Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

We follow the Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal. Our publication ethics and publication malpractice statement is mainly based on following statements.

Ethical Guidelines for Journal Publication

Ghodaghodi Review an interdisciplinary academic research journal (website: www.ghodaghodicampus.edu.np) is committed to ensure ethics in publication of quality articles.

General Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

Editors should be responsible for everything published in their journals. They should:

1. Endeavor to meet the demands of readers and authors.
2. Constantly try to improve the standard of journal.
3. Ensure the quality & originality of the material they publish.
4. Adept for freedom of expression.
5. Maintain the integrity of the academic record.
6. Rule out business needs from compromising intellectual standards.
7. Always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.
8. Publication Decisions: Based on the review report, the Editor-in-Chief has complete responsibility and authority to accept, reject, or request modifications to the manuscript. Current legal requirements regarding copyright infringement, and plagiarism should also be considered.
9. Review of Manuscripts: Editor must ensure that the reviewer initially evaluates each manuscript for originality of manuscript. All manuscripts are screened by appropriate software to find out similarity check.
10. Double blind Review: The editor must ensure that each manuscript submitted to the Ghodaghodi Review is submitted without the authors’ name in the manuscript. If not, it is duty of editor to delete the names before assigning the reviewer. Secondly, it is the duty of editor to maintain confidentiality of reviewer name to author also.
11. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: The editor of this Journal shall not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for his/her own research without written consent of the author.
12. Review on Priority of Time: Editors should aim to ensure timely peer review and publication and should avoid unnecessary delays. Editors should consider how best to share information with authors about any delays that occur.
13. Manuscripts of Editorial Board Member: Editors or board members should not be involved in editorial decisions about their own scholarly work. If chief editor/editor contributes his/her papers; these papers must be reviewed by those reviewers who are not related with editorial board members.
14. Ethical Guidelines: The editor shall ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
15. Unbiased Behavior: The editor should not reject papers based on suspicions; they should have proof of misconduct to author.

Responsibilities of Reviewers

1. Confidentiality: Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
2. Acknowledgement & Citations of Sources: Reviewers must ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources of data used in the research. They must check the copyright and permissions of secondary data used in the manuscript.
3. Supporting Argument: Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments regarding acceptance, correction and rejection.
4. Plagiarism, Fraud and Other Ethical Concerns: Reviewers should clearly report to the editor if he suspect/find that a manuscript is a substantial copy of another work, citing the previous work in as much detail as possible & other ethical issues.
5. Relevant Work: It is the duty of reviewers to identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
6. Conflicts of Interest: Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
7. Promptness: If reviewer feels it is not possible for him/her to complete review of manuscript within given time, then, he/she should information promptly to the editor, so that the manuscript could be sent to another reviewer.

Responsibilities of Authors

1. Publication guidelines: Authors must follow the submission guidelines of the journal available at website www.ghodaghodicampus.edu.np.
2. Multiple Submissions: Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently submitted elsewhere for publication.
3. Original Work: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original work. Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
4. Revision of Manuscript: Authors must participate in the revision of manuscript according to suggestions of reviewer after peer review process.
5. Authorship of the Paper: All authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research. It is moral duty of authors to avoid authors without contribution.
6. Authenticity of Data: Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript. Authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.
7. Data Access and Retention: Authors should provide raw data related to their manuscript for editorial review and must retain such data.
8. Conflict of Interest: Authors must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.
9. Ethical Issues: When appropriate, all authors must cite approval by an ethical approval agency for research on human and/or animal subjects.

ContactFor further details:

Research Committee,

Ghodaghodi Multiple Campus, Sukhad, Kailali, Nepal

Contact No.: 091-403117/ 091-403118

Email: research@gmc.edu.np

Website: www.ghodaghodicampus.edu.np

Guidelines for the Submission of Journal Articles

Ghodaghodi Multiple Campus, Research Committee yearly publication, multidisciplinary academic research journal Ghodaghodi Review warmly welcomes original research articles from scholars, intellectuals, and researchers from education, management, Science, humanities and other disciplines of national priority area. Articles for the journal must be of high quality, must be research-based and must fall within the scope of the journal. Authors submitting articles to the Research Committee must follow the guidelines below:

1. Articles must be written in English. Only the subject area occupying Nepali language and literature can be submitted in Nepali.
2. Two hard copies of single side printed manuscript and a soft copy along with duly signed ‘cover letter and authorization form’ must be submitted by the author.
3. Articles submitted to the Research Committee must be original work of the author(s) listed, and not previously published in part or full.
4. All submissions should be a single Microsoft Word file, with figures (graphics) and tables embedded within them.
5. An article must have a minimum of 3,000 words, but should not exceed 7000 words or not more than 10 pages of single line space A4 size paper and Times New Roman 12 point font size. The text or paragraphs should be left aligned only with a paragraph space.
6. Articles should be consistent in style throughout, especially if different authors have contributed sections. All submissions are expected to contain scholarly citations, including layout formats of APA style.
7. The following components should be included in all articles that are intended to help you achieve a clear, consistent style that is easy to read. All submissions must include a cover page that bears the title of the article, the author’s name and affiliation, and an abstract with keywords. The name of the author should not appear in any part of the text.
   1. Title
   1. Author’s information (name, position, affiliation, address, email address)
   1. Abstract (within 150 to 250 words)
   1. Keywords (not more than five words or phrases)
   1. Main Headings (sub-headings are optional; include introduction, body with several headings, and conclusion; recommendation is optional)
   1. Acknowledgements (Optional)
   1. References
8. All submissions will be assessed by two blind reviewers to determine whether they fall within the nature of our journal and meet our requirements.
9. The respective authors should take all ethical responsibility for submitted and published articles; if submitted articles are found plagiarized they will directly be rejected without review. The authors should also agree on the terms and conditions of the copyright authorization of the articles to the journal while submitting the final version of the articles.
10. Submissions that deviate from the above guidelines will be returned to the corresponding authors for correction. Because the guidelines are updated as appropriate, authors should check them again before they submit their articles.
11. Each issue of the journal will publish a maximum of 10 articles. All submissions will be evaluated and selected as per the reports obtained from the blind reviewers. However, the decision of the editorial board will be final.
12. For any dispute regarding the selection of the manuscript for publication, the decision of the editorial board will be final.

ContactFor further details:

Research Committee,

Ghodaghodi Multiple Campus, Sukhad, Kailali, Nepal

Contact No.: 091-403117/ 091-403118

Email: research@gmc.edu.np

Website: www.ghodaghodicampus.edu.np