Editorial Responsibilities
Decisions regarding publication
The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to TEME will be published. The Editor-in-Chief is guided by the Editorial Policy and constrained by the legal requirements in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The Editor-in-Chief strictly evaluates submitted manuscripts for academic merit, including importance, originality, and the study’s validity, clarity, and relevance to the journal’s scope. The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to decide not to publish submitted manuscripts in case it is found that they do not meet relevant standards concerning their content and formal aspects. The Editor-in-Chief shall evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content free from any racial, gender, sexual, religious, ethnic, or political bias.
The Editor-in-Chief will inform the authors whether the manuscript is accepted for publication within 5-7 weeks from the date of the manuscript’s submission (submission completed in all aspects). In the case a revision of the manuscript is required, this period shall be extended to 14 weeks from the date of submission.
Confidentiality
Any information about the submitted manuscript should only be disclosed to the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate, by the Editor-in-Chief and any editorial staff. In the case that the Editor-in-Chief violates confidentiality, he or she may be relieved of their duties.
Discloser and conflict of interest
The Editor-in-Chief must hold no conflict of interest with regard to the articles they consider for publication. If an Editor-in-Chief feels that there is likely to be a conflict of interest in relation to their handling of a submission, the selection of reviewers and all decisions on the paper shall be made by the Editorial Board. The Editor and members of the Editorial Board will not use unpublished information disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their own research purposes without the author’s explicit written consent. In the event of conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships/connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers, the Editor will abstain from considering manuscripts and instead request another member of the Editorial Board to handle the manuscript.
Reviewer’s responsibilities
Contributions to editorial decisions
The peer-reviewing process aids the Editor and the Editorial Board in making editorial decisions and can help the author improve the paper. TEME acknowledges that peer review is a crucial component of formal scholarly communication and is central to scientific endeavours.
Standards of objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively, and personal criticism of the author should be refrained from. To help authors improve the manuscript, referees should clearly express their views with supporting arguments. This journal uses a double-blind review process, as it facilitates an impartial appraisal of the manuscript. If it happens that one review is positive and the other is negative, the Editor will appoint another reviewer.
Confidentiality
Manuscripts received for review should be treated as confidential documents, and should not be disclosed or discussed with others except as authorised by the Editor. This applies to invited reviewers who decline the review invitation. Any breach of confidentiality will be considered unethical behaviour.
Promptness
Should a selected referee believe that they are not qualified to review the research repost in a manuscript, or should they realise that prompt review will be impossible, they should inform the Editor and withdraw from the review process so that alternative reviewers can be contacted.
Acknowledgement of sources
Reviewers should notify the Editor of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other manuscript (published or unpublished) of which they have personal knowledge. Reviewers should also bring the Editor any information that could lead to publication rejection.
Authors’ responsibilities
Originality, plagiarism and acknowledgement of sources
Authors are required to submit original work, and if they use someone else’s work or words, they should cite them appropriately. The citation of publications that influenced the nature of the submitted work is also recommended. In the same way, he regularly recommends quoting works that have already been published in journal TEME. Plagiarism is unacceptable in all forms, including presenting another’s work as your own, copying or paraphrasing significant portions of another’s work without attribution, or claiming the results of research conducted by others. For this reason, when sending the manuscript, authors must provide a written Author’s Statement, in which the author’s rights are also submitted.
Authorship of the paper
Only those who contributed significantly to the conception, design, analysis, and/or interpretation of the reported study should be considered for authorship. The corresponding author must ensure that all contributing co-authors and any formerly unlisted individuals are included in the author list, and that they have approved the final version of the paper and agreed to publish it. At the same time, the exact affiliations of all authors should be stated.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Authors must disclose any financial or substantive conflicts of interest that could impact the results of their study, or any interest that could impact the results of the interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be transparent and listed in a footnote.
Fundamental errors in published works
It is the author’s responsibility to promptly notify the journal Editor when they discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, and to work with the Editor to withdraw or correct it through an erratum. If a third party finds an error in a published work, it is the author’s responsibility to cooperate with the Editor and provide evidence if requested.
Authors’ rights & permissions
TEME supports the need for authors to disseminate and thus maximize the impact of their research. When publishing in TEME, the Corresponding Author is asked to transfer, with the consent of all Co-authors, the copyright ownership in the referenced submitted article, including all versions in any format known or hereafter developed to the journal TEME (Copyright and Warranty Form). Copyright allows you to protect your original work and material, and to stop others from using it without your permission. It means that others will need to credit you and your work properly, thus increasing its impact. If the submitted article is not accepted by TEME, or if it is withdrawn prior to acceptance by TEME, this transfer will be null and void.
Authors, users or readers of an article also need to be clear on how they can use the article. TEME adopts the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-BY-NC_ND) 4.0 International Licence, which governs how authors, publishers and the wider general public can use, publish or distribute articles. Below is the quick reference guide of the permitted reuse of your article.
Authors may:
- read, print and download the articles,
- redistribute or republish the final article (e.g. display in a repository),
- translate the article for private use only and not for distribution,
- download for text and data mining purposes,
- reuse portions or extracts from the article in other works,
- not sell or re-use the article for commercial purposes.
A digital file of the published article, or the link to the published article (TEME web page) may be made publicly available on websites or repositories, such as the Author’s personal website, preprint servers, university networks or primary employer’s institutional websites, third party institutional or subject-based repositories, and conference websites that feature presentations by the Author(s) based on the published article, under the condition that the posting must be for non-commercial purposes. The Editorial Board believes that this increases the journal’s visibility.
The costs of publication
The journal does not charge a fee for reviewing or for publishing, but the journal does not pay a fee (recompense) to the authors either. Each author receives a copy of the issue in which the manuscript is published.