Ethics:
Publication Ethics
The International Conference on Environment, Geoscience, Water (ENGW) is committed to maintaining high standards through a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies.
Any infringements of professional ethical codes, such as plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, bogus claims of authorship,
should be taken very seriously by the editors with zero tolerance. The "Engineering World"
follows the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE),
and follows the COPE Flowcharts for Resolving Cases of Suspected Misconduct.
The submitted manuscript should not have been previously published in any form and must
not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Please find further information on Publication Ethics at
"Editorial Workflow" (Menu item "Editorial Workflow")
Terms of Collaboration
1). COPYRIGHT: By submitting a paper the author understands that its copyright is transferred to the Conference. The Conference
may publish it at their discretion and the author may not resubmit it anywhere else. Based on this copyright transfer of the paper,
the Conference is entitled to publish the paper ir not.
2). After the Review process is completed by the Assoc. Editor and the Reviewers,
it is no longer allowed for the authors to withdraw their paper.
3). PEER REVIEW: All submitted papers are subject to strict peer-review process by at least
\ three international reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular paper.
The factors that are taken into account in review are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability and language.
The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.
4). If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.
5). Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
6). Articles may be rejected without review if they are obviously not suitable for publication.
7). The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
8). The reviewers evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious
belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
9). The staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to
anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
10). Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express
their views clearly with supporting arguments.
11). Peer review assists the publisher in making editorial decisions
and through the editorial communications with the experts form the scientific board ant the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
12). Manuscripts received for review are treated as confidential documents and are reviewed by anonymous staff.
13). A reviewer should also call to the publisher's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any
other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
14). Authors of contributions and studies research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective
discussion of its significance.
15). 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.
16). The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words
of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
17). Submitting the same manuscript to more than one publication concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
18). Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception,
design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study.
19). All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
20). The International Conference on Environment, Geoscience, Water (ENGW) does not require from the authors to submit any copyright form.
An author can withdraw a paper until 30 days after the paper submission. After these 30 days no withdrawal is allowed.
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