Ethical Policies
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Editorial Board and Editorial Responsibility
The IJAEP has an international editorial board including scientists in sport science. You may find the latest updated board from the following link:
The Journal Editorial Team: Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Team, Managing Editor and Reviewers. The editor-in-chief and editors of IJAEP are fully responsible to approve or reject articles based on standard process of peer review system.
Name of journal
The International Journal of Applied Exercise Physiology (IJAEP).
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Ownership and management
IJAEP is a non-profit scholarly journal.
Publishing schedule
Frequency: Quarterly
Authors’ responsibilities
The Editors of the International Journal of Applied Exercise Physiology (IJAEP) expect authors to have made an important scientific contribution to the study and to be thoroughly familiar with the original data of research. The Editors also expect authors to have read the complete manuscript and to take responsibility for the content and completeness of the manuscript and to understand that if the paper, or part of the paper, is found to be faulty or fraudulent, then he/she will share its responsibility with his/her coauthors. All funding sources supporting the work and all institutional or corporate affiliations must be disclosed in the manuscript. The journals of the IJAEP accept only papers that are original work, not part of which has been submitted for publication elsewhere except as brief abstracts.
Corresponding author needs to register at official website of journal and submit the article via his/her own account on the journal website. A notification email for new submission will be sent to the author in the article and corresponding authors is responsible for having ensured that coauthors agree with submission at this journal. Any changes to the article and author list after submission, such as a change the name of authors, order of authors’ names, deleting names, etc. need to be approved by editor-in-chief.
Authors need to follow-up the guidelines of the journal prior to submission. (Author guideline)
Peer-review process
All manuscripts after pre-review process by managing editor will be sent for minimum two international reviewers (at the same area of research). The review system of this journal is based on the online review system (OJS) and all processes of submission and review for publication could be tracked by authors. Discussion section for any comment is installed on author’s panel.
The reviewers of this journal are using online comment system inside the journal system to commenting and rate to articles. There are four types of decisions including: Accepted, Accept with major corrections, Accepted with minor corrections and Decline.
Publication ethics
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) rules are approved by the journal editorial team.
: https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines
Correspondent author is the only person that requests for article withdraw anytime during review and before online publication.
Plagiarism: Taking materials (including tables, figures, and data; or extended text passages) from others’ works and submitting it as one’s own is considered plagiarism and is not permitted. All manuscripts will be checked by Plagiarism Software before review process.
Human and animal Ethics: Authors using humans, animals, or fetal tissue in their experiments should submit the ethical approval from their organization or institute.
Copyright and Access
Published articles of this journal will available as Open Access for download. This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Archiving:
The contents of the journal are archived at the international databases as the following
Retraction & Article Removal
The retraction of an article by its authors or editorial board needs to be approved by journal Editor-in-chief.
A retraction note titled “Retraction: [article title]” signed by the authors and/or the editor is published in the paginated part of a subsequent issue of the journal and listed in the contents list.
In the electronic version, a link is made to the original article.
The HTML version of the document will be replaced by the text: "Article Retracted" or "Article retracted for legal reasons".
*Retraction of a published article (or Withdraw after the review process) for personal reasons and nonacceptable reasons by authors need to be approved by Editor-in-chief. It is required to send an official letter signed by all authors to the journal for this purpose. At this situation, the corresponding author needs to pay a penalty fee (250 EUR).
