Discovery Scientific Society Statement

Discovery Scientific Society’s foremost objective is to producing ethically-rich & readers-attracting scientific articles in industry-standard. Each submitted manuscripts should adapt the described policy of Discovery Scientific Society. Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)’s regarding manuscript publication principles very carefully followed by Discovery Scientific Society in every instance of practice of core documents. Their guidance covers the up-to-date principles on handling publication concerns such as:- issues on data integrity, misconduct allegations, integrity of peer-review, plagiarism & overlap, conflicts interest and other all issues related to manuscript publication.

Discovery Scientific Society will not interfere with independence and decision making of editorial board. While the presence of legal, potential conflicts, ethical issue concerns in the submitted manuscript, the editorial team independently reject-outright that particular submission. The study which does not confirm to Discovery Scientific Society’s ethical policies might be withdrawn immediately by the publisher from the initial-submission stage itself.

All submitted works are checked by Discovery Scientific Society to endorse that the manuscripts are adapt with ethical guidelines of publication. Our experts from editorial-team is performing the checks manually whether the manuscripts are ethically sound or not. Human being is the confirmer and decision-maker whenever the potential issues are highlighted in study. No automation is involved in ethical checks. Where the study does not meet the ethical policies or potential issue is flagged on check, in every cases, an editorial team is consulted.

Publication Ethics Statement

Discovery Scientific Society’s journals obey & follow the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We plentifully adhere to COPE Core Practices and to COPE Best Practice Guidelines, except Article Withdrawal Policy. Our article withdrawal policy is explained in detail under Article Withdrawal & Substitution Policy.

Our editors & editorial members implements a hard peer-review procedure with strong ethical issues & policies towards enhancement of high-quality science & technical studies to the arena of research publication. Based on the zero-tolerance procedure, our editors of Discovery Scientific Society takes very serious implementation against falsification of data, plagiarism of scientific-content, and inappropriate author credential, with the rules & regulations of publishing ethical issues.

Ethical Guidelines for Authors

During the submission of articles to Discovery Scientific Society’s journals, the authors should confirm that their articles are rich in ethical principles and meet current research-industry standards that are guided in policies of Discovery Scientific Society’s journals.

Researchers’ interest to publishing their manuscripts in Discovery Scientific Society’s journals must accept the following terms:

• Authors / Researchers should disclose the conflicts of interest in the manuscript during submission to the journal.
• Authors / Researchers must present research results of their work accurately and include a discussion about the importance of their results.
• In the manuscript, Authors / Researchers must present methodology data with appropriate & adequate details.
• If requested, the raw data from authors should be readily accessible for the journal editors & referees.
• The researchers are requested to confirm necessary procedures are taken, subsequently that the full raw data retained after the publication, in reasonable time.
• Multiple submission (submitting manuscript to multiple journals at simultaneous time) attitude is not accepted & tolerated.
• If the Authors / Researchers found any mistakes, false, inaccuracies, miscalculation and any errors in scientific issues after the publication of their article, they should be punctually conveyed the issues to the respective journal editors, for consequent actions.
• Manipulation of image, fabrication of data, and plagiarized data are not accepted.
• For formerly published data (includes illustrations, questionnaire and tables etc…,), the author must acquire the authorization to publish from the patent / copyright owner.

This list of terms are not comprehensive, and the authors / researchers must be conscious of all indigenous regulations and recognised norms within data publication.

If required, the research funders or authors' organization must be communicated & investigated by our in-house editorial team for any allegations regarding publication misconduct. If any proof for misconduct of publication is identified, proper action shall be taken towards correction of article or retraction of published study. While publishing with Discovery Scientific Society’s journals, Authors / Researchers are anticipated to obey with the best practices about ethical publication.

Authorship

Authorship is a specific manner of assigning responsibility and giving credit scores for intellectual work. Authorship credit should be based on substantial contribution to conception and design, execution, or analysis and interpretation of data. Authorship is vital to reputation and academic promotion and provides support to the people concerned as well as to the strength and popularity of their group. We follow the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.

