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Author Instructions
           3. Publication Ethics Statement

           OAE is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best
           Practice Guidelines.

           The Editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to
           guarantee to add high-quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism,
           data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The Editors of IR take such
           publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with zero tolerance policy.

           Authors wishing to publish their papers in IR must abide by the following:
           The author(s) must disclose any possibility of a conflict of interest in the paper prior to submission;
           The authors should declare that there is no academic misconduct in their manuscript in the cover letter;
           Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their
           findings;
           Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the manuscript so that other researchers
           can replicate the work;
           Authors should provide raw data if referees and the Editors of the journal request;
           Simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal is not tolerated;
           Republishing content that is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper that is already published
           in another language will not be accepted);
           The manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already published
           figures or images, please get the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license;
           Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated;
           Plagiarism is not acceptable in OAE journals.

           Plagiarism involves the inclusion of large sections of unaltered or minimally altered text from an existing source without
           appropriate and unambiguous attribution, and/or an attempt to misattribute original authorship regarding ideas or results,
           and copying text, images, or data from another source, even from your own publications, without giving credit to the source.

           As to reusing the text that is copied from another source, it must be between quotation marks and the source must be cited.
           If a study’s design or the manuscript’s structure or language has been inspired by previous studies, these studies must be
           cited explicitly.
           If plagiarism is detected during the peer-review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after
           publication, we may publish a Correction or retract the paper.
           Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results so that the
           findings are not accurately represented in the research record.
           Image files must not be manipulated or adjusted in any way that could lead to misinterpretation of the information provided
           by the original image.
           Irregular manipulation includes: introduction, enhancement, moving, or removing features from the original image; the
           grouping of images that should be presented separately, or modifying the contrast, brightness, or color balance to obscure,
           eliminate, or enhance some information.

           If irregular image manipulation is identified and confirmed during the peer-review process, we may reject the manuscript.
           If irregular image manipulation is identified and confirmed after publication, we may publish a Correction or retract the
           paper.

           OAE reserves the right to contact the authors’ institution(s) to investigate possible publication misconduct if the Editors find
           conclusive evidence of misconduct before or after publication. OAE has a partnership with iThenticate, which is the most
           trusted similarity checker. It is used to analyze received manuscripts to avoid plagiarism to the greatest extent possible.
           When  plagiarism  becomes  evident  after  publication,  we  will  retract  the  original  publication or  require  modifications,
           depending on the degree of plagiarism, context within the published article, and its impact on the overall integrity of the
           published study. Journal Editors will act under the relevant COPE guidelines.
           4. Authorship
           Authorship credit of IR should be solely based on substantial contributions to a published study, as specified in the
           following four criteria:

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