Advanced Materials Letters follows strict ethical guidelines to ensure the publication process's integrity, fairness, and transparency. Our policies are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines, ensuring ethical behavior from all parties involved, including authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher.
Editorial Responsibilities
Publication Decisions: The Editor-in-Chief decides which submitted articles will be published. This decision is made in consultation with editors and peer reviewers, considering the journal’s policies and legal requirements for libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.
Fair Play: Manuscripts are evaluated solely on their academic merit, without discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, or political beliefs.
Confidentiality: Editors and the editorial team must not disclose any information about submitted manuscripts to anyone except the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, editorial advisors, and the publisher.
Disclosure & Conflicts of Interest: Unpublished materials from submitted manuscripts cannot be used in an editor’s research without the author’s written consent.
Reviewer Responsibilities
Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Reviewers assist editors in making publication decisions and help authors improve their work through constructive feedback.
Confidentiality: Manuscripts under review must be treated as confidential and not shared or discussed without authorization.
Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively, with clear, well-supported arguments. Personal criticism of authors is inappropriate.
Acknowledgment of Sources: Reviewers must identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors and report any significant similarity between the manuscript and other published work.
Disclosure & Conflicts of Interest: Reviewers must not review manuscripts with conflicts of interest due to competitive, collaborative, or financial relationships with the authors, institutions, or companies involved.
Author Responsibilities
Reporting Standards: Authors should present an accurate, honest, and objective account of their research with sufficient detail and references for others to replicate the study. Fabrication, falsification, or intentional misrepresentation is unethical and unacceptable.
Data Access & Retention: Authors may be required to provide raw data for editorial review and should ensure data availability for a reasonable period after publication.
Originality & Plagiarism: Authors must ensure their work is original and appropriately cite or quote the work of others. Plagiarism in any form is unacceptable.
Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: Submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals concurrently is unethical. Authors must not publish substantially similar research in multiple journals without proper justification.
Acknowledgment of Sources: Proper credit must be given to all referenced works that influenced the research.
Authorship & Contribution: Authorship should be limited to individuals who have contributed significantly to the study’s conception, design, execution, or interpretation. All co-authors must approve the final manuscript before submission.
Hazards & Ethical Considerations: If research involves hazardous materials, human participants, or animals, authors must clearly identify any risks and confirm compliance with ethical standards.
Disclosure & Conflicts of Interest: Authors must disclose any financial or personal conflicts of interest that could affect the research results or interpretation. All sources of funding must be acknowledged.
Corrections & Retractions: If an author discovers a significant error in their published work, they must promptly notify the journal editor and cooperate to retract or correct the article.
Advanced Materials Letters is committed to upholding the highest ethical standards in academic publishing to ensure credibility, integrity, and transparency in scientific research.
AI Ethics & Use in Publishing
Advanced Materials Letters recognizes the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in research and publishing. To maintain integrity, transparency, and ethical standards, the following guidelines govern AI-generated content and its use in manuscript preparation, peer review, and editorial processes:
Use of AI in Research & Writing
- AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, language models, or automated writing assistants) may be used for grammar correction, language enhancement, and data analysis but should not generate original scientific content, data, or conclusions.
- Authors must disclose the use of AI tools in manuscript preparation, specifying their role in the methods or acknowledgments section.
- AI-generated content must be carefully reviewed, fact-checked, and verified by authors to ensure accuracy, originality, and scientific validity.
AI & Plagiarism
- AI-generated text must not be presented as original research without proper validation.
- The use of AI in plagiarism detection and manuscript screening is encouraged, but human reviewers should make final evaluations.
AI in Peer Review & Editorial Processes
- AI tools may assist in plagiarism detection, language assessment, and citation checks, but manuscript quality, originality, and acceptance decisions remain human-led.
- Reviewers and editors must ensure AI-generated content does not compromise academic integrity or peer-review objectivity.
Accountability & Ethical Compliance
- The authors remain fully responsible for their manuscripts, even if AI-assisted tools were used.
- The journal does not accept AI as an author, as AI lacks accountability for research integrity and ethical compliance.
- Any attempt to misrepresent AI-generated content as human-authored scientific work is considered academic misconduct.
Advanced Materials Letters is committed to ethical AI use in scientific publishing, ensuring that technological advancements support research integrity, originality, and transparency.