主管：中华人民共和国应急管理部
主办：应急管理部天津消防研究所
ISSN 1009-0029 CN 12-1311/TU
主办：应急管理部天津消防研究所
ISSN 1009-0029 CN 12-1311/TU
Publication Ethics
I. Responsibilities of Authors
1. Authors must ensure that the manuscript is an original work, free from academic misconduct such as duplicate publication, plagiarism, data falsification, or misappropriation. The manuscript must not contain confidential information.
2. Authors shall not submit the same manuscript to multiple journals simultaneously, nor publish the same manuscript in multiple journals.
3. Authorship should be explained according to the journal's requirements. All listed authors must meet the journal's authorship criteria, meaning they must have made substantial contributions to the research or the manuscript in the following areas: conception and design of the study, acquisition of research data, analysis and interpretation of data; drafting the manuscript or critically revising it for important intellectual content. Authorship should be based on the order of contribution, as agreed upon by all authors. The authorship must be confirmed without dispute at the time of submission, and authors cannot be added or removed arbitrarily. Any changes to the authorship list require a signed consent form from all authors.
4. All authors must disclose all potential conflicts of interest. A potential conflict of interest exists when an author's (or their institution's) financial/personal/affiliation relationships could influence their decisions, work or manuscript. When specific products are mentioned in the manuscript, authors should also disclose any conflicts of interest related to competing products.
II. Responsibilities of Reviewers
1. Ensure scientifically accurate assessment of manuscripts and provide objective and fair evaluations. Use professional expertise to review the manuscript's innovation, scientific validity and practicality; provide fair assessments of the research methods, experimental design, accuracy of results and conclusions, and potential breaches of confidentiality to assist editors in making publication decisions; offer detailed revision suggestions to help authors improve the manuscript's quality.
2. Respect the authors' research findings and avoid reviewing manuscripts with which they have conflicts of interest. Evaluate manuscripts solely on academic merit, without personal judgment or attacks. Acceptance or rejection of manuscripts should not be influenced by the author's race, gender, religion, beliefs, status, qualifications, or authority. Reviewers should clearly articulate their views with sufficient evidence and facts.
3. Submit review comments on time and return them to the editorial office within the specified timeframe. If unable to meet the deadline, notify the editorial office promptly.
4. Strictly maintain the confidentiality of the manuscript under review. Do not share or discuss it with others, and do not use or publish the data, ideas, or conclusions of the reviewed manuscript.
5. All review comments and information must be kept confidential and not used for personal purposes.
6. Reviewers should recuse themselves from reviewing any manuscript with which they have a conflict of interest.
III. Responsibilities of Editors
1. Editors must strictly adhere to relevant national laws and regulations, uphold academic publishing ethics and standards, and maintain research integrity. Handle all submitted manuscripts promptly and fairly, ensuring timely publication of high-quality content.
2. Respect authors' research findings and reviewers' opinions. Maintain the authenticity of review records and maintain confidentiality regarding all aspects of the review and revision process. Editors and editorial staff shall not disclose any information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the corresponding authors, reviewers, and editorial board members as necessary.
3. Editors must protect the information contained in authors' submissions and the identity of reviewers and other relevant personnel during the blind review process.
4. Select manuscripts fairly. Acceptance or rejection of articles should be based solely on the manuscript's originality, importance, clarity, and alignment with the journal's aims and scope.
5. Encourage academic debate and have the obligation to respond to authors' differing opinions on reviewer comments.
6. Have the obligation to investigate and communicate regarding allegations of academic misconduct. If an ethical complaint arises regarding a submitted or published manuscript, editors must take effective responsive measures. If necessary, corrections, clarifications, retractions, or apologies should be published promptly.
7. Editors should recuse themselves from handling any manuscript with which they have a conflict of interest.
IV. Identification and Handling of Academic Misconduct
To strengthen ethical standards in scientific journal publishing and maintain research integrity, the editorial office conducts academic misconduct detection checks on manuscripts at multiple stages of the publication process. A repetition rate exceeding 20% may be considered indicative of potential academic misconduct, and the editorial office will handle it accordingly based on the circumstances.
1. Scope of Manuscript Detection
o All submitted manuscripts, accepted manuscripts, and manuscripts scheduled for publication.
o Manuscripts concerning which questions of academic misconduct arise during the peer review process.
o Manuscripts reported or suspected of academic misconduct.
