Copyrights

Article Retraction

Appeals and Complaints


Synergy Publishers serves the double-blind peer-review process for submissions of all manuscripts to its journals. It is the sort of peer-reviewing in which the identification of the authors and reviewers is not exposed in the proposed manuscript.

Articles are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode), which provides the open circulation and reproduction in any means, presented that the work is correctly cited.

All proposed articles are subjected to an extended peer-review discussion with the Journal’s Editorial Board and independent outside referees. All manuscripts are judged rapidly, and the judgment conveyed by the Journal’s Editor-in-Chief is based on all the peer-reviewer’s observations, which are then transferred to the author(s).

Submissions from the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board Members will deal with free peer-review and be given to different editors to ascertain acceptance.

All works are completed to facilitate the peer-review process starting to suitable publication.

Authors publishing with Synergy Publishers holds the copyright to their work.

Authors can publish an extensive range of articles in Synergy Publishers journals, e.g., short communications, full-length research and review articles, case studies, conference proceedings, supplements, etc.

Human and Animal Rights: All clinical investigations must be conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki teachings. For all manuscripts publishing data from subjects including human associates, prescribed review and support by an appropriate institutional review board or standards committee are required.

For research involving animals, the authors should show whether the processes reflected were under the criteria defined in the eighth edition of Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/guide-for-the-care-and-use-of-laboratory-animals_prepub.pdf, published by the National Academy of Sciences, The National Academies Press, Washington, DC).

Research Involving Animals

Research Involving Plants:

All experimental research on plants (both developed or natural) need to comply with universal guidelines. The manuscript must undoubtedly add a compliance statement of field studies with proper procedures and/or relevant support or licenses taken by the IUCN Policy Statement on Research Involving Species at Risk of Extinction and the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

Patient Consent:

Agreement with the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (http://www.icmje.org/) is approved, following the patient’s consent for research or support in a study for Synergy Publishers as per the appropriate laws and regulations concerning the privacy and/or protection of personal knowledge, including, but not restricted to, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and other US federal and state legislation linking to confidentiality and safety of individually distinct evidence, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 and member state executing the law, Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, India’s Information Technology Act and related Privacy Rules, (together “Data Protection and Privacy Laws”).

The author can ensure that:

  • Must not be discussed patients’ names, initials, or hospital numbers wherever in the manuscript (including figures).
  • Authors are liable for taking patient consent-to-disclose forms for all recognizable patients in videos, photographs, or other knowledge that may be published in the journal, in the collected study, or on the journal’s website and for presenting the manuscript to the recognizable patient for review before submission.
  • The consent-to-disclose form should show particular use (publication in the medical history in print and online, understanding that patients and the public preference have passage) of the patient’s information and images in figures or videos. It must include the patient’s signature or a lawful guardian, along with a declaration that the patient or legal custodian has been given a chance to review the identifying substances and the accompanying manuscript.
  • Suppose the manuscript has individuals’ data, such as personal detail, audio-video material, etc.; In that case, should gain permission from that individual. In the case of children, should obtain consent from the parent or the legal guardian.

The sponsor or corresponding author should maintain the original. · Must obtain a definite statement of such support and consent-to-disclose form in the copyright letter and a stand-alone part at the end of the article, particularly in the case of human studies where the addition of a statement regarding taking the written, knowledgeable approval from each subject or subject’s guardian is a must. Editors may demand to provide the original forms by fax or e-mail.

  • Proper approval should support all such case reports before publishing.

Editors may demand that authors present documentation of the approved review and help from the institutional review board or ethics committee liable for oversight of the study. The editors keep the right to decline manuscripts that do not comply with the conditions discussed earlier. The author will be held accountable for misleading reports or negligence to fulfil the criteria specified above.

Non-identifiable Images: Unidentified images that do not recognize the person directly or indirectly, such as by any identifying signs or text, do not need approved consent, for example, x-rays, ultrasound images, pathology slides, or laparoscopic images.

Covering the identity through eye bars or blurring the face would not be acceptable if not taking consent.

Copyrights: Authors who publish in Synergy Publishers journals hold the copyright to their work. Submission of a manuscript to the corresponding journals means that all authors have read and consented to the content of the Covering Letter or the Terms and Conditions. It is a condition of publication that manuscripts presented to a journal must not be published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere.

