Editorial Policies

The Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Submission of a manuscript to the journal implies that all authors have read and agreed to its content and that the manuscript conforms to the journal's policies.

The journal does not accept adverts from third parties.

Affiliations

Authors must list all relevant affiliations to attribute where the research was approved and/or supported and/or conducted. For non-research articles, authors must list their current institutional affiliation. In cases where an author has moved to a different institution before the article has been published, they should list the affiliation where the work was conducted, and the current affiliation and contact details should be listed in the acknowledgment section. Change of affiliation alone is not a valid reason to remove an author from a publication if he or she meets the authorship criteria.

Appeals and complaints

The journal follows Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines on appeals to journal editor decisions and complaints about a journal's editorial management of the peer review process.

We welcome genuine appeals to editor decisions. However, you will need to provide strong evidence or new data/information in response to the editor's and reviewers' comments.

An appeal is less likely to reverse an editor's decision for opinion-based scholarly papers. These can be opinions and points of view where the editors' assessment of readability and relevancy is given the greatest weight. Either way, every opinion piece needs to be supported by ample references and solid facts. In publications that are opinion-driven, you should always give your supporting data and a justification for your conclusions.

Editors seldom modify their initial decisions and don't anticipate receiving many appeals. It is therefore highly recommended that you submit your paper to another magazine if you receive a rejection letter. The editor's assessment of priority and importance plays a significant role in whether or not to reject a submission for publication. Typically, writers are unable to address these issues with an appeal.

Acknowledgment

Any contributors to the article (general supervision, funding acquisition, study design, data collection, data analysis, technical assistance, writing assistance related to formatting, scholarly discussions that significantly influenced the development of the article, etc.) who do not fit the requirements for authorship should be identified by name and affiliation in a section titled "Acknowledgments." The writers are accountable for notifying and securing consent from the people they want to mention in this section. Sharing the article should be part of the permissions procedure so that the people whose names are being mentioned can confirm the context of their acknowledgement.

Under these topics, groups of people who have made significant contributions to the article but whose contributions do not support authorship may be noted.

Authorship

Listing authors' names on an article is an important mechanism to give credit to those who have significantly contributed to the work. It also ensures transparency for those who are responsible for the integrity of the content.

Authors listed in an article must meet all of the following criteria:

Made a significant contribution to the work reported, whether that's in the conception, study design, execution, acquisition of data, analysis, and interpretation, or in all these areas.
Have drafted or written, substantially revised, or critically reviewed the article.
Have agreed on the journal to which the article will be submitted.
Reviewed and agreed on all versions of the article before submission, during revision, the final version accepted for publication, and any significant changes introduced at the proofing stage.
Agree to take responsibility and be accountable for the contents of the article and to share the responsibility to resolve any questions raised about the accuracy or integrity of the published work.

Any changes in authorship before or after publication must be agreed upon by all authors, including those being added or removed. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to obtain confirmation from all co-authors and to provide a full explanation about why the change was necessary. If a change in authorship is necessary after the publication of the article, this will be amended via a post-publication notice. Any changes in authorship must comply with our criteria for authorship, and requests for significant changes to the authorship list after the article has been accepted may be rejected if clear reasons and evidence of author contributions cannot be provided.

Authorship Criteria

Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to each of the three elements listed below:

Study concept and design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation;
Article drafting or critical revision for significant intellectual content; and
Final approval of the draft publication.

Authorship is not justified by involvement in the acquisition of money or data collecting alone. Being an author requires more than just the research group's general oversight. Each contributor ought to have contributed enough to the project to be able to accept accountability in public for the relevant sections of the manuscript's content. The contributors' respective contributions to the study and article authoring should determine the order in which their names are listed. Orders cannot be modified once they are submitted without the express written agreement

Contribution Details

Contributors ought to list the specific contributions they each made to the manuscript. Concept, design, definition of intellectual content, literature search, clinical studies, experimental studies, data acquisition, data analysis, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, manuscript editing, and manuscript review are the categories into which the description should be divided, as appropriate. The article will be printed with the inputs of the writers. 'Guarantors' are those writers who, from the beginning to the end, accept accountability for the work's integrity.

