Publication Ethics

Duties and Responsibilities of Publishers

1. MJA is committing to ensure that editorial decisions on manuscript submissions are final.
2. MJA promises to ensure that the decision on manuscript submissions is only made based on professional judgment and will not be affected by commercial interests.
3. MJA is committed to maintaining the integrity of academic and research records.
4. MJA monitors the ethics of the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Editorial Board Members, Reviewers, Authors, and Readers.
5. MJA is constantly checking the plagiarism and fraudulent data issues involved in the submitted manuscript.
6. MJA is always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, and retractions involving its publications as and when needed.

Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

1. MJA editors should have the full authority to reject/accept a manuscript.
2. MJA editors should maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts under review or until publication.
3. The Editor-in-Chief should decide on submitted manuscripts, whether to be published or not, with other editors and reviewers.
4. MJA editors should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
5. MJA editors should disclose and avoid conflict of interest.
6. MJA editors should maintain academic integrity and strive to meet the needs of readers and authors.
7. MJA editors should be willing to investigate plagiarism and fraudulent data issues and publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
8. MJA editors should limit themselves only to intellectual content.
9. MJA editors must not disclose any information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
10. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper will not be used by the editor or the editorial board members for their own research purposes without the author's explicit written consent.

Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers

1. MJA reviewers should assist the editors in deciding to publish the submitted manuscripts.
2. MJA reviewers should maintain the confidentiality of the manuscripts. They are invited to review.
3. MJA reviewers should provide comments in time that will help editors to make decisions on whether the submitted manuscript is to be published or Rejected.
4. MJA reviewers are bound to treat the manuscript received for peer reviewing as confidential and must not use the information obtained through peer review for personal advantage.
5. MJA reviewer's comment against each invited manuscript should be technical, professional, and objective.
6. MJA reviewers should not review the manuscripts in which they have found conflicts of interest with authors, companies, or institutions.
7. MJA reviewers should disclose and avoid conflict of interest.

Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

1. When an Author submits a manuscript to MJA, the manuscript must be an original work. If the Authors have used the work, this must be appropriately cited and quoted. The same applies to the work of others.
2. Manuscripts must be submitted in English and written according to sound grammar and proper terminology.
3. Authors must not submit to MJA the same work, in whole or partially of their work to two or more places of publication at the same time or at any time. A single study should not be split up into several parts to increase the number of submissions and submitted to various journals or to one journal over time.
4. Before submitting a manuscript to MJA, Authors must withdraw articles under review with any other journals or any article uploaded to any platforms. Any manuscript uploaded to any platform would not be considered by MJA. Moreover, suppose the manuscript contains materials that overlap with previously published work. In that case, that is in the press or under consideration for publication elsewhere, the Author must cite this work in the manuscript. The Author must also inform MJA's Editor of the related work and send the manuscript to him/ her as needed.
5. Authors should not resubmit a manuscript to MJA that was previously submitted to MJA and “Rejected” by MJA; MJA would not reconsider it. If MJA rejected the earlier version with the decision of “Rejected and Resubmit,” and the Author wishes to resubmit the revised version, this fact and the justification for resubmission should be clearly communicated by the Author to the Editor of MJA at the time of submission and should be declared in a cover letter.
6. The submitting corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all the other coauthors have approved the manuscript article's publication.
7. Authors are obligated to participate in a peer review process to evaluate manuscripts from others to sustain the peer review system.
8. It is also the author's responsibility to ensure that the manuscripts emanating from a particular institution are submitted with the approval of the necessary institution.
9. The authors must permit editing of the paper for readability before submitting it.
10. Authors are requested to clearly identify who provided financial support for the research and/or preparation of the manuscript and briefly describe the role of the founder/ sponsor in any part of the work.
11. In case of multiple authorship, a copyright release form must be signed by the corresponding author before the manuscript is accepted for publication. This ensures that all authors are legally responsible for the Journal's ethics and privacy policy.
12. Under an open access license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content but allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are appropriately cited.
13. All authors have agreed to allow the corresponding author to serve as the correspondent with the editorial office to review the edited manuscript and proof.
14. When the author(s) discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, they must promptly notify the journal editor or publisher to retract or correct the manuscript.
15. All authors must know that the submitted manuscripts under review or published with MJA are subject to screening using Plagiarism Prevention Software. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics.

All authors must ensure that all authors have read the submission final checklist before being submitted to the MJA

Principles of Transparency

3. Peer review process: MJA is a double-blind, peer-reviewed electronic and print publication with four Issues per year concerned with all aspects of Agricultural sciences. This process and any policies related to the journal's peer review procedures are clearly described on the journal's website: (https://ojs.uomosul.edu.iq/index.php/magrj/Peer-Review-Process).
4. Governing Body: MJA has an extreme editorial board whose members are recognized experts in the subject areas included within the journal's scope. The full names and affiliations of the journal's editors are provided on the journal's Web site (https://ojs.uomosul.edu.iq/index.php/magrj/Editorial-Board)
5. Contact information: Journal provided the contact information for the editorial office of MJA (https://www.magrj.mosuljournals.com/journal/contact.us).
6. Author fees / Access: The Journal database is fully open access, and the full text of published articles is available for everyone who can access the Journal website free of cost. Besides, the authors should pay the article publication fee of 100 US $.
7. Copyright: Journals clarify the type of copyright under which the author's work will be published. Upon acceptance of a manuscript, authors will be asked to complete a "Journal Publishing Agreement."
8. Identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct: Editor-in-Chief takes reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others.
9. Web site: The journal's website (https://magrj.uomosul.edu.iq/) demonstrates that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards.
10. Name of journal: The Journal name of Mesopotamia Journal of Agriculture (MJA) is unique and not one that is easily confused with another journal
11. Conflicts of interest: Authors are requested to be evident whether impending conflicts do or do not exist while submitting their articles to MJA through the Conflict of Interest Disclosure form.
12. Publishing schedule: The periodicity at which a journal publishes is clearly indicated (http://www.magrj.mosuljournals.com).
13. Archiving: A journal's plan for electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content is clearly indicated (https://magrj.uomosul.edu.iq/).