review, and final review of manuscripts that have passed the preliminary review, with the journal editor in chief responsible for the final review. Based on the opinions of the third review, with academic quality as the premise, fair and impartial selection of manuscripts. The author must respond to the comments of the reviewers one by one and submit a revised version of the manuscript. This process will be repeated until the reviewer and editor are satisfied with the manuscript.
For accepted manuscripts, the editorial department has the right to make technical and textual modifications, and any modifications involving the original intention will be approved by the author. The author bears the responsibility for writing.
The author shall be notified of the review results within 3 months, and during this period, the author shall not submit more than one manuscript. If no notification is received from the editorial department for more than 3 months, the author may decide to submit to another publication or withdraw the manuscript, but approval from the editorial department is required before proceeding. After the editorial department decides to hire the manuscript, the author will be notified promptly. If the author is unable to revise the manuscript within the specified time during the revision process, an extension request must be submitted to the editorial department; If there is no reason why the manuscript has not been revised within the specified time, the editorial department has the right to reject the manuscript.
Editorial and editorial submissions must also comply with all review and editorial procedures of the journal. Editorial board members and editors are not allowed to participate in the review, editing, and employment decisions of their own, their family members, and colleagues when writing papers.
If the author has objections to the editor's review comments, they can appeal. The author needs to write an "appeal opinion", indicate the manuscript number, and send it to the designated email address of the journal. The opinion form needs to state detailed reasons for the appeal, including a comprehensive and reasonable explanation of the review comments, and take effect after being stamped by the author's unit. The editorial department will decide whether to accept appeals based on specific circumstances.
Recording and confirmation: After receiving a complaint, the editorial department will first record the content of the complaint and notify the complainant by sending a confirmation email or other written form to ensure that they are aware that their issue is being addressed.
Evaluation and investigation: The editorial department will evaluate the complaint, determine its severity and urgency, and carry out necessary investigation work. This may involve communicating with relevant personnel, collecting evidence, and reviewing relevant publishing policies and procedures.
Communication and feedback: The editorial department will maintain communication with the complainant, regularly update the progress of complaint handling, and provide detailed feedback information after the investigation is completed.
Take corresponding measures: Based on the nature of the complaint and the investigation results, the editorial department may take measures including but not limited to correcting errors, issuing correction statements, improving workflow and policies, etc.
Adhere to ethical standards: Throughout the complaint handling process, the journal editorial department should strictly adhere to the principles of publishing ethics and transparency, ensuring the fairness and transparency of all measures.
Manuscripts submitted to EnPress Publisher should:
1) not have been published before
2) not concurrently be submitted elsewhere
If a part of a manuscript has been published or will be published elsewhere, authors must inform the editors in a cover letter. If a duplicate submission is detected during peer review, the manuscript may be rejected. If it is detected after publication, the manuscript may be retracted.
Authors are advised to observe high standards in the aspect of publication ethics. Plagiarism is a strictly unacceptable practice in journals published by EnPress Publisher, including duplicate publication of the author’s work without proper citation.
Every manuscript submitted for publication is checked for plagiarism via Crossref Similarity Check (powered by iThenticate) after submission and before being sent to the editor for editorial review. Any detection of overlapping and similar texts in the manuscripts submitted will be investigated promptly and may lead to the manuscript being rejected.
Fabrication involves manipulating the data or analysis to match the desired results. Falsification involves making up data and results without any research work in fact. Fabrication and falsification are both misconducts, and they can result in an unscientific record that does not reflect scientific truth. Fabrication and falsification are serious academic fraudulent behaviors, and they may have a negative impact on the authors’ affiliate, funding sponsor, and employers. EnPress Publisher will not hesitate to reject manuscripts with suspicion of academic fraud.
All publisher-introduced changes are highlighted to authors at the proof stage and any errors are ideally identified by authors and corrected by the publisher before the final publication. For any errors in published articles discovered by readers, authors, editors, et al., please contact the journal editor.
It should be noted that errors made by editors are called erratum, and errors made by authors are called corrigendum. However, erratum and corrigendum have no influence on the research logic and the correctness of the results.
EnPress Publisher will only issue an erratum or corrigendum for a published article after receiving approval and instructions from the editor.
If authors change their mind and decide not to pursue publication of their paper with the journal, they must write a letter addressed to the journal editors, explaining the reason(s) of the submission withdrawal. Consent of all co-authors must be obtained for author-initiated submission withdrawal. The decision to withdraw a submission will eventually rest with the journal editors, including the Editor-in-Chief.
It is relatively more difficult to withdraw a paper that has been processed for peer review or is undergoing peer review compared with withdrawing a new submission because the editors and reviewers have expended much time and energy in the editorial process and manuscript evaluation, respectively. To withdraw a paper that has been processed for peer review, authors should clearly argue their case on scientific reasons; only valid and sound reasons will be accepted. Authors will also be required to pay a penalty fee (USD200). Authors are advised to keep in mind that an article should only be withdrawn if the authors detect significant errors or flaws, as it is not an acceptable practice to withdraw an article after it has been sent for peer review. Once the approval for submission withdrawal is granted, the submission will be removed from the journal’s online submission system, and a confirmation email of submission withdrawal will be sent to the authors. The withdrawal process is considered to be complete once authors receive the confirmation of withdrawal from the journal’s editorial office.
Submission withdrawal is also possible for accepted papers that have not been formally published, including newly accepted papers and articles in press.
The withdrawal of an accepted paper and article in press is usually editor-initiated. The reasons for withdrawing an accepted paper and article in press are similar to those of retracting a published article (see “Retraction”), and at this stage the article will not be arranged for article production or finalization. A panel will be organized to investigate misconduct allegations. If the allegations are proven true with supporting evidence, the accepted paper or article in press will be marked for withdrawal, and any appeals regarding the panel’s decision will have to be made to the publisher within 14 days of the decision date. In the absence of an appeal from the authors within the 14 days, the submission will be removed from the journal’s online submission system, and a confirmation email of submission withdrawal will be sent to the authors.
Readers can contact the editorial office to report allegations of possible academic misconduct, i.e., ethical violations in research and publication regardless of the severity of these issues. Misconducts and violations include plagiarism, falsification of research, data fabrication, submitting manuscripts of others as one’s own, submission of the same manuscript to different publication venues at the same time, and breached intellectual property rights. Once the suspected misconduct and ethical violation is brought to the attention of the publisher, the journal editors will organize an investigation and authors are required to cooperate in the investigation. A panel will be organized to investigate the allegations. If the allegations are proven true with supporting evidence, the published article will be marked for retraction both in HTML and PDF, and a notification email regarding the panel’s decision will be sent to all authors of the work. Any appeals regarding the panel’s decision will have to be made to the publisher within 14 days of the decision date. In the absence of an appeal from the authors within the 14 days, a confirmation email of article retraction will be sent to the authors.
Authors should note that the paid Article Processing Charges will not be refunded if their article is retracted or withdrawn on the grounds of academic misconduct and ethical violation in research and publication.
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