Plagiarism, Data Fabrication and Image Manipulation

Discovery Scientific Society won't accept or tolerate plagiarism. Without providing proper credential to the main (first) source, the imitation and replication of content, theme, concepts, illustrations or content from other source, or from the author’s own published articles are includes in plagiarism.

Reuse of the copied content from other source(s) should mention within the quote symbols and the primary source should be cited. If a work’s blueprint or language or the article design & structure has been enthused by earlier works, these work/research should be clearly cited.

All Discovery Scientific Society manuscript submissions are evaluated for plagiarism through the standard software (Plagiarism Checker X and Grammarly) for clean-data. The submission will be rejected, if plagiarism identified in the progress of peer review procedure. The plagiarised manuscript will not proceed further and subjected to rejection as per our ethical policies.

The main illustration files should not be subjected for adjustment or manipulation at anyhow which might lead towards information misconception. Uneven / asymmetrical manipulation covers; 1) outline, overview, improvement, alteration, removing and fine-tuning features of the original illustration; 2) combining separate illustrations as a single image purposely; 3) tuning of color, enhancement of color balance, brightness adjustment and contrast modification

At the time of peer-review progress, our members must reject the submitted work, if the illustration manipulation is found. We might retract or correct the article, if the illustration manipulation is identified after the regular publication.

Submission data should be novel & unique and not incorrectly picked, worked, designed or improved. This consists 1) to the implication of conclusion significance, omission of data-points; 2) inappropriate designing of data; 3) selection of research reports which support a specific finding on the expense of inconsistent data; 4) intentionally choosing particular investigation tool & method to enhance a specific conclusion.

Ethical Guidelines to involve Human Subjects

While proceeding the original research that includes subjects, tissues, materials and data related to human, the researchers must state & declare that the experimental investigations were carried-out following the guideline of Declaration of Helsinki of 1975 of revised rule of 2013-version. Based on the, 23rd declaration, appropriate ethics committee approval or local institutional review board (IRB) approval should be acquired before commencing the research to confirm whether the report or research obey the international and national guidelines. At-least a minimum criterion, a declaration including approval date of research, code for project identification and institutional review board or ethics committee name should be stated in the title of “Ethical approval” or “Institutional Review Board Statement” of the research article.

Example for an ethical declaration: - “Before the participation in the research / study, all subjects given their informed consent for inclusion. According with the Declaration of Helsinki, the work / research was conducted and the research protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of XXX (Project identification code)."

For the non-interventional works like Social-media study, questionnaires, analysis and surveys, all the participant should be fully informed if the anonymity is assured, why the study is being progressed, how the collected data will be utilized and if there are any risks associated. Before conducting all stages of research which are human-involved, all related ethical issues should be cleared & obtained from respective ethical committee.

For the studies which are all encouraged and conducted under the supervision of local or reginal ethical committees, for those kind of work does not require ethical approval; meantime, the authors must detail the approval regards local or reginal ethical committees. Only when the ethical committee gives relaxation or exemption from the principles of ethics to the particular work based on the nature of methods, then the ethical approval is not necessary for that specific work. Some articles can get enough permission from ‘Institutional Review Board’, for that article must mention the approval details under the heading of ‘Institutional Review Board statement’.

The oral & written informed consent must be gathered from participating population and patients for the publication of work. A detailed describing data about the individual participants should be obtained, but the unique identification & private information of patient or participant should be avoided except the identifiable materials are of relevance to the research (for example, photographs of participants’ face that show a particular symptom). Meantime, the participant & patient eyes should be masked at any condition. Participant & patient’s name or initial or signature or other unique identifiers should not appear in any illustrations & photographs or images. Before the submission of case reports and case studies in any manuscript to the Discovery Scientific Society journals, the authors must obtain the signed informed consent for publication from patients (or their relatives/guardians). As far as possible, the participants’ details should be anonymised e.g., do not mention date of birth, ethnicity, or occupation where they are not relevant to the conclusions. The editors and advisory board members hold the rights-of-rejection of the submitted manuscripts which doesn’t fulfil these criteria.