Citations

Both research and non-research pieces must cite timely, pertinent, and verified literature—where applicable, peer-reviewed—to back up any assertions they make. Author groups should not prearrange to improperly cite each other's work or engage in excessive and inappropriate self-citation as this might be regarded as citation manipulation. Go over the COPE citation manipulation guidelines. If you are the author of a non-research item (such as a review or opinion), you should make sure the references you list are accurate and give a fair and impartial summary of the status of scholarly work or study on the subject at hand. It is not appropriate for your references to unduly promote a specific publication, organisation, or research group. If you're not sure whether to include a source citation,

Conflicts of Interest/ Competing interests

Any competing interests that are relevant to, or may be seen as relevant to, the paper must be disclosed by you and all of your co-authors.

When you (or your employer, sponsor, family, or friends) have a financial, business, legal, or professional relationship with other organisations, or with the individuals who work for them, it may be a conflicting interest that could affect the research or the interpretation of the findings.
There are two types of competing interests: financial and non-financial. You must also disclose any affiliations that others might see as having a conflicting interest in order to maintain transparency.

Corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions

It could occasionally be required to make changes to an article after it has been published. The Editor will carefully review this to make sure that any necessary adjustments are made in compliance with the Committee on Publication Ethics' (COPE) guidelines. A post-publication note that is permanently linked to the original article will accompany any necessary modifications. This may take the shape of a withdrawal, an expression of concern, a correction notice, or, in extreme cases, a removal. Ensuring the integrity of the scholarly record is the aim of this permanent and transparent change process.

Confidentiality

In order to comply with data protection requirements (including GDPR), it is necessary to maintain the secrecy and integrity of the editorial decision-making process and peer review process at all levels. Any conflicting interests should be disclosed by the invited reviewer prior to the report being sent to the publication. When returning their report, they should indicate their names, affiliations, and any pertinent competing interests in the comments for editors section. If they would like to include a colleague as a co-reviewer for an article, they should inquire with the journal editorial office before sharing the manuscript. The submitted manuscript, author, reviewer, and any other parties involved (including whistleblowers) shall be treated in confidentiality during the course of looking into an ethical question. It can be required for the Editor to exchange information with during an investigation.

Copyright Policy

User Rights

Egyptian Journal of Petroleum (EGYJP) is an international journal. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles under the following conditions: CC BY-NC-ND CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Deed | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International | Creative Commons Copyright statement stated here and embedded in each published article.

Open Access Policy

The journal is an open access journal that provides immediate access to its published contents. Articles published are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) which permits non-commercial re-use (download, read, print, search, copy, distribute the link, etc.) of open access articles, as long as the original author and source are properly attributed, and provided the articles are not modified or altered.

Author Rights

Authors assign to Egyptian Journal of Petroleum all copyright in the article. The publisher will be granted publishing and distribution rights. This journal uses a non-exclusive licensing agreement.

Data falsification/fabrication

where intentional steps have been taken to falsify or improperly manipulate data. This is regarded as a significant wrongdoing that aims to deceive others and compromise the credibility of the academic record, with far-reaching and permanent repercussions. Authors are required to make sure all information in their paper is accurate and accurately portrays their work before submitting it to the journal. Authors should keep all raw data included in their manuscripts to aid the journal in reviewing their submissions. Retraction or denial of acceptance of a manuscript or published paper may occur if the original data is not available upon request.

Data sharing policy

Our journal's data sharing policy is to encourage and make it easier for researchers to share research data with one another. In order to expedite this process, we are improving our submission protocols and encouraging and assisting researchers to contribute their data in a timely and acceptable manner. In order to promote optimal access and reuse, we work to standardise our author data guidelines and to provide clarity on data storage and sharing alternatives. To guarantee that efforts to provide data are properly credited, we support appropriate data citation guidelines. We work collaboratively with the scientific community to develop rigorous procedures for data evaluation in order to verify, record, and make it easier for research data that has been published to be reused. In addition, we support research data publication as distinct, peer-reviewed outputs to improve reusability and give authors more credit.

