Open Access Policy
The Journal of Contemporary Persian Literature is an open access journal, meaning that all of its content is available to users free of charge. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose without prior permission from the publisher or author.
The journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports the greater global exchange of knowledge.
Copyright Statement: The copyright of the articles belongs to the authors, and the authors own and possess the copyright to their work.
License
The Journal of Contemporary Persian Literature is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Ethics Policy
The two quarterly journals of “Contemporary Persian Literature” are committed to adhering to the principles of professional ethics. Although this journal has not yet become a full member of the International Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), it respects the rules of ethics in publications, is subject to the rules of (COPE) and follows the executive regulations of the Law on Prevention and Combating Fraud in Scientific Works.
Chart of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in Persian (view)
Explanation of the principles of the International Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (view)
The Charter of Research Ethics of the Publications of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (view)
Authors’ responsibilities
Among the articles submitted to the two quarterly journals “Contemporary Persian Literature”, an article will be selected and published that has not been previously published in other scientific journals (Persian or other languages), is the result of original research, and has accurate sources and citations.
The author is ultimately responsible for the complete content of the submitted article. The findings of the article should be fully reported and full care should be taken in presenting the findings and interpreting and analyzing them. The article should contain sufficient details and sources so that other researchers can access the same data set to replicate the research.
Before submitting the article, any potential conflicts of interest that may affect the outcome or interpretation of the research findings or the selection of editors and reviewers should be discussed, and the financial sources supporting the research should be mentioned in the article.
Respect the confidential evaluation process and prevent any disclosure of the author's identity to the reviewers and vice versa. In other words, the article should be free of any self-disclosure information, so that the reviewer cannot identify the author.
Ensuring the presence of the name, information and role of each author (responsible author and co-author(s)) and the absence of names other than those of the researchers involved in the research.
Maintaining and protecting the privacy, human dignity, well-being and freedom of research participants and mentioning any risk that may be posed to humans or other organisms by the research.
The author shall notify the journal of any error or inaccuracy in his/her article at any time and shall take action to correct it or withdraw the article.
The author(s) shall explicitly declare the authenticity and originality of the article, the absence of plagiarism, and publication in other journals.
Examples of unethical publishing and research behavior:
Fabrication: Reporting untrue material and presenting fictitious data or results as laboratory results, experimental studies, or personal findings. Unrealistic recording of what did not happen or shifting the results of different studies
Falsification: Recording and presenting research results in a way that manipulates the details of the research implementation or the data collection process, or deletes or changes data, or exaggerates some small results in order to hide larger facts (juicy quotes) so that the research results achieve specific goals or the presented results are not in doubt.
Plagiarism: Closely adopting the ideas and expressions of other authors, copying the expression of ideas, structural similarities in writing, or attributing the ideas and results of others without proper citation, or introducing it as an original scientific research.
Scientific rental: Using another person to conduct research by the author(s) and interfering shortly after completing the research and publishing it under his/her own name.
Unreal attribution: Unreal attribution of the author(s) to an institution, center, or educational or research group that did not play a role in the original research.
Duplicate submission: An article or part of it that has been published in another journal (domestic or foreign) or is in the process of being reviewed and published.
Overlapping publication: Publishing the data and findings of your previous articles with slight changes in another article with a new title.
The two quarterly journals "Contemporary Persian Literature" are trying to review all articles submitted to the journal system through similarity-finding systems before entering the refereeing process. It is worth mentioning that the right to evaluate and prosecute cases of scientific plagiarism for the two quarterly journals "Contemporary Persian Literature" is reserved through the Samim Noor similarity-finding system.
Access to the Samim Noor similarity-finding system
**Read the "Authors' Guide" and "Frequently Asked Questions" sections for writing and submitting articles.
Responsibilities of the Director (Director responsibilities))
Following free access to information to the journal and expanding its publication and dissemination.
Monitoring and following up on the work of the editorial board and editor of the journal.
Not interfering in the scientific refereeing process of articles.
Not interfering in the scientific decisions of the editorial board and editor of the journal.