Ethical Guidelines regards the usage of Animals in Study

The editors & editorial board members will need that the welfares potentially obtained from any-form of research works triggering harm of animals are significant in association to all cost suffered by animals, and those measures trailed are questionable to create felony among readers. Researchers should predominantly certify that their experimentation fulfils with the generally-accepted '3 Rules':

• Animals replacement by alternatives wherever possible,
• Animals usage & animal numbers must be reduced and
• Animals harming procedures to be minimized and research condition refinement

The details of animal husbandry, housing and pain management must be included by the authors in their submitted manuscript.

For more guidance, the authors should refer the guidelines of “Code of Practice for the Housing and Care of Animals Used in Scientific Procedures”, or “American Association for Laboratory Animal Science”, or “European Animal Research Association”.

The vertebrates or higher invertebrates involving research and studies should only be proceed out after getting the appropriate ethics committee approval, if national-legislation needs it. At-least a minimum criterion, a declaration including approval date of research, code for project identification and institutional review panel or ethics commission name should be stated in the title of “Ethical committee approval” or “Institutional Review Board Statement” of the research article. The national and institutional regulations should be obeyed while experimental procedures are carried out. The animal welfare statements must be fulfilled & confirmed with every appropriate legislation while the experimentation is carried-out. As per the guidelines of American Veterinary Medical Association, animals involving in the clinical studies requires routine & regular care with the backing of ethics committee. If the client-owned animals are partaken in the experiment, the client-informed consent should be obtained and it’s certified in the report of research manuscript. If there are any risks & high-risk related with animal experimental-procedures, the owners should be informed fully and that the research work will be published. The veterinary care should be high in standard while the experimentation in progress. The accuracy, correctness and truthfulness of all statements stated in the article are solely responsible by the authors and researchers.

For the studies which are all encouraged and conducted under the supervision of local or reginal ethical committees, for those kind of work does not require ethical approval; meantime, the authors must detail the approval regards local or reginal ethical committees. Only when the ethical committee gives relaxation or exemption from the principles of ethics to the particular work based on the nature of methods, then the ethical approval is not necessary for that specific work. Some articles can get enough permission from ‘Institutional Review Board’, for that article must mention the approval details under the heading of ‘Institutional Review Board statement’.

From the ethical point-of-view, the researchers must provide the declaration justification of the experiment, while utilizing the similar experimental frame-work which is practised by ethical committees. Even the researcher has received ethical approval, they requested to provide declaration.

For reporting research experiments when using live-animals, Discovery Scientific Society suggest the ARRIVE guidelines. As a checklist, ARRIVE-guidelines should be obeyed & used by the researchers and reviewers, which stated at https://arriveguidelines.org/sites/arrive/files/documents/ARRIVE%20Compliance%20Questionnaire.pdf. The editors holds the right to inquire the checklist and to reject the submitted manuscript which do not adhere to ARRIVE-guidelines, to reject manuscript based on animal welfare concerns or animal ethics, if those detailed procedures does not appear to be warranted & justified by the value of the work presented.

Ethical Guidelines regards the usage of Cell Lines in Research

The materials & methodology section of the submitted research, which works with cell lines must detailing the cell-lines & and its origin. For the recognition & usage of cell lines, its provenance & references should be stated either from a published paper or a commercial source. If de novo cell lines from unpublished materials including those gifted from another research laboratory were used in the study, details of ‘institutional review board’ or ‘ethics committee approval should be provided. Written informed consent should be cleared/provided if the cell lines are from human origin.

Example for Cell Lines Ethical Statements:

The ………… cell line was acquired from CCCCC. The ……….. cell line was delivered by CCCCC, Ltd. The …….. cell line was gathered from Dr. CCCCC. The ………. and ………. Reporter-plasmids were acquired from Dr. CCCCC and the ………….. expression vector was gathered from Dr. CCCCC.

