Ethical Guidelines
To promote the academic ethics of sci-tech journals and research integrity, protect the rights and interests of readers and authors, the editorial office of Petroleum Drilling Techniques formulates the following ethical guidelines according to publishing ethics proposed by COPE with consideration of the actual situation of the journal:
Ethical Approval
The research findings on petroleum engineering should be published in Petroleum Drilling Techniques(referred to as PDT), then examined and got approved by professionals from the side of moral aspect. If the research methods and findings would be not approved by editor, the article could be prohibited to be published.
Conflict of Interest and Source of Funding
This journal requires that all sources of institutional, private and corporate financial support for the work within the manuscript must be fully acknowledged, and any potential conflicts of interest noted. Grant or contribution numbers may be acknowledged, and principal grant holders should be listed. Please include this information under Acknowledgements.
Appeal of Decision
The decision on a paper is final and cannot be appealed.
Permissions
If all or parts of previously published illustrations are used, permission must be obtained from the Journal of PDT.
Copyright assignment
Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that the work and its essential substance have not been published before and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. The submission of the manuscript by the authors means that the authors automatically agree to assign exclusive copyright to the Journal of PDT if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication.
Online Availability of Electronic Editions
Electronic editions of the papers published on the Journal of PDT since 2006 can be downloaded free of charge from the website（http://www.syzt.com.cn/）, while the papers published before 2006 need to be downloaded from CNKI（https://cnki.net/）, Wanfang Data（https://www.wanfangdata.com.cn/）and other databases with payment.
For Authors
Each author is responsible for fully understanding all requirements listed below, must submit all manuscripts on our website(http://www.syzt.com.cn), and the manuscript should be prepared according to the Author Instruction.
1. Authorship
The Journal of PDT defines an “author” as a person whose participation in the work is sufficient for taking public responsibility for all portions of the content. Specifically, all authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following:
1) conception and design of the study, acquisition of the data, or analysis and interpretation of the data;
2) drafting of the article or critical revision of the article for important intellectual content;
3) final approval of the version to be submitted.
When authorship is attributed to a group, all authors must meet the listed criteria and must be responsible for the quality, accuracy, and ethics of the work. All authors must participate in determining the order of authorship.Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that the manuscript have been read and approved by all authors and that all authors agree to the submission of the manuscript to this journal.
2. Ethics
For submission to the Journal of PDT, core content should be original or authorized by the published references or others’ research achievements, please indicate its provenance according to the relevant rules from Law of Copyright. Otherwise, the resulting legal liability will be the author’s sole responsibility.
3. Duplicate and "Salami" Publication
Submissions will be considered for publication in the Journal of PDT only if they are submitted solely to the Journal of PDT and do not overlap substantially with a published article. Any manuscript that has similar or near similar hypothesis, sample characteristics, methodology, results, and conclusions to a published article is a duplicate article and is prohibited. The Journal of PDT also prohibits so-called “salami” publishing that involves slicing of data collected from a single research process or during a single study period, into different pieces, that form the basis of individual manuscripts published in different journals or the same journal. If any material related to the submission (other than a brief abstract or meeting abstract) has been published in any medium, is in preparation, or has been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere, authors must provide copies of all such manuscripts and other materials, as well as outline the relationship of all materials to one another to avoid any possibility of duplicate publication.
4. Disclosure of Conflict of Interest
Each author must disclose all potential conflicts of interest by completing the Journal of PDT Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form. A conflict of interest (COI) is a financial relationship or other set of circumstances that may affect or may reasonably be thought by others to affect an author’s judgment, conduct, or manuscript. A COI exists based on the author’s circumstances; the author’s behavior, subjective beliefs, and outcomes are irrelevant. In other words, the author must disclose a COI even when the circumstances have not actually influenced the author’s actions or manuscript, and even when the author believes that the circumstances cannot or will not affect the actions or manuscript. When a manuscript is accepted for publication, the Journal of PDT will determine the part(s) of an author’s disclosure that will be published with the manuscript.
