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Asia Review Guidelines for Research Ethics

 

Date of Enactment: February 16th, 2011

Date of Revision: May 1st, 2020

 

Article 1. (Purpose) The purpose of these guidelines is to set the standards and principles for researchers to abide by in relation to submission and publication of articles to Asia Review, the academic journal of Seoul National University Asia Center.

 

Article 2. (Basic Regulations for Researchers)

1) Researchers must follow the basic principles of producing the milestones of academic research and processing the deliverables. The basic principles here refer to integrity and fairness in deriving ideas, reporting research results, and publishing research results.

2) Researchers must not publish manuscripts that have already been published elsewhere.

3) Researchers must disclose any potential conflict of interests at the time of submission. Examples include funding or supporting of research funds, employment, consultation, compensation, paid hearsay, stock ownership, patent application/registration, etc.

4) Researchers must refrain from irregularities such as ‘fabrication’, ‘falsification’, ‘plagiarism’, ‘redundant use of data’, ‘inappropriate authorship’, and ‘undisclosed conflicts of interest’.

① ‘Fabrication’ refers to the act of making up data or research results that do not exist and documenting or recording them.

② ‘Falsification’ refers to the act of deliberately manipulating research by changing or omitting research data or results.

③ ‘Plagiarism’ refers to the act of misusing the ideas, research processes, results, or expressions of others without appropriate citations.

④ ‘Redundant use of sources’ refers to the act of publishing sources that researchers have already published, without appropriate approval or citation.

⑤ ‘Inappropriate authorship’ refers to the act of not listing an academic contributor to the research as an author without any justifiable reason or listing someone who has not contributed to the research as an author by way of appreciation or respectful treatment.

⑥ ‘Undisclosed conflicts of interest’ refers to the act of omitting the disclosure of any interested party or institution.

 

4) Researchers must report to the editorial board in an appropriate manner if any problem related to the clauses in this article has occurred or could occur.

 

Article 3. (Research Ethics Committee)

1) To consider matters related to research ethics, the journal places the research ethics committee.

2) The research ethics committee comprises of no more than five members including the director of SNUAC, the editor-in-chief, and editors.

3) The chair of the research ethics committee is also served by the editor-in-chief or elected from the committee members.

 

Article 4. (The Operation of Research Ethics Committee)

1) The research ethics committee is called to meeting upon the request of the editor-in-chief or upon the judgment of the chair to be necessary.

2) The research ethics committee meeting is validated by the presence of the majority of registered members and resolved by agreement of the majority of members present. A proxy statement is acknowledged as presence in the validation of the meeting, but does not hold any voting right.

3) Any committee member who has directly participated or indirectly involved in the research that is subject to the research ethics committee’s consideration may not participate in the consideration related to that research.

4) The requested person may request for a recusal if there is any objective reason to judge that a fair consideration cannot be expected of certain members of the research ethics committee. Upon such a request, the committee must decide without delay.

5) If any committee member has the reason to expect difficulty in conducting fair consideration, the committee member himself or herself can avoid the case in question, and the committee must decide upon this matter without delay.

6) The chair of the research ethics committee can ask the lead author or principal investigator of the research under examination to submit or report certain data and sources if necessary for consideration.

7) All members of the research ethics committee must protect the confidentiality of all information related to their consideration.

 

Article 5. (The Function of Research Ethics Committee) The research ethics committee considers the following items.

1) Matters of research ethics as raised for papers related to Asia Review

2) Well-intentioned accusations about the research integrity of papers related to Asia Review

3) Investigation of research irregularities in papers related to Asia Review

4) Other matters related to research ethics as brought up by the chair

 

Article 6. (Code of Ethics for Editors)

1) Editors must treat the manuscripts submitted to Asia Review for publication fairly, and must commission the evaluation of the paper to reviewers with expertise in the respective field and fair judgment. When commissioning, editors must make sure that reviewers and authors do not have same affiliations.

2) Editors must not disclose information on the author or content of the manuscript to persons other than the reviewer until publication of the manuscript is decided.

 

Article 7. (Treating Violation of Research Ethics)

1) If any paper related to Asia Review is accused of violating research ethics, the research ethics committee conducts appropriate investigation and treatment.

2) The investigation on violation of research ethics must be kept confidential.

3) Those accused of violating research ethics can hold the right to object to the investigation results of the committee. The committee must guarantee such a light.

4) The investigation result should be reported to the editorial committee, and the report will be kept by the committee for three years.

5) If by investigation the violation of research ethics is verified. it should be announced and treated as the following.

① Manuscripts that have violated research ethics may not be published on Asia Review. In case of a paper that has already been published, it is to be deleted from the list of papers on Asia Review and the editorial board must announce this fact on SNUAC homepage and related academic institutions.

② Authors of papers that have violated research ethics are prohibited from submitting manuscripts for three years.

 

Article 8. (Activities for Complying with Research Ethics and Preventing Irregularities)

1) When submitting manuscripts through the journal homepage, authors must fill out the ethical declarations form that is available on the homepage. If the author does not submit the form, the manuscript is rejected. However, when submitting manuscripts through e-mail, authors are to submit the ethical declarations only when their manuscripts are accepted for publication.

2) Plagiarism checker tests are run during the review period, and the editorial board examines the results to reflect the similarity index on the decision to publish the papers.

3) For strict and fair results, Asia Review utilizes the plagiarism checker provided by Korea Citation Index (KCI) (https://check.kci.go.kr/).

 

Article 9. Any matter not hereby stated should be handled according to custom.

 

Additional clause: These guidelines are enacted from May 1st, 2020.

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