Ethical Guidelines regards the usage of Plants & planktons in Research

Either wild or cultivated plant based experimental study including group of plant materials or planktons include bacteria, archaea, algae, protozoa, microscopic fungi, and drifting or floating animals should comply with international, national and institutional guidelines. We recommend that the researchers comply with the "Botanical Survey of India", & "Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora".

For every submitted article, supporting information regarding genetics and source must be included. Rare and non-model plants involving research articles and plant specimens’ records should be deposited in research friendly & openly-accessible natural museum or herbarium. The investigators must include the details of sampled populations, collection details and document the plant part(s) used in the study where ever appropriate.

The editors & advisory board members hold the rights-of-rejection of the submitted manuscripts which doesn’t fulfil these criteria.

Ethical Guidelines for New Taxa

Authors who submitting the article with NEW TAXA should follow the NBA Guidelines: -National Biodiversity Authority Guidelines [vide Section 39 (1-3) and 19(1) of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 read with Rule 14(6)(viii) of the Biological Diversity Rules, 2004 and clause 4(6) of the Regulation on ABS Guidelines notified in November 2014] for Designated Repositories To act as Designated Repositories (DR) for safe deposit of holotypes/isotypes/paratypes of new taxa (Angiosperms, Gymnosperms, Pteridophytes, Bryophytes, Lichens, Macrofungi & Macroalgae) discovered in India, should be deposited in National Designated Repositories such as “Botanical Survey of India (also in its Regional Centres)”, “Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education”, “Forest Research Institute, Dehradun”, “Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore”, and “CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow".

Ethical Guidelines for the collection of samples, specimens, or fossils

Our journal recommend the authors to follow the Nagoya Protocol towards ensure the distribution of assistances arising through the biological resources as well as genetic resources is implemented in the way of reasonable and unbiased international agreement. Based on this benefit-sharing covenant, we need that permitted authorization from the nation of origin should have been acquired, and that licence be accessible for peer-review, for every study/work participate with the bio-samples, bio-specimens and fossils. The authorized museum is the capital to where those genetic samples, fossils and bio-samples to be deposited. Those biological information’s to be readily available for full assessment of researchers as well as those accession details should be submitted for peer-review.

Ethical Guidelines for the Paleontological and archaeological studies

Researchers must gather every artifacts, fossils, ecofacts or human remnants (includes earliest DNA samples) through the equitable and ethical approach. Based on ethical covenant, authors’ needs the authorization from the nation of origin, and that should have been acquired, and accessible for peer-review. For the contribution & participation in significant preparation and acquisition of paleontological and archaeological bio-samples, local experts and professional are encouraged. The provinces where inequality and misuse of sample has been recognised, an exceptional awareness must be required for fossils collection, for example:- gathering of Burmese amber after 2017; and the explanation for collection practice not to be participated in fossil sample production must be detailed in the work, and to be presented based on request. Furthermore, as per "Best Practice Guidelines for Repositing and Disseminating Contextual Data Associated with Vertebrate Fossils policy", we needs good practices about evaluation & identification.

The scientific publication needs the addition of particular “Attribution” details in the manuscript or as Supplementary data, which purely states: 1) the collection details like who, when and where gathered the artifacts, fossils, ecofacts or human remnants; 2) the validation details like who, when and where evaluated the artifacts, fossils, ecofacts or human remnants for legitimacy and in time; 3) the storage and accessing details like where the artifacts, fossils, ecofacts or human remnants are housed and accessed freely.

