1. Editorial Board: journals have editorial boards whose members are recognized experts in the field; the full names and affiliations of the members is provided on the journal’s web site; and journals provide contact information for the editorial board on the journal’s web site. The editorial boards finally assesse article in a double blind manner
2. Authors and Authors responsibilities: Authors are obliged to participate in peer review process; all authors have significantly contributed to the research; the author(s) are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes; and authors should provide a list of references, financial support; it should also be forbidden to publish same research in more than one journal.
3. Peer-review process: all of a journal’s content subjected to peer-review; the process is clearly described on the journal’s web site; we tried that all judgments and findings in the peer-review process to be objective. Reviewers should have no conflict of interest; reviewers were from different university of Iran and they are review article based on the standard review forms.
4. Publication ethics: we take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred; we all the best to prevent research misconducts; in the event that we are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct we shall deal with allegations appropriately; the journal have available guidelines for retracting or correcting articles when needed.
5. Copyright and access: copyright and licensing information have been clearly described on the journal’s web site. If we exposed articles which was previously published, we refer this article to the ethic committee of higher education ministry of Iran
6. Archiving: articles were index in local and international database including Google scholar, and SID (a local database). We are also trying to index our journal to the international database
7. Ownership and management: Journal of Research in psychological Health was official journal of Kharazmi university which was directed by faculty members of psychology group. The whole information about ownership and management is clearly indicated on the journal’s web site.
- The web site: journal’s web site was approved by Yektaweb company (it is a well-known internet company in Islamic republic of Iran). We are followed by the legislation of Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance regarding the contents of our web site.
9. Publishing schedule: we publish article in every season. We try our best to publish electronically article which was finally accepted by the reviewers.
10. Name of the journal: the journal name is unique and it is not easily confused with other journal(s) or that might mislead potential authors and readers about the journal’s origin or association with other journals.
11. This journal accepted the CC by Liscence. this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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