Lumina Literati Publishing’s Publication Ethics

Authorship and Contributorship

Criteria for Authorship: Only those people who have made a significant contribution to the concept, design, execution or interpretation of the research shall be included as authors. All authors should agree on the final manuscript and permit its submission.

Acknowledgment of Contributors: It is important to acknowledge people who contributed in any way to the work even if they are not eligible for authorship.

Originality and Plagiarism

Original Work: Works must be original and therefore; if used someone else’s work or words, it must be properly cited or quoted.

Plagiarism: Any form of plagiarism is unacceptable; manuscripts containing plagiarized materials will either be retracted or rejected.

Data Integrity and Fabrication

Accurate Reporting: They must give a true account of what was done during research and give objective discussion on its significance.

Data Fabrication: This involves making up of data, distortion or hiding some details which are unethical.

Conflicts of Interest

Disclosure: Authors must make public all financial relationships or personal interests that could bias their work.

Reviewers and Editors: Reviewers and editors should declare conflicts of interest in respect to manuscripts they cannot handle due to their existence.

Ethical Oversight

Human & Animal Subjects: Research involving humans or animals should adhere to ethical standards as stipulated by various institutions granting ethical clearance for such policies.

Informed Consent: In human participants’ case, informed consent has to be sought from all individuals involved while this fact should also be stated in the manuscript publication process (APA).

Publication Decisions

Editorial Independence: Editorial decisions reflect only on academic materials that meet journal scope regardless of authors’ race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, nationality or political views.

Peer Review Process: Manuscripts are reviewed by independent experts so as to ensure that quality is assured for the research. Reviewers’ identities are kept confidential, and double-blind peer review is practiced.

Corrections & Retractions

Corrections: Should author(s) identify any significant error in their published work they should promptly notify journal editor and appropriate corrections will be made to ensure that this information reaches all concerned parties.

Retractions: Manuscript may be retracted in case serious errors or ethical breach occur such as data fabrication or plagiarism. The reasons for the retraction of a manuscript will always be indicated in its withdrawal note.

Confidentiality

Reviewer Confidentiality: Reviewers must maintain confidentiality of manuscripts handling them as privileged documents and not give any information regarding such a matter to any other person apart from the editor.

Author Confidentiality: To retain integrity of blind reviewing process, authors’ and reviewers’ names are concealed from reviewers.

In this way Lumina Literati Publishing preserves the principles of publishing ethics hinged on integrity, transparency, quality research thereby promoting confidence among academic community members.