Code of ethics

To reach the highest standards in Publication Ethics, Archives of Thermodynamics has implemented the Core Practices recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics. While the most extensive elaboration of COPE Core Practices can be found at:
https://publicationethics.org/ https://publicationethics.org/files/editable-bean/COPE_Core_Practices_0.pdf
the purpose of this note is to remind all members of the publication process, including Authors, Reviewers and Editors, of their responsibilities to abide by all the principles of publication ethics and illustrate below some important points in our editorial day-to-day practice.
Authorship and contributorship

The submitted papers should fall within the journal scope and should be prepared according to the standards specified at the journal home page.
The submitted papers should describe the original research of the authors. The authors are responsible for the accuracy and precision of the content.
Submission of a manuscript implies that the work is not copyrighted, published elsewhere, except in abstract form. The submitted paper or part of it should not have been published in another journal nor should be considered for publication elsewhere. Also publishing a previously published material subject to small changes under a different title is not allowed.
Any use of other studies should be properly documented and referenced. For exact citing of sentences of other authors quotation marks should be used. To reproduce pictures and tables from other works, an explicit written permission from the author of the original study is necessary.
The authors of a paper are all who contributed to the research or writing of the paper, but not others.
The corresponding author is responsible for providing all necessary information for all authors of the paper. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors agree on its submission and accept the order of their names as authors.
The statements that appear in a paper are those of the authors not journal board members.
If an inaccuracy or error is found in a paper, the authors should make efforts to correct it and immediately inform the journal.
In case of Research and Publication Misconduct detected at any stage of the publication process, the journal has the right to take legal actions against violating authors.

Copyright
The corresponding author grants the journal rights for commercial use of the paper such as reproduction, distribution and selling to customers.
Conflict of interest
When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influence his/her judgment. If no specified acknowledgement is given, the journal assumes that no conflict of interest exists.
Research and Publication Misconduct
Below are examples of cases that will be considered by the journal Research and Publication Misconduct:

fabrication or falsification of data,
plagiarism (note that the journal routinely screens article submissions for plagiarism),
duplicate submissions and overlapping publication,
manipulating authorship by adding false or gift authors and hiding true authors,
manipulating affiliation by adding false affiliation of an author.

The journal will take seriously any allegation of misconduct. If an occurrence of misconduct is confirmed at any stage of the publication process, including submission, review or revision, the journal reserves its right to stop the review process before publication or removal of the article from the publication list and will act according to the law.