Desk rejection policy

The study's focus and topic are unrelated to the Journal's area of interest.
There are issues with publication ethics, disregard for international standards, and plagiarism (defined as plagiarism with a similarity index more than 12 percent).
Neither the topic's influence nor its contribution to new understanding in the discipline are strong enough.
The study's design is flawed.
There is a vague statement regarding the study's goal.
There are issues with the organization's study or some of its components are absent.
There are issues with writing and a number of grammatical infelicities.
The work does not adhere to the journal's submission guidelines.

Duplicate submission/publication

Since authors must state that their work is not being considered by another journal at the time of submission, it is usually assumed that any duplicate submission or publication was made on purpose. This cover works that have already been published in another language. According to ICMJE guidelines, authors must obtain permission from the original article's publisher and copyright holder for acceptable forms of secondary submissions or publications (such as an English translation of the article) and notify the receiving journal's editor of the original article's history. Additionally, readers must be informed that this is a translated version of the article and be given a link to the original one.

Funding

In their paper, authors are required by the journal to disclose all funding sources, including financial support. The sponsors' involvement, if any, in any phase of the investigation—from study design to manuscript submission for publication—should be detailed by the authors. If the sponsor(s) had no such participation, that should also be stated. Please make sure that this data is correct and meets the requirements of your funder.

Images and figures

Figures and pictures should only be included in your article if they are significant and pertinent to the work that is being discussed. Kindly abstain from contributing anything of this kind, as it is solely illustrative and does not enhance the academic work.

As part of the Journal Author Publishing Agreement that you enter into with us, you warrant that you will get the required written consent before using any content that is owned and protected by copyright by a third party in your article. This includes, but is not limited to, any proprietary text, illustration, table, or other content, data, audio, video, film stills, screenshots, musical notation, and any additional material. Writers need to be cognizant of any cultural sensitivities or limitations linked to any images they incorporate into their works. For instance, pictures.

Misconduct

The journal takes all forms of misconduct seriously and will take all necessary action, in accordance with COPE guidelines, to protect the integrity of the scholarly record.

Affiliation misrepresentation
Breaches in copyright/use of third-party material without appropriate permissions
Citation manipulation
Duplicate submission/publication
"Ethics dumping"
Image or data manipulation/fabrication
Peer review manipulation
Plagiarism
Text-recycling/self-plagiarism
Undisclosed competing interests
Unethical research

Duplicate Submission

If it is discovered that a manuscript has been published or is undergoing review elsewhere, duplicate submission/publication sanctions will apply. Authors must cite prior work and explain how their submitted manuscript adds something new beyond what was included in the previously published work if their previously published or under review work served as the basis for the work that was used to create the submitted manuscript.

Citation Manipulation

Citation manipulation sanctions will apply to submitted publications that contain citations whose main goal is to boost the number of citations to the work of a certain author or to articles published in a specific journal.

Data Fabrication and Falsification

Data fabrication and falsification sanctions will be applied to submitted articles that are discovered to have either manufactured or falsified experimental results, including the modification of pictures.

Improper Author Contribution or Attribution

Each of the listed authors must have given their approval to all of the manuscript's claims and made a substantial scientific contribution to the research. Enumerating all those who have contributed significantly to science, including lab personnel and students, is crucial.

Redundant Publications

Publications that are redundant occur when research findings are improperly divided across multiple papers.

Image manipulation

when a conscious effort has been made to incorrectly alter or create a picture. This is a significant form of misconduct since it aims to deceive people and compromise the credibility of academic research, both of which have far-reaching and permanent repercussions.

