Principles of Transparency
Peer-review process
All submitted articles are evaluated at the submission to meet the structural and subject principles of ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences. The matched articles will gone under a double-blinded peer-review process by at least 3 reviewers (expert in the field who are not part of the journal’s editorial staff) who are selected by the Editorial Board members according to their field specialties. The Editorial Board members have the final responsibility to select the articles.
Governing body
ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences is under the scientific control of Editorial Board whose members are recognized experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. Some executive roles of the Editorial Board members are delegated to the Editor-in-Chief who is well-known in the journal’s scope.
Editorial team
ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences is under the scientific supervision of the Editorial Team whose members are all experts with high number of publications in their field.
Author fees/Access
There are No Fees or Charges at all for submission, reviewing and publishing processes in ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences.
ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences follows the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing.
Copyright
The content of ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License. To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, we are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants you such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.
Process for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct
Publisher and editors of ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences are reasonable to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. In doing so, ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences follows COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.
Ownership and management
ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences is owned by SRPH, Iran, and is managed and published by YektaPub Co.
Conflicts of interests
All ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences Editorial Board members and the Editor-in-Chief submitted articles are gone under the same reviewing process as the other authors gone. In the cases that a reviewer suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a submitted manuscript or a reader suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article (all authors are filling the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest at the submission time) ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences will follow COPE’s guidelines.
Revenue sources/Advertising/Direct marketing
ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences is financially supported completely by SRPH, Iran, and has no other sources for earning funds. ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences accepts No advertisements in the site or even as a report article.
Publishing schedule/Archiving
ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences is published 4 issues per year. All the content from the beginning to the end will be available for ever on ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences exclusive website. Also ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences is included at SID and has the plan to enter to Scopus and Clarivate databases.
Retraction Policy
Alkhas supports the view that publishing ethics are of the utmost importance and will strive to maintain the integrity of the scholarly record.Occasionally, there are exceptional circumstances that result in a retraction of a published article: violations of ethical conduct, which include, but are not limited to, plagiarism, multiple submissions of the same article, fraudulent use of data, and invalid claims of authorship. Retractions may be requested by authors or the editor of a journal, and such requests for retraction are investigated thoroughly, following COPE’s (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines. Should the investigation lead to a retraction of the article, a retraction notice is published in the next available issue. In the online version of the retracted article, the retraction notice will be attached to the original version, and the title and abstract of article will be retained in the HTML version. PDF of the document will be removed, but the metadata (title, abstract and authors) remain with “Retracted” in front of the full title.
All submitted articles are evaluated at the submission to meet the structural and subject principles of ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences. The matched articles will gone under a double-blinded peer-review process by at least 3 reviewers (expert in the field who are not part of the journal’s editorial staff) who are selected by the Editorial Board members according to their field specialties. The Editorial Board members have the final responsibility to select the articles.
Governing body
ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences is under the scientific control of Editorial Board whose members are recognized experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. Some executive roles of the Editorial Board members are delegated to the Editor-in-Chief who is well-known in the journal’s scope.
Editorial team
ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences is under the scientific supervision of the Editorial Team whose members are all experts with high number of publications in their field.
Author fees/Access
There are No Fees or Charges at all for submission, reviewing and publishing processes in ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences.
ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences follows the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing.
Copyright
The content of ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License. To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, we are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants you such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.
Process for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct
Publisher and editors of ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences are reasonable to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. In doing so, ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences follows COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.
Ownership and management
ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences is owned by SRPH, Iran, and is managed and published by YektaPub Co.
Conflicts of interests
All ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences Editorial Board members and the Editor-in-Chief submitted articles are gone under the same reviewing process as the other authors gone. In the cases that a reviewer suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a submitted manuscript or a reader suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article (all authors are filling the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest at the submission time) ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences will follow COPE’s guidelines.
Revenue sources/Advertising/Direct marketing
ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences is financially supported completely by SRPH, Iran, and has no other sources for earning funds. ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences accepts No advertisements in the site or even as a report article.
Publishing schedule/Archiving
ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences is published 4 issues per year. All the content from the beginning to the end will be available for ever on ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences exclusive website. Also ALKHAS;The Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biological Sciences is included at SID and has the plan to enter to Scopus and Clarivate databases.
Retraction Policy
Alkhas supports the view that publishing ethics are of the utmost importance and will strive to maintain the integrity of the scholarly record.Occasionally, there are exceptional circumstances that result in a retraction of a published article: violations of ethical conduct, which include, but are not limited to, plagiarism, multiple submissions of the same article, fraudulent use of data, and invalid claims of authorship. Retractions may be requested by authors or the editor of a journal, and such requests for retraction are investigated thoroughly, following COPE’s (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines. Should the investigation lead to a retraction of the article, a retraction notice is published in the next available issue. In the online version of the retracted article, the retraction notice will be attached to the original version, and the title and abstract of article will be retained in the HTML version. PDF of the document will be removed, but the metadata (title, abstract and authors) remain with “Retracted” in front of the full title.