Ethical Guidelines for the Biomarker studies

A self-regulating experimentation set/cohort must be required for the evaluation of putative biomarkers. The results of unevaluated biomarkers shall only be studied on background of flawless analytical, methodical association to medical syndrome or distinct impact to understanding of medical condition or clinical procedure. A declaration must be encompassed in every biomarker manuscripts reciting, in what way overfitting (large quantity of variables in training models analysed on lesser quantity of subject) and further bias practice were evaded. Discovery Scientific Society strongly instructed the researchers, before the submission of all manuscripts related to potentially new-biomarker, a sovereign statistician must be engaged to the evaluation of reports.

Ethical Guidelines for Modelling studies

Whichever experimental validation or over an independent dataset validation of the training set should be required for the computational models those are engaged in the work.

Ethical Guidelines for Small molecule studies

The works those are all use chemical molecules (including pharmaceutical experimental research) should reveal the whole structure that molecules, with stereochemistry if recognized. The full-length experimental methodology must be utilized & disclosed for the molecule’s preparation, distillation, refinement and characterization, if the respective molecule is not on hand & un-available. For every synthesized organic compound, the supplementary materials should consist the details of 1H also 13C nuclear-magnetic resonance-spectra.

Clinical Trials Registration

Registration

“International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)” guidelines are followed by Discovery Scientific Society and reccommend the registration of clinical trials in a public trials registry before the time of first patient enrolment as a condition of consideration for publication.

Clinical registration is not required if the study is of purely observational. Not only, pharmaceutical or hospital-based researches are referred to register for clinical trial, all researches which involve randomized population-based studies and group classification in the context of the intervention are under assessment.

In an international clinical trials register, the researchers are strongly recommended to pre-register their clinical trials and cite a reference regards the registration in the “Materials & Methods” section. Appropriate databases include ‘clinicaltrials.gov’, the ‘EU Clinical Trials Register’ and those enumerated by the 'World-Health-Organisation ‘International Clinical Trials Registry Platform’.

Approval from an autonomy local, provincial, or domestic review body is not equivalent to potential clinical trial registration to conduct a research. Discovery Scientific Society reserves the right to decline any manuscript without clinical trial registration.

CONSORT Statement

Discovery Scientific Society needs a completed “CONSORT 2010 checklist and flow diagram”, while submitting the research results of a randomized clinical trial. The authors should report each item of the checklist in their article, at least the minimum.

Equity of Gender & Sex in Research

Discovery Scientific Society guide our researchers to follows the ‘“Sex & Gender Equity in Research –SAGER–guidelines” and to include gender & sex consideration where required and relevant. The researchers must use terms gender (“formed by societal and traditional circumstances”) and sex (natural characteristic) cautiously so as to avoiding the confusion of both the terms. Manuscript heading and/or summary and/or abstracts must specify clearly what sex(es) the work relates to. We encourage that our researchers / authors refer the complete guidelines before the manuscript submission.

Potential Conflict of Interests

Based on the guidelines of ‘International Committee of Medical Journal Editors’, the researchers/authors should not interfere/impede with agreement of sponsors for-profit and non-profit. The sponsors may interfere with researchers in every step of research work progression like restrict the data collection, interfere with researcher’s science ability for experiment, in the preparation of manuscript & in choosing the journal for publication.

Researchers or Authors must declare any personal circumstances which influence the interpretation of the results. For eg. potential conflicts of interest includes fiscal and non-monetary interests: - private or professional relations, memberships, affiliation, employment, stocks/share ownership, consultancies.

Role of funding sponsors in any part of there research work should be mentioned in the declaration part. If the sponsers doesnt have any role in their research work, then the author should states that 'The study has not received any external funding'.

During the submission of article, the authors should include potential conflicts of interest in the article itself, under the heading of “Conflicts of Interest” after the conclusion section or before the reference-list section.

For example:

Conflict of Interests: Researcher W has received funds from Institution 1 .
Researcher X has acquired a facilitators allowance from Institution 2 and shares stocks in Institution 3.
Researcher Y has been involved as an advisor and observer in Institution 4.
Researcher Z is the author of patent 5.

If there is no potential conflict occurs, the researchers must state:
Conflicts of Interest: “The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interests”.

