PREAMBLE

Construction in the 21st Century International Conferences (CITC) commits itself to promote the highest standard of professional ethical norms and values for all its participants (practitioners, academics and students).
 

AUTHORSHIP

All participating authors of CITC submit a paper on the understanding that the manuscript has been read and approved by all authors and that all authors agree to the submission of the manuscript to this journal. Authors submitting a paper also do so maintaining they are the original creators of the work. 
 

ETHICAL STANDARDS

To submit an article for presentation and publication in Construction in the 21st Century International Conference proceedings, the quality, and integrity of research must be ensured. Each submitted paper to CITC goes through a double-blind peer-review process, providing beneficial feedback for final paper submission. This ensures the quality and integrity of research as well as respects the confidentiality and anonymity of researchers. An International Scientific Committee of renowned experts from around the world review all full papers. Acceptance is based on quality, relevance, and originality. Participants submit papers to CITC conferences voluntarily. Research topics provided for CITC are independent and impartial with no conflict of interest present. 

• Publishers and editors shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred.

• In no case shall a journal or its editors encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.

• In the event that a journal’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct, the publisher or editor shall deal with allegations appropriately.

• The journal should have guidelines for retracting or correcting articles when needed.

• Publishers and editors should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed

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PUBLICATION ETHICS AND PUBLICATION MALPRACTICE STATEMENTS

Publication malpractice is an unfortunate occurrence in the world of scholarly literature. It happens in all subject areas and in all jurisdictions, and few journals or books are immune. The prevention of publication malpractice is the responsibility of every author, editor, reviewer, publisher, and institution.

Scopus requires that every journal we index has clear and publicly available statements of publication ethics and publication malpractice. Scopus will hold each publisher listed in the database accountable for the performance and compliance with these policies. Scopus does not mandate any specific wording of publication ethics and publication malpractice statements, but notes that:

• Major publishers already publish comprehensive statements of compliance on their websites. See Elsevier for an example.

• A number of industry organizations publish comprehensive guidelines and advice that can be readily adopted by any publisher. Such notable organizations include:

  • Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

  • World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

  • International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)

  • Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT)

• Guidelines for what a Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement should adhere to (PEMS)