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Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

"Nature and Science" is a peer-reviewed Open Access international scientific journal operating on the basis of the Azerbaijan Science Center. The published article is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. It is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer and the publisher. Our ethic statements are based on Elsevier recommendations and COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.



Editor’s Responsibilities

1. The editor is responsible for deciding which of the papers submitted to the journal will be published. The editor will evaluate manuscripts without regard to the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy. The decision will be based on the paper’s importance, originality and clarity, and the study’s validity and its relevance to the journal's scope. Current legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism should also be considered.

2. The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

3. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper will not be used by the editor or the members of the editorial board for their own research purposes without the author's explicit written consent.

Reviewers' Responsibilities: 

1. The peer-reviewing process assists the editor and the editorial board in making editorial decisions and may also serve the author in improving the paper.

2. Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and withdraw from the review process.

3. Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

4. Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

5. Reviewers should identify cases in which relevant published work referred to in the paper has not been cited in the reference section. They should point out whether observations or arguments derived from other publications are accompanied by the respective source. Reviewers will notify the editor of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

6. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the papers.

Authors' Responsibilities: 

1. Authors of original research reports should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

2. Authors could be asked to provide the raw data of their study together with the paper for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable. In any event, authors should ensure accessibility of such data to other competent professionals for at least ten years after publication (preferably via an institutional or subject-based data repository or other data center), provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and legal rights concerning proprietary data do not preclude their release.

3. Authors will submit only entirely original works, and will appropriately cite or quote the work and/or words of others. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work should also be cited.

4. In general, papers describing essentially the same research should not be published in more than one journal. Submitting the same paper to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Manuscripts that have been published as copyrighted material elsewhere cannot be submitted. In addition, manuscripts under review by the journal should not be resubmitted to copyrighted publications. However, by submitting a manuscript, the author(s) retains the rights to the published material. 

5. Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. The corresponding author ensures that all contributing co-authors and no uninvolved persons are included in the author list. The corresponding author will also verify that all co-authors have approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

6. All authors should include a statement disclosing any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that may be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

7.  When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and to cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper in form of an erratum.


 About printing

  • Publishing an article in a magazine is paid;
  • Authors are not charged any fees for processing articles.
  • One journal is assigned to each author per published article.

    Peer Review Process

The opinion procedure is carried out according to the following requirements:
Before entering the editorial office, the article is checked for compliance with the opinion rule. For this, the article is passed through StrikePlagiarism anti-plagiarism software. After the editorial review, the manuscript that meets the requirements is sent to two specialized reviewers from the journal's editorial board for scientific review in accordance with the "double-blind review" rule. Reviewers review the manuscript and return it to the editorial office within 15 working days. Comments submitted by reviewers are reviewed by the editors and authors are given one of the following recommendations:
 - The article was recommended for publication;
 - The article should be amended;
 - The article was not fit for print.
Article recommended for publication: The manuscript is reviewed by the editors to ensure compliance with the editors' printing requirements, and the author is notified of its acceptance.
The article should be revised: The author is informed that after making the recommended necessary revisions, he must submit a new version of the manuscript to the editors.
Article not eligible for publication: If the article is not eligible for publication, the author is sent a submitted feedback report and is duly informed that his article will not be published in the journal.


Open Access Statement

The journal is an Open-Access peer-reviewed international scientific publication operating on the principle that the free presentation of research works to the public supports a wider and global exchange of knowledge. Access to the full texts of scientific articles is provided in the Archives section of the journal's official website (https://aem.az/tebiet-elm-arxiv). Each article published in the journal is published and published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license.


Originality and plagiarism

The editorial office accepts only original articles from authors and publishes them in the journal.
Plagiarized articles are not accepted by the editorial office.
Plagiarism in all its forms is considered unethical behavior and its use is unacceptable.





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