General duties and responsibilities of Editors for Current Chemistry Letters


In Growing Science Journals we adopt the COPE guidelines on publication ethics.

In Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters, editor-in-chief and editorial boards are held responsible for all published materials in their journals. They do their best

• to meet the necessary requirements of readers and authors;
• for continues improvement on the journal’s materials;
• to make sure about the quality of published materials;
• to ensure about freedom of expression;
• to keep the integrity of all academic record;
• to include all business requirements from compromising intellectual standards;
• and to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when they are necessary.


Relations with readers

Readers are always informed about the people who funded research and on the role of any funders in the research.


Relations with authors

In Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters, editors are held responsible to take any necessary actions to make sure the quality of published materials, recognizing that journals and sections within journals will have various objectives and standards.

All Growing Science Editors’ decisions to accept or reject any paper for publication are solely based on the paper’s importance, originality, and clarity, and the research’s relevance to the remit of the journal.

A description of peer review processes are published, and editors also constantly justify any important deviation from the described processes.

All Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters have a declared mechanism for authors to appeal against Editorial decisions and they could ask editors to reconsider their decision by providing necessary facts and reasons.

In all Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters, all editors publish guidance to authors on everything, which is expected. This guidance are also regularly updated.

Editors do not reverse decisions to accept submissions unless serious problems are detected with the submission. In Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters, our new editors do not have the permission to overturn decisions to publish submissions made by the previous editor unless serious problems are determined.

Relations with reviewers

In Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters, editors are responsible to publish guidance to reviewers on everything, which is expected. This guidance are regularly updated and all interested parties are referred or related links.


In Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters, editors have appropriate systems to make sure that peer reviewers’ identities are protected.


The peer-review process

In all Growing Science journals including Current Chemistry Letters, editors have the access to appropriate systems to make sure that material submitted to their journal are kept confidential while they are under review process.

Complaints and Pursuing misconduct

In Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters, Editors follow the procedure set out in the COPE flowchart. All editors respond to complaints quickly and make sure there is a way for dissatisfied complainants to take complaints further by sending an email to editor-in-chief of the journal. This mechanism are made clear in the Journal and include information on how to refer unresolved matters to COPE.

In all Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters:

Editors must follow the COPE guidelines for the following purposes:

General approach to publication ethics for the editorial office

How to recognise potential manipulation of the peer review process

What to consider when asked to peer review a manuscript

Handling of post-publication critiques

Peer review manipulation suspected after publication

Peer review manipulation suspected during the peer review process

Image manipulation in a published article

How to recognise potential authorship problems

Systematic manipulation of the publication process

Fabricated data in a submitted manuscript

Undisclosed conflict of interest in a submitted manuscript

Undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article

Responding to whistleblowers when concerns are raised via social media

How to spot authorship problems

Ghost, guest, or gift authorship in a submitted manuscript

Plagiarism in a submitted manuscript

Reviewer suspected to have appropriated an author’s ideas or data

Redundant (duplicate) publication in a submitted manuscript

Suspected ethical problem in a submitted manuscript

Plagiarism in a published article

Redundant (duplicate) publication in a published article

Changes in authorship: Removal of author – before publication

Changes in authorship: Addition of extra author – after publication

Changes in authorship: Removal of author – after publication

Fabricated data in a published article

Changes in authorship: Addition of extra author – before publication

Editors have to make all reasonable efforts to ensure that a proper investigation is conducted; if this does not happen,

Editors have to make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem. This is an onerous but important duty
Encouraging debate

In all Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters, cogent criticisms of published works are welcome for publication unless editors have convincing reasons on why they are not entitled for publication. Authors of criticized material are also given the opportunity to respond.

In all Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters, Studies that challenge previous work published in the journal should be given an especially sympathetic hearing.

In all Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters, Studies reporting negative results should not be excluded.



Encouraging academic integrity

In all Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters, editors should ensure that research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines,

In all Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters, Editors should seek assurances that all research has been approved by an appropriate body (e.g. research ethics committee, institutional review board). However, Editors should recognise that such approval does not guarantee that the research is ethical.