Copyright and Licensing

Copyrights are granted for the author(s) to retain the rights to their work. The published article(s) in our Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Research Data Policies of Discovery Scientific Society

For archiving and sharing of research content & data, Discovery Scientific Society is permitting authors to attain finest practices through open technical & scientific exchange. Discovery Scientific Society encourages our author’s to share their research content. The detailed author guideline is found in the page of “Authors”, at the home page of journal. Concerned to data sharing policies, We encourage our authors to share their published research data. Published content should be cited based on journal strategies and should be freely & widely accessible.

The well-versed TOP Guidelines are the data policies of Discovery Scientific Society Journals.

Research-data should not be shared where the legal, ethical or participants’ privacy issues are present. On the time of submission, the researchers must clearly states their data-limitations on the data-availability statement. Based on the informed consent obtained from the study participant(s), the authors should obey the data-sharing limitations & confidentiality of private data.

Statistical Analysis

Researchers/authors must detailing the statistical approaches in methodology section with suitable explanation those can effortlessly understand by readers to verify the statistical results with original data. Researchers must execute the research reports in a transparent & complete manner, therefore the specified conclusion are supported through suitable statistical calculation and limits of the research are honestly discussed.

Ethical Guidelines for Editors and Reviewers

Associate with journal’s editorial-house, every contributors related to the peer review progress, including reviewers, chief-editor, and board members take probity of Discovery Scientific Society’s editorial-process.

If a reviewer/editor who the contributor of peer-review progress has ethical apprehensions regarding a script sent to evaluation or finalization or gets information regards an ethic-concern subsequently after publication, they should communicate the editorial-team as early as possible. Then the editorial-team will inquire & take the final conclusion as per COPE guidelines.

The following checklist are executed at earlier and on-time of progression of peer-review process by the chief editor & editorial members. Nevertheless, the concerns regards peer-review from editor & reviewer must still be conveyed to the chief editor as well as editorial-in-house.

1. Studies engaging cell-lines, animals and human subjects requires permissions & approval regarding ethics
2. Piracy, duplication, malpractice, include earlier-published illustrations need necessary permission from the holder of copyright
3. The materials & methods division includes registration details of clinical-trials

The editor & reviewers must considering the following checks while make a positive decision & final acceptance of the manuscript:

1. Authors should be disclosed the manuscript concerned conflicts-of-interest before the submission & and it must be detailed in specific section of the article
2. The core-finding of the research, significances of the research findings and unbiased discussion should be embedded very precisely by authors
3. The methodology & data engaged in the work required to be clearly presented in full-length detail in the manuscript, subsequently future researchers reproduce their study
4. The data should fits with scope of the submitted journal
5. The sufficient scientific & technique feedbacks provided by the reviewers were appropriate to evaluate the submission

Potential Conflict of Interests

Discovery Scientific Society encourage transparency, & who are all participated in the peer-review progress should judiciously obey and disclose the conflict of interest while contributing to peer-review, manuscript finalization and publication of work. Before commencing to peer-review, any association which restrict & interfere the data assessment, peer-review progress & manuscript decision-making should be declared. The editor or reviewer or both trusts that the presence of any conflicts, which should not influence the review-progress or manuscript finalization process; if so, The editor or reviewer should get rid of themselves in the review-pipeline to evade the sensitivity of conflicts of interest in addition to shield the integrity regarding to peer-review progress.

Conflicts of Interest (Types)

The editor or reviewer or neither one should not participate in the pipeline of peer-review of a work submitted via researchers those are associated with the own organization/University, by authors those are the collaborators of the work, or by some authors those are all personally well known, spouse or any members of the family. The editor or reviewer or both should not participate in the pipeline of peer-review of a work submitted via authors those are all represent in the current time, or represented as a tutor or research mentor or had past relationship or co-author of any publication in the past 3 years.

