Publication Ethics

The ethical policy of Transportation Materials and Technology is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. For all parties involved in the process of publishing a paper (authors, editors, and reviewers), it is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior. To guarantee high ethical standards, all the parties should commit to these standards.

Standards for Authors:

All authors who submit a paper to Transportation Materials and Technology are supposed to observe the international standards for authors voluntarily.

• Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their original work. Plagiarism, Duplicate, Data Fabrication and Falsification, and Redundant Publications are forbidden.
• Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published and is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.
• If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, the authors must ensure that the work and/or words of others are appropriately cited or quoted and identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscripts.
• When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal's editor to retract or correct the paper.
• Authors must notify the journal of any conflicts of interest.

Standards for Editors:

Editors and Editorial Board Members are required to follow the international standards for Editorial Board:

• They must keep information pertaining to all submitted manuscripts confidential.
• They are responsible for making publication decisions for submitted manuscripts.
• They must strive to meet the needs of readers and authors.
• They must evaluate manuscripts only for their intellectual content.
• They must strive to constantly improve their journals.
• They must maintain the integrity of the academic record.
• They must disclose any conflicts of interest and preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards.
• They must always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.

Standards for Reviewers:

Reviewers are also expected to meet the international standards for reviewers when they accept review invitations.

• Reviewers must keep information pertaining to the manuscript confidential.
• Reviewers must bring to the attention of the Editors any information that may be a reason to reject the publication of a manuscript.
• Reviewers must evaluate manuscripts only for their intellectual content.
• Reviewers must objectively evaluate the manuscripts based only on their originality, significance, and relevance to the domains of the journal.
• Reviewers must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.

Conflict of Interest

Authors are requested to evident whether impending conflicts do or do not exist. If an organization encompasses any financial interest in the outcome of the study, the authors are appealed to provide a declaration that has full access to all the data in the study and take complete responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. All studies (if necessary based on the type and subject), must be approved by the relevant Ethics Committee/ Institution review board of the respective institutions. Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to be originated by the authors. A copyright transfer agreement is signed by the corresponding author, upon the acceptance of the manuscript, on behalf of all authors, for publication to be legally responsible for the Journal ethics and privacy policy. Authors will be notified as soon as possible of decisions concerning the suitability of their manuscripts for publication in the journal. Once the article has been accepted for publication, it will be copy edited and typeset, after which the corresponding author will be sent information on accessing page proofs to correct. Other than the correction of typographical errors, alterations cannot be made at this stage. Please note that there are no page charges to publish in Transportation Materials and Technology. The submitted materials may be considered for inclusion but cannot be returned and Editors of the Journal reserve the right to accept or reject any article at any stage, if necessary.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you find that any work published with Transportation Materials and Technology potentially violates the publication ethics: