Publication Ethics Statement

Transducer and Microsystems Technologies upholds academic publishing ethics and resists all forms of academic misconduct. All submission, peer review, editing, and publication processes comply with the Core Practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the relevant requirements of China’s Academic Publishing Specification—Definition of Academic Misconduct in Journals (CY/T 174—2019). In conjunction with the journal’s other relevant rules and requirements, this statement sets out the journal’s publication ethics policies.

Editors, authors, and reviewers of this journal are expected to fulfil the following responsibilities.

1. Authors’ Responsibilities

(1)Manuscripts submitted must be original works and comply with the relevant requirements in the journal’s “Instructions for Authors” Plagiarism, data fabrication, and other academic misconduct are strictly prohibited. Authors must ensure that the manuscript is not under simultaneous consideration by another journal, has not been previously published, and is not a salami-sliced publication.

(2)The content of the manuscript must be presented in a scientific, accurate, and objective manner, and authors shall bear sole responsibility for the content.

(3)All listed authors must have made substantive contributions to the research. In principle, no authors may be added or removed and no author order may be changed after submission; gift authorship and guest authorship are prohibited.

(4)The work of others must be properly acknowledged and cited; permission must be obtained from the copyright holder when using others’ research results, so as to avoid infringing upon others’ intellectual property rights.

(5)Funding program names and grant numbers must be truthfully declared; funding information must not be fabricated.

(6)Reviewers’ comments must be respected, and the manuscript must be revised point by point accordingly. If authors have objections, they may lodge an appeal with the editorial office.

(7)If authors discover errors in a published paper, they shall voluntarily submit a written request and evidence to the editorial office and cooperate in completing a correction or retraction.

(8)After acceptance, authors shall, in accordance with the agreement, transfer to the editorial office such relevant copyrights as the rights of reproduction, distribution, and information network dissemination; the editorial office may authorize recognised scholarly databases to use the article. Authors may reasonably cite the content of the article in their subsequent research.

(9)The journal conducts academic misconduct screening (similarity checks) on all submissions. If academic misconduct is found during peer review, editing, or after publication, the manuscript will be rejected. All legal and research consequences arising from academic misconduct shall be borne entirely by the responsible persons.

2. Reviewers’ Responsibilities

(1)Reviewers shall complete manuscript review within the prescribed time and promptly return review comments to the editorial office. If they cannot complete the review on time, they shall inform the editorial office promptly.

(2)Reviewers shall review manuscripts in a fair, objective, scientific, accurate, and timely manner. Using their professional expertise, they shall conduct the review solely on the basis of the academic value of the manuscript, such as its originality, scientific rigor, and practical significance, and shall not be influenced by factors such as the authors’ institutional affiliation, academic rank or position, gender, or seniority.

(3)If a reviewer finds that a manuscript is suspected of academic misconduct, including concurrent submission to multiple journals, they shall inform the editorial office immediately.

(4)Reviewers shall point out relevant published works that have not yet been cited.

(5)Reviewers shall have no conflict of interest with the research, the authors, and/or the funders of the research. If a competitive, collaborative, or other related conflict of interest exists with the authors, their institutions, or other related parties, reviewers shall voluntarily decline to review the manuscript.

3. Editors’ Responsibilities

(1)Editors shall make every effort to handle submitted manuscripts fairly and promptly and to ensure that manuscripts are published to a high standard and on schedule.

(2)In accordance with the Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China and COPE guidelines, editors have the right to make textual revisions and deletions to submitted manuscripts. Any revision involving the original meaning shall be submitted to the authors for confirmation.

(3)Manuscripts suspected of academic misconduct shall be investigated promptly, with appropriate communication with the relevant parties. If conclusive evidence proves that a published article involves academic misconduct, effective measures must be taken to promptly retract or correct the article.

(4)Strict confidentiality shall be maintained regarding all manuscript content, review comments, and the review process. Manuscripts shall not be disclosed externally, their views or data shall not be used for editors’ own research, and manuscripts shall not be retained without authorization.

(5)The opinions of authors and reviewers shall be respected. If an author disagrees with the review comments, the author shall be allowed to lodge an appeal.

(6)Editors must ensure that every manuscript accepted by the journal has undergone a review of its intellectual content, regardless of the authors’ gender, race, religion, nationality, or other such factors.