Respecting the material and moral rights of the authors, editor, editorial board, referees, and executive staff.
Final approval of the materials submitted to the journal for printing and publication in terms of law.
Responsibilities of the editor, secretary and editorial board members
Responsibilities of the Editor, Secretary, and Editorial Board Members
Preserving the freedom and discretion of the journal editor to independently perform his/her duties, such as rejecting or accepting manuscripts submitted to the editorial board and observing issues related to the scientific merits of the article, including preserving material and moral rights, the originality of the research, and the opinions of referees and editors.
Efforts to promote and implement the laws and guidelines of research ethics and health.
Receiving documentation related to the following conditions for accepting the article from the author(s):
Granting the right to publish the article in the university journal.
Declaring possible conflicts of interest.
Selecting competent referees based on their field of expertise, scientific and work experience, and respecting the author(s)'s reasonable and logical requests for the review of the article by specific referees.
Avoiding revealing the information and characteristics of the author(s) and referees in the process of evaluating the article and refraining from providing information about the article and discussing its details with others.
Prevent any conflict of interest in the review process, which could potentially affect the acceptance and publication of submitted articles.
Carefully review works accused of research misconduct received from referees or other means, and if necessary, take action based on the "Research misconduct guidelines".
Steps to deal with unethical publishing and research behavior:
Inform the journal's editorial board and send a letter to the responsible author requesting an explanation, without judgmental behavior.
Allocate an appropriate opportunity for the author(s) accused of "unethical publishing and research behavior" to respond and follow up on the confirmed cases and violations to the last stage.
Refer the matter to the editorial board in case of receiving unacceptable explanations from the author for a final decision on acceptance or rejection of the article.
In accordance with the final decision of the editorial board;
A written warning to the author of the article and a reminder of the journal's publishing policy before publication, or a request to correct the report and publish the author's apology text in the next issue of the journal.
Warning the responsible author and rejecting any other work by the offending author.
Publishing an apology statement in the next issue of the printed version of the journal and mentioning it in the online version of the article in which fraud and plagiarism have been proven (Retraction).
Strive to continuously improve the quality and ensure the integrity and honesty of the journal's content and respect for the journal's organization, including: (readers, authors, privileged reviewers, responsible director, internal director, editorial board staff and publisher).
Reviewing all received articles within a reasonable period of time.
Reviewers' responsibilities
Assisting in the qualitative, content and scientific review of articles in order to improve and enhance the quality of the journal.
Applying professional knowledge and expertise in the subject area of the article and announcing the decision not to accept the article to the journal's editor in case of a conflict of interest, including shared, financial, organizational, personal interests or lack of time for review.
To clearly and clearly announce a specialist and corrective opinion, based on scientific documentation and sufficient reasoning, within a specified time limit to the editor of the journal and the author(s), and to refrain from applying personal, professional, racial, and religious opinions in the review of the article.
Avoid using information, discussions, interpretations, and ideas obtained in the review process of the article or unpublished information of the author(s), for personal gain.
Respect the confidential evaluation process and refrain from using information, discussions, interpretations, and ideas obtained in the review process or using new data and concepts of the article for or against one's own or others' research, or to criticize or discredit the author(s).
Assist the editor of the journal in preparing a report on "Unethical Publishing and Research Behavior" of articles received for review.
Inform the editor of the journal when there is a delay in reviewing the article and request more time or the selection of another reviewer.
Responsibilities of the Scientific Publications Office
To determine and clearly announce its publishing policies, especially in relation to the independence of the editorial board's decision-making, publishing ethics, protection of intellectual property and copyright, conflicts of interest, duties of authors, reviewers, editor, specialist secretary and editorial board, the refereeing and decision-making process, appeals and complaints, preservation of scientific documents of the decision-making process, preservation of information of authors and reviewers, correction or deletion of accepted articles, and resolution of disputes between complainants and defendants of "unethical publishing and research behavior"
Monitoring and following up on complaints of research violations for the journal.
To help ensure the originality and research soundness of articles published in the journal.
Citation method
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Printing and publishing costs of the quarterly journal "Contemporary Persian Literature" (click)
