PUBLICATION ETHICS

The AGG+ journal is a research publishing community committed to academic integrity and it supports exclusively academic ethical behavior. All participants in the process of research publishing are expected to contribute to values of social and cultural equity, authorship transparency, and intellectual property rights. Concerning the issues of unethical behaviour, the AGG+ publisher and editors will consult the guidelines and recommendations provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). 

All articles are checked by Turnitin software for plagiarism.

In the case of a complaint about the publishing process, the Editor-in-Chief and Section Editor will investigate the matter. They may ask the publisher representative for advice on complicated issues. The Editor-in-Chief and Section Editor decides on a course of action and provides feedback to the complainant.

The authors have the option to retract the article if they identify errors in their work or commit a genuine oversight. Afterwards, the online version of the article will state "retracted by authors." Every link pointing to the removed article will remain active. After an internal review, the editor may retract the article if the editors, reviewers, or readers find instances of plagiarism, fraudulent data use, overlapping publication, or unethical research. The online version of the article will then be marked as "retracted by editor." Every link pointing to the removed article will remain active. All retractions will be done following the COPE retraction guidelines.

Each author is responsible for ensuring that the data presented in the article is accurate. Data should be corrected before the article's final printing. The corresponding author is kindly asked to carefully and on time edit the galley proof of the article before it is published. An erratum will be published in the earliest edition available and uploaded online if authors discover a significant mistake or error in the article as it has been published.