The publication requires that all photographs submitted with manuscripts be authentic and unaltered. It is forbidden to add, remove, alter, or blur any particular aspects from an image without providing sufficient notice of the change. If an image's brightness, contrast, or colour balance are changed without obscuring, removing, or distorting information from the original, then the change is allowed. Grouping images from various gel sections, western blots, or microscope images needs to be clearly indicated in the figure.

Publication Ethics

The journal and its editorial board fully adhere to and comply with the policies and principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Duties of Editors

Publication decisions

The journal's editorial board is in charge of selecting which of the submissions for publication should be published. Board members are limited by laws pertaining to plagiarism, copyright infringement, and libel, therefore they consult and take reviewer recommendations into consideration while reaching their judgement. The manuscript's origins, as well as the writers' nationality, ethnicity, political views, race, or religion, have no bearing on the editorial judgements made.

Confidentiality, disclosure, and conflicts of interest

Editors are not allowed to share information about a submitted manuscript with anybody outside of the corresponding author, other editorial advisers, and reviewers or potential reviewers during the review process. Without the author's express written authorization, unpublished materials provided in a submitted manuscript may not be used in the research of an editor, reviewer, or other reader. The research or other scholarly work's funding should be disclosed to readers, along with any involvement they may have had in the research's development and publishing, if any.

Author relations

Editors work hard to make sure that the journal's peer review process is prompt, impartial, and fair. To guarantee an objective evaluation, the journal has set guidelines for managing submissions from its editorial board members. Author guidelines offer direction regarding the requirements for authoring.

Reviewer relations

The Journal invites reviewers to address ethical concerns and potential misconduct brought up by submissions (such as improper data manipulation and unethical research design), and to keep an eye out for plagiarism and duplicate publication. Reviewers' comments, unless they contain abusive or defamatory statements, should be delivered to authors in their entirety. Reviewers' contributions to the journal are often acknowledged, and reviewers who consistently submit rude, subpar, or delayed reviews are removed from the pool.

Quality assurance

Editors should realise that various sections have varied goals and standards, and they should take all possible measures to assure the quality of the information they publish. When one exists, editors should make sure the study they publish has been approved by the relevant body (such as an institutional review board or research ethics committee). Editors ought to remain vigilant on matters of intellectual property and collaborate with their publishers to address any possible infringements of laws and customs. Mistakes, untrue, or deceptive claims have to be quickly and prominently addressed.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to editorial decisions

Reviewers aid the editorial board in their decision-making. In order for writers to utilise reviews and remarks to improve their work, they should be carried out impartially and explicitly, backed up by evidence. It is improper to criticise the author personally.

Qualification of reviewers

If a referee is chosen and feels unfit to examine the research presented in a manuscript or knows that reviewing it quickly won't be feasible, they should inform the editor and withdraw from the review process. Manuscripts containing conflicts of interest arising from competitive, cooperative, or other relationships or affiliations with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the papers should not be considered for consideration by reviewers.

Confidentiality

Manuscripts submitted for review ought to be handled as private correspondence. Ideas or privileged information that have undergone peer review must be kept private and not exploited for selfish gain.

Acknowledgment of sources

Reviewers ought to locate pertinent published literature that the authors have not cited. Citations to other people's ideas must be included when referenced. Any significant resemblance or overlap between the manuscript being considered and any other published material about which the reviewer has firsthand knowledge should be brought to the editor's attention.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards

Writers of original research reports ought to present a factual account of the work completed along with an objective evaluation of its significance. The underlying data should be presented accurately in the study. Authors should be prepared to release raw data to the public upon manuscript submission and retain it for at least two years beyond publication. Making deliberate errors in remarks or lying is unethical and unprofessional.

Originality, plagiarism, and concurrent publication

It is the responsibility of authors to make sure that all of their work is completely unique and that any borrowed words or works are properly cited. Any sort of plagiarism is improper and should be avoided as unethical publishing behaviour. It is unacceptable to submit nearly the identical work to multiple journals at the same time as this is considered unethical publishing behaviour.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Any financial or other significant conflicts of interest that could be interpreted to affect the paper's interpretation or outcomes should be declared by each author in their submission. Disclosure of all funding sources for the project is required.

