European Online Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Focus and Scope

European Online Journal of Natural and Social Sciences publishes papers concerned with the advance of natural and social researches. The journal is interested in original scientific works related to fundamental and applied studies in most aspects of life and earth sciences, interactions of environment with human society and a broad-ranging view of social studies, etc.

European Online Journal of Natural and Social Sciences covers the following main subjects:

In natural sciences: biology, chemistry, food chemistry and biochemistry, ecology, agriculture and environment, etc.

In social sciences: economics and management, culturology, history, etc.

Section Policies

Natural science section

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Social science section

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All submitted manuscripts adhering to journal guidelines are evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief or experts from the Editorial Board and suitable manuscripts are then delivered to a peer-review process with two anonymous external reviewers involved (single-blind review). The reviewers receive a manuscript with the author's name and affiliation, and the author gets the review(s) without the reviewers' names. After reviewing, the Editorial Board prepares a decision letter according to the comments of the specialists, which is sent to the corresponding author. Manuscripts not coinciding with journal guidelines will be returned to authors without scientific evaluation. Referees may request a revision of the article to be made. In this case, it is generally understood that only one revised version can be considered for a further appraisal under the peer-review system. The Editorial Board of our journal is responsible for the final selection of referees to conduct the peer-review process for that journal. The names of referees will not be made available to authors. However, referees will be informed as to the identity of the authors whose articles are subject to review. All members of the Editorial Board and referees are asked to declare any competing interests they may have in reviewing a manuscript. If on receiving the editorial decision concerning their manuscript authors are not satisfied they are invited to appeal to the Editorial Office. In cases in which this is considered appropriate a second opinion on the manuscript will be requested.

Publication Frequency

All papers are published as soon as they have been accepted, by adding them to the "current" volume's Table of Contents.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Editorial opinion may not coincide with the point of the view of the authors of published materials.

Ethics

In order to provide our readers with a journal of highest quality we state the following principles of Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement. All articles not in accordance with these standards will be removed from the publication if malpractice is discovered at any time even after the publication.

All research articles published by European Online Journal of Natural and Social Sciences are subject to a rigorous ethical standards. Our journal endorses the CORE PRACTICES of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Plagiarism

The Editorial Board of our journal will immediately screen all articles submitted for publication in that journal. All submissions we receive are checked for plagiarism by using online available tools as iThenticate®. Any type of plagiarism is unacceptable and is considered unethical publishing behavior. Such manuscripts will be rejected.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship means a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study made by the authors. Only those who significantly contributed to the research should be listed as co-authors. Less significant contributions should be mentioned in an acknowledgments section instead.

Conflict of Interests

Conflict of interest exists when an author (or the author's institution), reviewer, or editor has financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence (bias) his or her actions (such relationships are also known as dual commitments, competing interests, or competing loyalties). These relationships vary from negligible to great potential for influencing judgment. Not all relationships represent true conflict of interest. On the other hand, the potential for conflict of interest can exist regardless of whether an individual believes that the relationship affects his or her scientific judgment. Financial relationships (such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, and paid expert testimony) are the most easily identifiable conflicts of interest and the most likely to undermine the credibility of the journal, the authors, and of science itself. However, conflicts can occur for other reasons, such as personal relationships, academic competition, and intellectual passion.

All participants in the peer-review and publication process must disclose all relationships that could be viewed as potential conflicts of interest. Disclosure of such relationships is also important in connection with editorials and review articles, because it can be more difficult to detect bias in these types of publications than in reports of original research. Editors may use information disclosed in conflict-of-interest and financial-interest statements as a basis for editorial decisions.

When authors submit a manuscript, whether an article or a letter, they are responsible for disclosing all financial and personal relationships that might bias their work. To prevent ambiguity, authors must state explicitly whether potential conflicts do or do not exist. Authors should do so in the manuscript on a conflict-of-interest notification page, providing additional detail, if necessary, in a cover letter that accompanies the manuscript. Increasingly, individual studies receive funding from commercial firms, private foundations, and government. The conditions of this funding have the potential to bias and otherwise discredit the research.

Scientists have an ethical obligation to submit creditable research results for publication. Moreover, as the persons directly responsible for their work, researchers should not enter into agreements that interfere with their access to the data and their ability to analyze them independently, and to prepare and publish manuscripts. Authors should describe the role of the study sponsor, if any, in study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing the report; and the decision to submit the report for publication. If the supporting source had no such involvement, the authors should so state. Biases potentially introduced when sponsors are directly involved in research are analogous to methodological biases.

Editors may request that authors of a study funded by an agency with a proprietary or financial interest in the outcome sign a statement, such as "I had full access to all of the data in this study and I take complete responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis." Editors should be encouraged to review copies of the protocol and/or contracts associated with project-specific studies before accepting such studies for publication. Editors may choose not to consider an article if a sponsor has asserted control over the authors' right to publish.

Reviewers must disclose to editors any conflicts of interest that could bias their opinions of the manuscript, and they should reсuse themselves from reviewing specific manuscripts if the potential for bias exists. As in the case of authors, silence on the part of reviewers concerning potential conflicts may mean either that conflicts exist and the reviewer has failed to disclose them or conflicts do not exist. Reviewers must therefore also be asked to state explicitly whether conflicts do or do not exist. Reviewers must not use knowledge of the work, before its publication, to further their own interests.

Editors who make final decisions about manuscripts must have no personal, professional, or financial involvement in any of the issues they might judge. Other members of the editorial staff, if they participate in editorial decisions, must provide editors with a current description of their financial interests (as they might relate to editorial judgments) and reсuse themselves from any decisions in which a conflict of interest exists.

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects

If a research study involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author(s) must clearly identify these in the submitted manuscript. Authors should also inform participating human subjects about the purpose of the study and should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committee(s) has approved them. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.

Retraction Policy

Retraction of an article may be required in case there are such several conditions as severe plagiarism, multiple publications, data fabrication, unreliable or faulty findings, violations of professional ethics, and other harmful practices. A retraction may be published by the Editor in Chief/Editorial Board, the author(s), or by mutual agreement of both parties.