2. Criteria for Identifying
Academic Misconduct
Academic misconduct is identified according to the following criteria:
o Plagiarism: Directly using another person's ideas, viewpoints, data, images, research methods, or textual expressions without citation or attribution, presenting them as one's own; excessive citation of others' published content.
o Fabrication: Creating or inventing data or facts.
o Falsification: Deliberately altering data or facts to compromise their authenticity.
o Inappropriate Authorship: Authorship that does not correspond to the authors' actual contributions to the paper.
o Multiple Submissions: Submitting the same manuscript, or multiple manuscripts with no substantial differences in main conclusions, to several journals, or resubmitting to other journals within an agreed-upon period.
o Duplicate Publication: Substantially republishing one's own previously published content within a new manuscript.
o Salami Slicing: Dividing research results based essentially on the same theme, data or materials, which could have been reported in a single paper, into multiple papers for publication.
3. Handling of Manuscripts Identified with Academic Misconduct
o If the manuscript has not yet been accepted, the processing will be terminated immediately, and the manuscript will be rejected.
o If the manuscript has been accepted but not yet officially published, it will be rejected, and the authors will receive a warning.
o If the manuscript has already been officially published, relevant indexing databases will be notified, dissemination of the paper will be terminated, and the authors' affiliated institutions will be informed of the incident.
o For severe plagiarism or multiple submissions/publications, manuscripts submitted by the first author and corresponding author of such papers will never be accepted for publication by this journal.
4. Handling of Author
Disputes
If authors dispute the identification or handling results, they may submit a
request for review within the specified timeframe (late requests will not be
accepted). The journal will conduct a re-evaluation and issue a final decision.
V. Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Research Activities
To regulate the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and prevent risks to research integrity arising from misuse or abuse, and with reference to the "Integrity Reminder on the Standardized Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Research Activities" issued by the Research Ethics Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on September 10, 2024, authors and reviewers should adhere to the following guidelines during the research process:
1. Literature Review: AI should only be used as an auxiliary tool. Authors must manually verify the authenticity of information and not directly apply unverified content.
2. Material Writing: The use of AI must be actively and truthfully declared. Authors are fully responsible for all content of the article.
3. Experimental Data: It is strictly forbidden to use AI-generated content to pass off as original experimental data. Data fabrication and falsification are prohibited.
4. Graphics and Media: AI-processed or generated charts, audio, or video must be clearly attributed to their source.
5. Manuscript Writing: Core viewpoints, innovative content, and logical reasoning must adhere to principles of originality. Authors should not rely on AI to complete the entire manuscript.
6. Peer Review: Do not use AI to write review comments. It is strictly forbidden to upload information from manuscripts under review to external AI platforms.
7. Disclosure and Archiving: Complete labeling and retention of AI usage information are required. Relevant records must be properly kept and verifiable.
8. Attribution and Responsibility: AI is not eligible for authorship. Strict adherence to intellectual property rights and research ethics boundaries is mandatory.
If a submitted manuscript is found to violate these AI usage guidelines, the manuscript will be rejected, and the authors involved will be placed on the journal's list of researchers who have committed misconduct, making them ineligible to submit again for six months.
VI. Data Policy
1. Copyright and Archiving
Authors are solely responsible for the content of their submissions and must ensure the independence of the manuscript's copyright, with no plagiarism or disputes over authorship order.
Copyright Handling: Submitting authors must sign the "Copyright Transfer Agreement." All authors voluntarily transfer the rights of compilation (in part or whole), translation, reproduction rights in print and electronic versions, information network dissemination rights, and distribution rights for the manuscript to the Editorial Office of Fire Science and Technology for all territories worldwide. The authors' copyright remuneration is included in the honorarium paid by the journal to the authors as a one-time payment. A copy of the published issue will be provided to the authors.
Archiving Policy: All journal articles published since the journal's founding in 1982 have been digitally archived and are available for full-text download through databases such as CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) and Wanfang Data. To ensure data security, electronic copies, hard copies, supplementary materials, and other information for all articles are also backed up at the editorial office.
2. Data Sharing Policy
To enhance the credibility and reproducibility of research, the journal implements a policy of depositing and sharing associated research data. Authors are encouraged to submit data supporting the paper's conclusions and relevant data from the research process. Classified or sensitive data may be shared in accordance with regulations after completing desensitization and reporting. Data should preferably be submitted in common storage formats. Authors may choose an appropriate licensing agreement; the journal recommends the CC-BY 4.0 license. Data can be made available using three methods: immediate open access, setting a protection period, or access upon request. It is recommended that data be deposited in Science Data Bank (ScienceDB, https://www.scidb.cn).