Synergy Publishers (Licensor) allows the author(s) a global, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and non-commercial recurring license to practice the rights in the article published as stated below:

  • All manuscripts are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode), allowing free distribution and reproduction in any medium that the work is correctly cited.
  • The authors hold the copyright of their published article. They will further have the right to:
  • Reproduce the article, to include the article into one or more collective works, and to represent the article as incorporated in collective works;
  • Organize and reproduce Derivative Works for educational purposes.
  • Distribute Copies
  • Any commercial utilization of the work, with prior agreement by the author, is wholly granted to Synergy Publishers.

Appeals and Complaints: Usually, the editorial judgments are not reverted. However, authors who think their manuscript was denied due to a mistake or misunderstanding may answer the decision. Appeals must give valid reasoning and compelling evidence against the objection raised in the rejection letter. A difference of view concerning the interest, novelty, or appropriateness of the manuscript for the journal will not be granted an appeal. The EIC and other relevant editors will examine the request. The judgment after that taken by the journal will be assumed final. Approval of the manuscript is not warranted even if the journal agrees to review the manuscript. The reconsideration process may include former or fresh reviewers or editors and substantive review.

Authors who wish to make a complaint should apply them to the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal concerned. Complaints to the Publisher may be e-mailed to managing.edior@synergypublishers.com.

Plagiarism Restriction: Synergy Publishers use iThenticate software to identify overlapping and similar text occurrences in submitted manuscripts. iThenticate software checks the content against a database of publications, the Internet, and an extensive article database. It creates a similarity report, highlighting the percentage overlap between the uploaded article and the published stuff. Any occurrence of content overlap is additionally tested for assumed plagiarism according to the publisher’s Editorial Policies. Synergy Publishers provides an overall identity of 20% for a manuscript to be accepted for publication. The similarity percentage is additionally checked following the subsequent essential points in view:

Low Text Similarity: The text of every submitted manuscript is examined using the Content Tracking mode in iThenticate. This model assures that manuscripts with an overall common percentage identity (but may have a more significant similarity from a single source) are not neglected. The acceptable limit for similarity of text from a single source is 5%. Suppose the similarity level is above 5%. The manuscript is transferred to the author for paraphrasing the text and citing the basis of the copied material.

It is necessary to consider that the text taken from different sources with an overall low similarity percentage will be regarded as a plagiarized content if most of the article is a combination of copied material.

High Text Similarity: Some manuscripts may have an overall low similarity percentage but a higher percentage from a single source. A manuscript may have less than 20% overall similarity, but 15 % similar text is taken from a single article. The similarity index in such cases is higher than the recommended limit for a single source. Authors are encouraged to rephrase the similar text thoroughly and properly cite the original quote to bypass plagiarism and copyright violation.

Samples of Plagiarism: We all know that scholarly manuscripts are drafted after thoroughly reviewing earlier published articles. It is hence not simple to draw a precise border between legitimate representation and plagiarism. However, the following essential points can support different distinguishing kinds of plagiarized content. These are:

  • Reproduction of others’ words, sentences, ideas, or findings as one’s own without proper acknowledgment.
  • Text recycling, likewise known as self-plagiarism. The author follows a former publication in another paper without proper citation and acknowledgement of the source.
  • Inadequate paraphrasing, copying whole paragraphs and changing a few words without modifying the structure of original sentences or editing the sentence construction but not the words.
  • Verbatim copying of text without putting quote marks and not supporting the work of the original author.
  • They are perfectly citing a work, but badly paraphrasing the original text is supposed accidental plagiarism. Similarly, manuscripts with language among paraphrasing and quoting are not admissible. Authors should either quote properly or quote and, in both cases, cite the source.
  • Higher identity in the abstract, introduction, materials and methods, and discussion and conclusion sections means the manuscript may include plagiarized text. Authors can clearly explain these parts of the manuscript in several ways. However, author scientific terms and sometimes standard methods cannot be rephrased; therefore, Editors must thoroughly review these sections before deciding.

Plagiarism in Published Manuscripts: Published manuscripts containing plagiarized text are retracted from the journal website after careful research and approval by the Journal’s Editor-in-Chief. A ‘Retraction Note’ and a link to the original study are published on the plagiarised manuscript’s electronic version.

Copyrights: Authors who publish in Synergy Publishers journals hold the copyright to their work. Submission of a manuscript to the corresponding journals means that all authors have read and consented to the content of the Covering Letter or the Terms and Conditions. It is a condition of publication that manuscripts presented to a journal must not be published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere.