Authorship of the paper

The corresponding author is responsible for making sure that all relevant co-authors are listed in the manuscript, that no unsuitable co-authors are included, and that all co-authors have reviewed and approved the final draft of the paper before it is submitted for publication. As co-authors, everyone who has contributed significantly ought to be mentioned. It is appropriate to recognise or name other individuals as contributors if they have contributed to any significant parts of the research endeavour.

Fundamental errors in published works

Authors are required to tell the journal editor as soon as they become aware of a substantial error or inaccuracy in their published work. They should then collaborate with the editor to retract or correct the publication.

Peer review process

Every manuscript is put through a peer review process and must adhere to the highest levels of academic quality. Once the editor has given the go-ahead, manuscripts will be evaluated by peer reviewers, who will keep their identities secret from both the authors and the reviewers (double-blind peer review). The editorial board is in charge of deciding whether to accept or reject an article, and it does so by considering the suggestions made by the reviewers (a peer-reviewed procedure).

Sometimes, our Research Integrity team will look for outside counsel for submissions that have significant ethical, security, biosecurity, or societal ramifications. Before determining the best course of action, we may confer with specialists and the academic editor, which may include but is not limited to hiring reviewers.

Plagiarism

The publication has a strong anti-plagiarism policy that forbids utilising another person's words, ideas, or creative output without giving proper credit. Submissions that contain self-plagiarism (in the same or a different language), duplicate and redundant publications, or plagiarism in whole or in part will be disqualified. There will be no recognition of the Preprint archive as a duplicate publication. With the ability to act on behalf of all co-authors, the corresponding author is in charge of the paper during and after the evaluation and publication process. Sophisticated plagiarism-checking software is used to examine all submitted publications for plagiarism. Manuscripts that are submitted and have an unacceptable similarity index due to plagiarism are rejected right away.

Special Issues

Submissions for special issues adhere to the same author standards and procedures as regular issue submissions. It is recommended that aspiring writers go over all submission criteria and follow the specified procedure. The editorial team chooses the topics for special issues, and each year's release of a special issue usually includes a call for submissions.

What is the review process and what are the guidelines for special issues?

The same author criteria and submission procedures apply to all submissions, including those made for special issues. It is recommended that aspiring writers go over all submission criteria and adhere to the specified procedure. The same procedures as for regular journal issues are followed in the review and publication of special issues. The editorial team chooses the topics for special issues, and each year's release of a special issue usually includes a call for submissions. Publication Timing & Review Process

Submissions should comply with the complete author criteria listed here and the required submission formats. Submissions are accepted continuously. The Egyptian Journal of Petroleum publishes special issues every three months. Not always depending on the date of submission, submissions are taken into consideration for inclusion in a pending issue whenever judged ready for publication. The editorial and review process for all original papers, review papers, discussion papers, and special issues is the same, and all issues abide by the rules outlined here. We appreciate it and urge you to submit.

Standards of reporting

The Egyptian Journal of Petroleum urge authors to provide thorough explanations of their research motivation, procedure, methodology, and analysis since we believe that research communication should help verification and reproducibility.

Use of third-party material

To reuse third-party material in an article, obtain permission from the copyright owner. This includes text, illustrations, photographs, tables, data, audio, video, film stills, screenshots, and musical notation. For criticism and review, use short extracts without formal permission.

If the authors used images taken from published research or even internal reports, they must be referenced.

Use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in writing

Note that the use of AI technologies for data analysis and insight-gathering throughout the research phase is not covered by the policy; rather, it only relates to the writing process.

AI and AI-assisted technologies should enhance readability and language in writing, with human oversight and careful review. AI can produce authoritative but potentially biased content, so authors bear responsibility and accountability for their work.

Authors must avoid attributing authorship to AI or listing AI as a co-author, as authorship involves human responsibilities. Authors must address accuracy, integrity, approval, originality, meet authorship criteria, and avoid infringing on third-party rights.