Protecting individual data

In all Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters, Editors should protect the confidentiality of individual information (e.g. that obtained through the doctor–patient relationship). It is therefore almost always essential to prepare written informed consent from patients described in case reports and for photographs of patients. It may be possible to publish without explicit consent if the report is important to public health (or is in some other way important); consent would be unusually burdensome to obtain; and a reasonable individual would be unlikely to object to publication (all three conditions must be met).


Ensuring the integrity of the academic record

In all Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters:

Whenever it is recognised that a significant inaccuracy, misleading statement or distorted report has been published, we take the necesary actions to correct promptly and with due prominence.

If, after an appropriate investigation, an item proves to be fraudulent, it should be retracted. The retraction will be clearly identifiable to readers and indexing systems.

Relations with journal owners and publishers.

The relationship of Editors to publishers and owners is based on the principle of Editorial independence. Notwithstanding the economic and political realities of their journals, Editors should make necessary decisions on which articles to publish based on quality and suitability for readers rather than for immediate financial or political gain.

Commercial considerations

In all Growing Science Journals including Current Chemistry Letters:

Editors have declared policies on advertising in relation to the content of the journal and on processes for publishing supplements.

Misleading advertisements are refused, and Editors are willing to publish criticisms, according to the same criteria used for material in the rest of the journal.

Reprints are published as they appear in the journal unless a correction is to be added.

Guidelines for disclosure of conflicts of interest (authors)

In Current Chemistry Letters, the journal follows the COPE guidelines on how to handle the potential acts of misconduct.

Authors have to refrain from misrepresenting research outcomes which may destroy the trust in the journal, the proficiency of scientific origination, and eventually the entire scientific attempts. Having an integrity of the research and its presentation is facilitated by following rules of outstanding scientific practice, including the following:

The article does not have to be submitted to more than one journal for concurrent consideration and must be original which was not previously published in part or complete elsewhere, unless the new work is considered as an expansion of the previous work. The research paper study cannot be split up into different parts to enlarge the number of submissions and be submitted to different journals or to one journal over time. Simultaneous publication is often justifiable, which may end up translations of a paper which is considered for a various group of readers. Results must be presented clearly and with no fabrication, falsification or unsuitable data manipulation. Authors ought to keep up discipline-specific disciplines for choosing and processing the necessary data. An appropriate acknowledgement has to be given to other works, summarized, quotation marks (to show words taken from other sources) are implemented for verbatim copying of material, and permissions secured for material that is copyrighted.

Important note: the journal may use software to screen for plagiarism.

Authors have to make sure they have the necessary permissions to use the required software, questionnaires/(web) surveys and scales in the accomplished studies (if appropriate). Research articles and non-research articles (e.g. Opinion, Review, and Commentary articles) ought to cite the relevant literature to support their claims. We discourage any inappropriate self-citation. Authors are advised to ensure the author group, the Corresponding Author, and the order of authors are all appropriate at submission. Adding and/or removing authors during the revision stages is only accepted under special circumstances.

Upon request authors have to be prepared to present the relevant documentations or data to verify the validity of the results given in the paper.

*All of the above are guidelines and authors need to make sure to respect third parties rights such as copyright and/or moral rights.

If there is any misbehavior the Journal and/or Publisher may carry out an investigation following COPE guidelines. If, after investigation, there is valid evidence, the author(s) concerned will be contacted and given an opportunity to address the issue. Depending on the circumstances, this may result in the Journal’s and/or Publisher’s implementation of the following measures, including, but not limited to:

If the manuscript is still under review, it may be rejected and the case is closed. If the article is published online, depending on the nature and severity of the infraction: an erratum/correction may be executed. The reason will be available in the published erratum/correction, editorial expression of concern or retraction note. Please note that retraction indicates that the paper is kepts on the platform, watermarked “retracted” and the description for the retraction is given in a note associated with the article and the institution will also be informed about the issue.

Fundamental errors

Authors deserve an obligation to correct mistakes when they detect a significant error or their article. The author(s) is/are may contact the journal and describe in what sense the error is influencing the article. The article may be subject to correction or retraction.

Updated April, 2022