Professional or Financial Conflicts

Financial conflicts contain some specialized or commercial associations, financial or profitable benefits, or other conflicts are observed as possibly influence to peer-review process. Neither Editors nor Reviewers would get specialized or commercial associations, wages, panel membership, fiscal, scholarship & allowance from a firm or firms’ welfare through the research outcomes or some-other features of the script-data, stipends, or grasp other benefits in an organization whose merchandise detailed in the manuscript, or privileges of intellectual properties i.e., royalty, copyright, and patent, subsequently their influence or support. Where may be observed as possibly familiarizing unfairness to peer-review progress, the editor & reviewers should not contribute in the peer-review & decision-making progress of the study.

Other Conflicts

Further conflicts regarding actual or possibly noticed influencing the decision-making and outcomes of peer-review progress must be self-confessed. According to the Discovery Scientific Society’s editorial policies, manuscript originality, excellence and suitability of the journal should be evaluated by editors & reviewers. Discovery Scientific Society aims to construct a journal’s structure as comprehensive and diverse; and has no room for discernment centered on gender, character, sex, race, sexual orientation, country of origin, color, religion, socio-economic grade, age and physical ability. Personal biases should be disclosed by editors & reviewers which may influence or disturb the peer-review progress. If the editor or reviewer or both, with the existence of conflicts of interest in reviewing the study, a different editor or reviewer or both should be assigned. If a manuscript is submitted to the journal by the author who himself is an editor, its work should be editorially managed via another editor who doesn’t hold any conflicts of interest.

Confidentiality and Anonymity

The content of the article including abstract should keep confidential by editors & reviewers. Discovery Scientific Society Journals execute double-blind external peer-review. The identity of reviewers should not be making known to authors in their review explanations or in the technical comments of a research report given in PDF or MS Word format. Discovery Scientific Society Journals will not suggest researchers to include reviewers-comments in their-paper.

Comments and Complaints

If readers have any corrections, complaints, objections, or comments regarding published works, before communicating with the journal office, they must first communicate with the corresponding author to rectify and resolve the issue. If the issues were not rectified by the authors or the authors were not answerable for the specified complaints, the readers may contact the editorial office of the Discovery Scientific Society. The editorial team will jointly work with the reader to inquire about, resolve, and rectify the complaints in the paper.

The article addresses legal and ethical issues; any related comments, grievances, criticisms, or requests regarding the update will be investigated as needed. With the final decision of the Discovery Scientific Society after the joint interaction with editorial members and the chief editor of the journal, all article-related legal and ethical concerns, associated comments, grievances, criticisms, or requests related to an update will be resolved.

The Discovery Scientific Society's final decision, after consultation with editorial members and the journal's chief editor, was to recommend adherence to the core ideologies of publication principles articulated by COPE. If required, other experts, other university professors, other research institution experts, and legal guidance will be referred to resolve the complaints.

Criticism and comments regarding personal matters will not be encouraged. Every reasonable complaint is considered, except anonymous complaints. Criticians may request that their comments be handled confidentially by in-house editorial staff. According to the editorial in-house procedure, complaints will be handled by editorial board members. Conclusions regard any corrections, complaints, objections, comments, and retractions, ensuring they are completed by the editorial team and chief editor and conveyed to responsible authors.

Updating Published Papers

Discovery Scientific Society clear on our concern to correct the errors regarding scientific, or ethical disputes which have been fetched to our knowledge. Discovery Scientific Society will take the final decision regarding updating the published article; no-one (authors, grant supporters, laboratory supporters, field workers, study population, participants, 3rd party institution, or etc..,) can involve in our final decision. Regarding the transparency concerns, for our readers, we make changes in published articles based on the standardized principles as follows;

Minor errors

Small mistakes like spacing, spelling errors, grammar errors are not affecting the meaning of sentence or readability of data; those errors do not succeed for correction of published article.

