{"id":2861,"date":"2025-11-05T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iserd.net\/?page_id=2861"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:42:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:42:45","slug":"publishing-policies-and-best-practice-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iserd.net\/?page_id=2861","title":{"rendered":"Publishing Policies and Best Practice Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Journal of Environmental and Rural Development (IJERD) aligns its publishing policies and best practice guidelines with multiple international and scholarly organizations including The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), as guided by their seminal work published as the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing<\/em>.\u00a0 (COPE DOAJ OASPA Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.24318\/cope.2019.1.12).<\/p>\n

Read the policy overview here<\/strong><\/em> ==>IJERD Publishing Policy_Updated_October 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Specific Policy details include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Editorial Independence<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n
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\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Use of Inclusive Language <\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peer Review Process<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nJurisdictional Claims <\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Authorship and Contributions<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nAllegations of Misconduct<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conflict of Interest Disclosure<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nPreprints and Open Science<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plagiarism and Redundant Publication<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nUse of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools and Applications<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ethical Compliance for Human and Animal Research<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nReporting Gender- and Gender-Based Analyses<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Data Availability and Reproducibility<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nCorrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Funding Sources<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nPublishing Agreement<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Permission for Copyrighted Works<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nProof Correction<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Archiving & Long-Term Preservation Policy <\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nDOI, Metadata, and Bibliographic Consistency Policy<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Statement on Digital Accessibility and Open Availability<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nTransparency of Journal Operations and Accessibility of Policies<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Notes<\/strong>: These publishing policies and best practice guidelines are subject to review and updates to maintain compliance with evolving global standards and indexing requirements.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The International Journal of Environmental and Rural Development (IJERD) aligns its publishing policies and best practice guidelines with multiple international and scholarly organizations including The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), as guided by their seminal work published as the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.\u00a0 (COPE DOAJ OASPA Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.24318\/cope.2019.1.12). Read the policy overview here ==>IJERD Publishing Policy_Updated_October 2025 Specific Policy details include: Editorial Independence Use of Inclusive Language Peer Review Process Jurisdictional Claims Authorship and Contributions Allegations of Misconduct Conflict of Interest Disclosure … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2861","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3yA9D-K9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iserd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iserd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iserd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iserd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iserd.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.iserd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3225,"href":"https:\/\/www.iserd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2861\/revisions\/3225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iserd.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}