Synergy Publishers (Licensor) allows the author(s) a global, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and non-commercial recurring license to practice the rights in the article published as stated below:

  • All manuscripts are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode), allowing free distribution and reproduction in any medium that the work is correctly cited.
  • The authors hold the copyright of their published article. They will further have the right to:
  • Reproduce the article, to include the article into one or more collective works, and to represent the article as incorporated in collective works;
  • Organize and reproduce Derivative Works for educational purposes.
  • Distribute Copies
  • Any commercial utilization of the work, with prior agreement by the author, is wholly granted to Synergy Publishers.

Waiver: Authors grant Synergy Publishers (licensor) the right to retain revenue from commercial sales of the author’s published article in Synergy Publishers journals.

Synergy Publishers provides affordable article processing fees, attaining the most cost-effective matched to other OPEN access journal publishers. The author/author’s institution requires an article-processing payment for every accepted article to cover the costs incurred by OPEN access publication.

Authors can self-archive post prints of their listed articles.

Authors can reproduce derivative works of the article for educational purposes and distribute its copies.

Article Retraction: If any manuscripts are published, having specific detailed information of volume/issue/page number, and it is affirmed that there are violations of professional, ethical principles in their content, such as plagiarism, excess similarity with any other article, illegal use of data, etc., then so manuscripts are retracted.

A retraction note entitled “Retraction: [article title]” (for example, Retraction: ABC analysis involving XYZ species) is published in the paginated part of the following scheduled issue of the journal and is also noted in the table of contents.

  • The Editor-in-Chief permits the retraction note of the concerned journal.
  • A link to the actual study guides presented while this online.
  • A screen bearing the retraction note appears before the electronic version of the article is on the website. A link for the complete article is already on the screen, i.e., to reach the retracted article.
  • The link/webpage of the original article persists unchanged; however, a watermark is shaded on its downloadable PDF document to give the message that retracted the article explicitly.

Concurrent Publication/Simultaneous Submission: Publication requires that manuscripts presented to the Synergy Publishers journal not be published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published subsequently. Plagiarism is undoubtedly prevented, and by submitting the article for publication, the authors agree that the publishers have the legitimate right to take suitable action against the authors if plagiarism or fabricated data is found.

Abstracts and posters of conferences, outcomes presented at meetings (for example, to notify researchers or associates about findings), results from databases (data without understanding, discussion, context, or results in the form of tables and text to report data/information where this is not indeed presented in tabular form) are not supposed before publication.

Authors who need to publish versions of the articles that have been issued afterwards should assure that they have proper authorization (s), show clearly that the substance has been translated and re-published, and confirm the source of the material. The Editor-in-Chief may inquire about the related publications if he/she is concerned regarding overlap and feasible redundancy.

Publication Charges Policy: Synergy Publishers is committed to disseminating research and scholarly journals as widely as possible. It promotes the policy that ‘the study results that have been publicly funded should be openly available in the public domain. Therefore, it supports researchers to present their research free through Open Access (OA).

Open access publishing is not without costs. Synergy Publishers presents open access publications that partially pay the costs of journal production, online hosting, and archiving from authors and their research sponsors by charging a publication fee for each article they publish.

Errata, Corrigenda, and Corrections in Published Articles: Authors and readers are encouraged to notify the Editor-in-Chief if they discover mistakes in published content, author’s names, and associations or have reasons for concern over the legitimacy of a publication. In this case, Synergy Publishers will publish an ERRATUM or a CORRIGENDUM, in discussion with the Editor-in-Chief and authors of the article, and/or substitute or retract the article.

Article Withdrawal: Article(s) that have been accepted for publication but which have not been published with volume/issue/page information) that combine errors or are decided to disrupt the publishing standards guidelines such as various submissions, false allegations of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or the like, possibly “Withdrawn” from the journal. Withdrawal means that the article files are removed and replaced with a PDF stating that the article has lived removed from the following Journal of Synergy Publishers.

Disclaimer: Liability for the content published by Synergy Publishers in any of its journals, including any ideas shown therein, rests solely with the author(s) of such content. To the most extent allowed by appropriate law, Synergy Publishers (on its side and support of its staff and members of its editorial board) disclaims liability for any damage and/or damage (whether economic or otherwise) to persons or property, resulting directly or indirectly from any ideas, methods, instructions, or products (including mistakes in the same) related to in any content of Synergy Publishers journals. Any conflict occurring, including any case, shall be directed solely by the laws of Karachi, Pakistan.