Academic journals carry great responsibilities in maintaining a healthy and balanced academic environment. At the editorial office, our editors work together with authors, external experts, and research communities we serve, to commit to a high ethical standard shared across the scientific community. We strive to ensure the papers we publish are robust and compelling and meet our high standards.

Duties for Authors

1. Authors take sole responsibility for their writing. The article is original (except for review articles) and do not contain any forged, deceptive or plagiarized content. All manuscripts will be tested by Academic Misconduct Literature Check(AMLC) system. The submitted article does not involve confidential issues, infringement related to intellectual property rights, multiple submission, or redundant publication. Authors shall promise that they will not re-submit the article to another journal unless it is rejected by this journal. Proper credit shall be given to references cited in the text. Institutes, projects, and individuals that provide any contribution to the article shall be acknowledged. Comments from reviewers and editors should be respected. The copyright of the article should be transferred to the Editorial Office of Journal of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Engineering. 

Authors shall follow the guidelines below:

1) Multiple Submission

(1) "Multiple submission" in this statement is defined as although there may be some differences in wordings or structure of two articles involved, the theories, main experimental data, and figures involved are identical, or the core content of the article is identical. By “article”, we refer to those published in conference proceedings or journals in any language. However, if a brief report or preliminary report is published in a journal and then the full text of further research is submitted to another journal, it will not be regarded as multiple submissions, whereas authors shall make a statement to the editorial office for such cases.

(2) For a manuscript under review, authors should obtain the consent of the editorial office before re-submitting it to another journal.

(3) If a manuscript is suspected to involve multiple submissions, authors will be notified in time and have the opportunity to provide an explanation. The governing body of the journal will make a judgment if there is any dispute between the authors and the journal.

(4) Once multiple submission is verified, a statement shall be published in the journal including the names and institutes of authors. The article will be removed. The institutes of authors and other journals within the field will be notified.

2) Plagiarism

Plagiarism refers to the deliberate use of others' works without the consent of the original authors, or without proper citation or acknowledgement. Plagiarism includes direct duplicating or rewriting of others' works, which may involve data, words, sentences, paragraphs, ideas and concepts. Plagiarism is strictly prohibited.

3) Authors Contribution and Competing Interests

An author should be a person who participates in topic selection, study design, data analysis, and manuscript drafting. The order of authors shall be determined before submission and shall not be changed thereafter. The change of order could be made only if a consent letter from all authors is provided. Other contributors to the manuscript should be listed in acknowledgment. “Gift author” is strictly prohibited. Manipulation of authorship is academic misconduct and will damage the credibility of the article. The Authors Contribution Form should be signed and provided when making a submission.

All authors must disclose all potential conflicts of interest, i.e., when the financing / personal status/affiliation of the authors (or the authors' organization/employer) may affect the authors' decision, work, or manuscript. When a product is involved, the author should also disclose whether there is a conflict of interest against competitive products. Authors should also submit a Statement of Competing Interests along with the manuscript.

4) Forgery

Forgery refers to data or conclusions that are not obtained from experiments or research, but are forged and tampered with by authors. Date forgery is strictly prohibited.

Duties of Reviewers

1. Reviewers shall guarantee that they review the manuscripts accurately, objectively, and fairly on the basis of scientific quality. They should use their professional knowledge and ability to review the innovation, scientificity, and practicability of manuscripts, and give a fair evaluation on whether the research method is appropriate, whether the scientific research design is reasonable, whether the results and conclusions are accurate, and whether confidential issues are involved, so as to help the editors select manuscripts. They should put forward detailed comments for problems of manuscripts to help authors make revisions.

2. Reviewers should respect the research achievements of authors and avoid reviewing manuscripts with competing interests. The review will only be based on academic standards instead of personal reasons. The selection of manuscripts shall not be affected by authors’ race, gender, religion, belief, social status, qualifications, and authority. The review result should be clearly stated with sufficient arguments and facts.

3. Reviewers shall complete comments on manuscripts and feedback to the editorial office within the specified time. In case of any difficulty, the editorial office shall be informed in time.

4. Reviewers shall keep confidential the content of the manuscripts strictly, and shall not release or discuss the manuscripts with others, nor use or publish the data, opinions, and conclusions of the manuscripts.

5. All review comments and information must be kept confidential and not used for personal purposes.

6. Reviewers should avoid processing manuscripts for which they have competing interests.

Duties of Editors

1. Editors take sole responsibility for publication. It is necessary to communicate, cooperate and negotiate with authors on the ethical issues involved in the process of publishing, to evaluate the manuscripts objectively and fairly (including inviting peer experts), and to select excellent papers that meet the requirements of the journal for publication, in accordance with the aims and requirements of the journal.

2. Editors shall respect the research results of authors and comments of reviewers, maintain the authentic records of the review, and keep confidential the data in all aspects of review and revision. Editors and editorial staff shall not disclose any information related to the submitted manuscripts except for providing necessary information to correspondence authors, reviewers, and editorial committee members as appropriate.

3. Editors shall select articles fairly, and the acceptance or rejection of articles can only be based on originality, significance, clarity of the article, and whether it conforms to the aim and scope of the journal.

4. Editors should encourage academic debate and are obliged to answer questions raised by authors against review comments and results.

5. Editors shall have an obligation to investigate academic misconduct and communicate with authors. Once there is an appeal from the authors, editors shall process the case timely. If necessary, editors shall publish corrections, clarifications, withdrawals, or apologies in a timely manner. Editors have the right to trace back the responsibility of authors and reviewers for their academic misconduct.

6. Editors shall protect the information submitted by authors and the identity information of reviewers and other relevant personnel in the editorial office during the blind review.

7. Editors should avoid processing manuscripts for which they have competing interests.

Advertising Policy

Journal of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Engineering does not accept advertising cooperation. No commercial advertisements will be published in the journal or on the journal's official website.