General information
Journal of Entomological Society of Iran (JESI) adheres to the highest standards of publication ethics. The journal strictly adheres to the rules of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)(https://publicationethics.org) as "Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing). Entomological Society of Iran tries to enforce the COPE Toolkit laws effectively (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/ethics-toolkit-successful-editorial-office). JESI strongly encourage all editors, authors, and reviewers to read those protocols and familiarize themselves with them.
JESI only considers original submissions that have not been previously published or are not under simultaneous review by other journals. The corresponding author must guarantee that all authors are informed of and consent to the manuscript's submission, which must be confirmed in writing and submitted along with the manuscript. Authors must also ensure their manuscript complies with JESI's "Guide for Authors" before submission.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
JESI promote diversity, equality and inclusion throughout journal publication. We ask Editor-in-chief, editors and reviewers to pay serious attention to this statement. We always do our best to avoid biases. Our guidelines are those of COPE (https://publicationethics.org/diversity-equity-inclusion-accessibility-position-statement).
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by 193 United Nations member states in 2015, aim to increase living standards everywhere by eliminating hunger, poverty, and gender inequality while protecting the planet. The SDGs publisher compact included 10 approaches that publishers can follow to contribute to the SDGs plan during 2020-2013.
The Journal of Entomological Society of Iran signed the publisher compact in December 2024, and here, we are the first Journal in Iran to do this action. Committed to the SDGs, the Journal mainly focused on three aims of SDGS: 4, 9, and 12. These goals are related to research, education, and sustainable development. The Journal hopes to work toward more environmentally sustainable solutions like the rational use of insecticides, increase the use of non-chemical pest control tactics like biological control, and provide more information about concerns related to chemical pesticides and need for permanent solutions like organic farming as a key approach toward a more sustainable world.
Authorship and Contributorship Policy
All authors are responsible for ensuring the accuracy and validity of their research. The corresponding author must follow COPE rules (https://publicationethics.org/authorship) and confirm that all authors have read the MS and endorsed it before submission. Authors must also guarantee the originality of their work, ensuring that all material is the result of their research.
Any author has to assign based on the four criteria as defined by the ICMJES, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (https://www.icmje.org/).
1) substantial involvement in the design of the project, creation, contributions to the ideation or definition of the project; commentary, data analysis and their analysis or interpretation for the work.
2) preparing the early draft or working on the manuscript substantially to improve its content.
3) approving the final version of the manuscript.
4) responsible for any case related to the work and clarifying all questions to ensure that issues related to the rightness or honesty of any aspect of the project are resolved properly.
Author's Contributions Statement
Every manuscript must include an "Author Contribution Statement" section corresponding to the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT). This section outlines each author's role in manuscript preparation and is positioned before the reference list. For CRediT roles, see https://credit.niso.org. The JESI asks the author(s) to use these terms and provide a role statement: Conceptualization, Methodology, Formal analysis, Investigation, Draft preparation, Final review and edit, Visualization, Supervision, Project administration, and Funding acquisition.
Alteration to Authorship
Any changes to the authorship after the initial submission, including additions, deletions, changes in the order of authors' names, or modifications to the attribution of contributions, must be approved by all authors and explained to the Editor. The Editor reserves the right to contact any of the authors and/or contributors to verify their agreement to any such alterations. We follow the COPE rules for this case (https://publicationethics.org/files/International%20standards_authors_for%20website_11_Nov_2011.pdf).
Acknowledgment
Non-author contributors who meet fewer than all aforementioned four ICMJE (https://www.icmje.org/) criteria for authorship but significantly contributed to the research should not be listed as authors, but they should be acknowledged.
Conflict of Interest Statement
Every manuscript must include a "Conflict of Interest Statement" section in which any relevant direct or indirect associations and/or financial and/or non-financial interests (including but not limited to consultancies/advisory board, stock ownerships/options, equity interest, patents received or pending, royalties/honorary) with any organization or commercial entity within the past 5 years and for the foreseeable future that is important to the outcome of the study should be clearly stated.
If authors doubt whether they should disclose any particular direct or indirect association or financial involvement not listed above, they should seek advice from the Journal's Office( j.ent.soc.Iran@gmail.com) before the submission. In addition, during the submission, a filled and signed Conflict of Interest (COI) disclosure form must be uploaded.
AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Related Technology Use
Each manuscript must include an "AI and related technologies use" declaration in the main file before the reference part. Here the author should provide detailed information about how they used AI technology like Large Language Models (LLMS), Chatbots like ChatGPT, or any image improvement software.
This declaration does not apply to the use of some prevalent appliance to the data and apply it as key research element, grammar and spelling checkers to polish up the MS structure and language quality, and formatting the references. This statement should appear in the published paper. In the absence of any use of AI-related technology, authors should write "None" in that section. The author has the final responsibility to ensure about validity, originality, and honesty of the work. Artificial intelligence (AI) and any other related technologies must not be credited as authors or co-authors of a manuscript. We follow the COPE and related protocols for AI and related technology (https://publicationethics.org/cope-position-statements/ai-author).
Funding
All manuscripts are required to include a section for funding acknowledgment. Authors(s) should report any funding sources. The name of the funding source and the corresponding grant number should be clearly stated. For example" This work was supported by the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad [ grant number xyz]". If no funds were received, then they need to affirm as this "This research received no specific grant from any source of funds."