Metadata errors

Discovery scientific society has its own metadata error policy. Discovery scientific society, regularly urges our authors to check & correct the metadata like their name, spelling, initials, article title and abstract in 4 stages (peer-review stage, revised-article stage, galley-proof stage, and article in forthcoming stage before identifies with DOI), at this ground, there is no necessary chances for the metadata errors after the article get published with DOI. If it happens again after this lengthy-process, that is the mistake/ignorance of authors; for this kind of issues authors should take the sole responsibility; Discovery scientific society journals do not change the metadata. After the publication of article with DOI, this kind of metadata changes must be disturbing the readers’ opinion & updating progress in indexing databases.

Corrections

Corrections & updating should be carried out for the articles those were published in the forthcoming stage alone. For the following issues, the correction requisition of errors can be fulfilled, but the error should be very minor without affect the final-conclusion;

• Scientific errors
  o section errors (which does not modify the research conclusion)
  o data errors (which does not modify the research conclusion)
  o interpretation errors (which does not modify the research conclusion)
• Scientifically configuring blurred images/ missing table
• Adding or deletion of references
• Author contribution & acknowledgement

Author Name Change Policy

Discovery scientific society has its own author name & affiliation change policy. Discovery scientific society, regularly urges our authors to check & correct their name, spelling, initials and institutional affiliation in 4 stages (peer-review stage, revised-article stage, galley-proof stage, and article in forthcoming stage before identifies with DOI), at this ground, there is no necessary chances for author name change & affiliation change after the article get published with DOI. If it happens again after this lengthy-process, that is the mistake/ignorance of authors; for this kind of issues authors should take the sole responsibility; Discovery scientific society journals do not change their name & affiliation further. In some cases, at the time of article publication, the author working in X institution/college/country; after the publication the authors may relocate their job to Y institution/college/country - for this kind of issues authors should take the sole responsibility; Discovery scientific society journals do not change their affiliation further. After the publication of article with DOI, this kind of changes may be disturbing the readers’ opinion & updating progress in indexing databases.

Retractions

Discovery Scientific Society obey the policies of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for retraction. However, article retraction is decided only by the editor, not based on author withdrawal request.
This may happen due to 1) data manipulation, 2) gross breaching of ethical concerns, 3) unintentional mistakes happened in experimentation process of research, 4) data piracy or some other reason. Such published woks endanger the truthfulness of science-data and essential to be retracted from the published literature. Discovery Scientific Society retracting the paper after the evidential guidance of editor, board members and readers of the scholarly community. The retraction details of the particular article will be published in the same issue itself. We are not encouraging the partial retraction.

The full retraction is published in following procedure: - 1) in HTML page of issue contents, it noted as “Retracted: [Paper heading]”, in the very next line “list of all authors name”; 2) in PDF content, it noted as “Retracted: [Paper heading]”, in the very next line “list of all authors name, then authors’ affiliation details”, then “reason for retraction” & approval of authors/editor, meantime the whole original data of the article is removed; 3) The PDF file is water-marked as “Retracted” in all available pages; 4) meantime, article related other HTML pages & supplementary details also removed.

Comments and Replies

The comments of readers about the specific research article, the questions should be sent to the editor through the e-mail in the form of letter. If the editorial team review & found those questions are truthful, then the editorial team will communicate the author with those questions, and ask authors to reply the questions. If the author can’t provide adequate research proofs, the editorial team will take the scientific-decision to retract the entire paper from our webpage, then the article retraction policies of Discovery Scientific Society will apply on that particular paper.

The commentaries & responses will be evaluated to confirm that:
 • the commentary statements essential aspects of the original study while not turning into primarily a replacement paper;
 • the responses directly towards any particular problem, without causing ambiguous;
 • the nature of both published data is applicable for scientific periodical.

While readiness can make commentaries & condemn the study, but they should not comment the study’s authors. Commentaries should not repeat formerly published divergences. After a single comment and discussion from a reader, further comments and replies will not be enabled from the same reader. Discovery Scientific Society will take the comments only for articles were published through Discovery Scientific Society journals.

Article Substitution and Withdrawal Policy

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