Plagiarism Policy
We employ plagiarism detection software [iThenticate (https://www.ithenticate.com/) and Grammerly (www.grammarly.com) for English and Hamanadjoo (https://tik.irandoc.ac.ir/) from Irandoc source for Persian documents] to assess text similarities and originality. Plagiarism, in any form, including unacknowledged quotations or presenting another's work as one's own, is considered unethical and unacceptable. JESI considers all types of ghost, guest and gift autorship as unethical issues. Authors must ensure about originality and novelty of their work their submission is original and has not been previously published or submitted simultaneously to another journal. Citation manipulation, improper assignment of credits or authorship, data fabrication, redundant publication, duplicate publication, dishonest communications and simultaneous submission are other types of plagiarisms. The JESI will immediatly reject any papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism. If the manuscript has not compiled with the criterial for plagiarism rules, it will be rejected (befor acceptance ) or retracted (after publication).
Human and Animal Rights
JESI strictly adheres to protocols concerning human and animal rights. For manuscripts related to medical investigations involving human participants, we require author(s) to provide a statement which shows the ethics committee confirmed the study and compliance with the relevant standards outlined in one of these sources:
The Declaration of Helsinki (https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma.declaration-of-Helsinki/)
US Federal Policy for Protection of Human Subjects (https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/common-rules/index.html)
European Medicines Agency Guidelines for Good Clinical Practices (https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory-overview/research-development/good-clinical-practice)
If the author (s) has/have used chemicals, methods, or equipment harmful to human health, they must explicitly mention these in the manuscript.
Copyright and Open Access License
JESI is an open-access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en). The license permits unrestricted use, copying, and redistribution of the contents in any format or medium. It also allows for remixing, transforming, and building upon the material if it is Non-commercial and the original author(s) are given appropriate credit.
All authors must fix any case of copyright matter while using any material like a figure or table from a non-open access source. The corresponding author must complete and sign the copyright form (Authors agreement) and submit it along with the other components of the manuscript.
Data Sharing and Reproducibility
JESI encourages author (s) to share their data, as this facilitates reproducibility, reduces redundant research efforts, and enables purposeful reuse. Reliable data repositories include Dryad (https://datadryad.org/stash) or Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/).
Peer Review Policy
All materials published in the JESI are peer-reviewed based on open peer review (single-blind peer review).Reviewers assist the Editors of JESI in making decisions regarding manuscript acceptance and contribute to the improvement of the manuscript through their feedback. Each manuscript is initially screened by the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) in terms of structure and content. If it meets the scope and standard of the journal, it will be sent to an appropriate section editor. The section editor evaluates the manuscript based on its novelty, structure, and plagiarism. If the manuscript passes this initial editor check, then it will enter the external review process, where, two to three referees will evaluate it within a specified timeframe. In another word, each article undergoes two stages of evaluation: an internal evaluation by the EIC and the section editor followed by an external review phase. The EIC makes the final decision based on the reviewer reports and also the suggestions of the section editor.
The key criteria for assessing manuscript quality include originality, novelty, a worthy contribution to entomology and its related fields, as well as the provision of new information. Additional factors include the manuscript's structure, adherence to author guidelines, reference quality, and English writing style, including grammar, spelling, and punctuation. The JESI strongly expects reviewers to be confident during the review process. We encourage the reviewer to provide a two-paragraph report addressing the aims, questions, and hypotheses of the MS including its contribution to the area of research. The report should highlight the importance of the work and provide a conceptual short message to explain interesting aspects, scientific methods, and conclusions based on the data.
Reviewers who feel unqualified to evaluate a manuscript should decline the request. They must follow the COPE guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/peerreview).
The JESI always seeking reviewers who can provide critical and constructive comments while remaining anonymous and adhering to the deadlines. If there is any conflict of interest, like professional relations, friendship, collaboration or competition, the reviewers should decline the invitation for the review.
The journal policy is to improving review process and use more qualified international reviewers. Over the past four years, from 2020 to 2024, the use of international reviewers has risen to roughly one-third.
Process to Manage Research and Publication Misconduct
If, at any stage of submission, evaluation, and publishing of an article, we discover a case of fraud or non-compliance with ethical ethics standards, we will follow the COPE guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Flowcharts), and the JESI reserves the right to inform the corresponding author(s) and the affiliated organization.In the case of any misconduct, a committee, including the chief editor and selected editors, experts in the subject, as determined by the chief editor, will start to investigate the case. The action will be taken based on the guidelines of the COPE. Here, the policies of the COPE follow. Any concerns or cases regarding publishing ethics issues should be reported to the Editor in Chief (jkb@um.ac.ir). Based on the COPE's guidelines, the editor will act as soon as possible.
Post-publication Discussion and Correction
The JESI provided an item titled " Send comment about this paper”. Here there is a chance to send any comment to the chief editor up to one month before the final publication The JESI policy about correcting, revising, or retracting the paper after publication depended mainly on the quality and content of the comment. When we receive a worthy comment that is useful for our community, we will follow it to fix the case and show it on the paper webpage below the references section.
Appeal Policy
When the author (s) of a manuscript disagree about their manuscript, they have the right to appeal. In such cases, the author(s) should contact the chief editor of JESI. The chief editor will then review the editor and reviewers' review. Additionally, the chief editor has the option to send the manuscript to a new reviewer for further assessment. Ultimately, the final decision rests with the editorial board, with the editor overseeing the process.
Other Common Procedures: Implemenation of Declaration on Research Assesment (DORA) Recommendations:
The Journal of Entomological Society of Iran is a signatory of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Based on this:
We will provide diverse metrics for fair evaluation.
We use the CRediT author system to provide clear authorship responsibility.
We release all references along with the full paper online.
We are trying to encourage authors to cite primary literature.
We don’t have any restrictions about reference number.
Commitment to Excellence
By adhering to these unique ethical standards, JESI fosters a publishing environment that prioritizes originality, integrity, and collaboration, setting it apart in the field of entomological research.
Diversity of Editorial Boards of JESI
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