5. Copyright
Acceptance of a copyright agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of an article. Upon acceptance of their article, the authors will be asked to sign the Journal Publishing Agreement (for more information on publishing and copyrights, see the Transfer of Copyright form). Papers are accepted on the understanding that no substantial part has been or will be published elsewhere, in whole or part, and that after papers have been accepted, they remain the copyright of the Journal of PDT. If papers closely related to the submitted manuscript have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere, the author must state this in the cover letter.
For Reviewers
Correctly reviewing a manuscript without delay; respecting the achievements of the author; keeping secret for the reviewed contents; avoiding a manuscript involved in interest relation.
For Editors
Justly processing a manuscript without delay; conforming to publication rules; respecting the achievements of the author; keeping secret for the information of the authors and reviewers; respecting the advice of the reviewer; encouraging academic discussion, handling the discussions and corrections of the published manuscripts in time; adopting the double-blind system without disclosing the information of the author and reviewers; avoiding a manuscript involved in conflicts of interests.
Determination and Handling of Academic Misconduct
1. Determination Process
The Journal of PDT adopts the “Academic Misconduct Literature Check” of China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) to check the manuscripts. At the same time, we actively focus on clues provided by peer review and check all the steps of publishing to identify whether there is plagiarism, forgery, tampering, improper authorship, multi-contribution or other misconducts,etc. The editorial office will, in a prudent attitude, invite experts in relevant research fields or the editorial board to review and confirm the papers with high rechecking rate.
2. Scope
1) All submitted papers, papers ready for acceptance and accepted papers.
2) Published papers reported for suspected academic misconduct.
3. Determination Criteria
“Academic Misconduct Literature Check” of CNKI will be used to check and test the papers. If the rechecking rate is more than 20%, the editorial office will submit the paper together with the comparative paper to reviewers or the editorial board to determine the duplication of the paper.
The criteria for identifying a paper as an academic misconduct are as follows:
1) Copy the results of others without change or basically without change.
2) Change the type of others' achievements and treat the achievements completed by others as those completed by oneself independently; do not change the type of achievements but use the copyright-protected contents and change the specific form of expression, and regards the achievements completed by others as those completed independently by oneself.
3) Cite others' protected viewpoints, schemes, materials, data, etc., without indicating or listing the corresponding references;
4) The main content of the paper is the same as that published by the author oneself or others in print or on online platforms, with only some changes in the form and without substantial research progress;
5) Fabricate or tamper with research results, survey data, experimental data or literature materials in the paper;
6) Submit the same paper to other journals;
7) Disputes over the authorship and author’s unit.
8) Other academic misconduct.
4. Handling
1) The editorial office will take a prudent attitude towards papers that are ultimately deemed to be of academic misconduct, inform the authors in time, and allow the authors to explain and defend the issue before we make the final decision.
2) If the paper has not been accepted, the editorial office will immediately terminate the processing process, reject the paper and give criticism to the author.
3) If the paper has been accepted but not officially published, the editorial office will reject the paper and cancel its qualification. At the same time, the author will be recorded and warned.
4) If the paper has been officially published, the editorial office will publish an announcement on the journal and the website to officially retract the publication, notify the cooperative database to delete the online edition at the same time, and terminate the dissemination of the paper. At the same time, the editorial office will inform the author's unit. The author should return the contribution fee, apologize to the journal, relevant party, unit, and all the readers on the paper for the infringement and the adverse effects and should bear the corresponding responsibilities. If the reputation of the journal is influenced or other losses are caused to the journal, the editorial office have the right to claim compensation.
5) The editorial office will not accept any paper written by the first author or corresponding author within 3 years, who is involved in seriously plagiarism and multi-contributes.
5. Handling of Author’s Opposition
If the author of the paper opposes the determination and handling, he/she can send written application for recheck within 5 working days once receives the notification from the journal (we do not accept an overdue application). The editorial office will invite experts to be responsible for the recheck of the paper and make a final decision. The editorial office will inform the author the final results within 60 working days.
Retraction
1. By Authors
1) After successfully submitting a manuscript online, the author should explain the situation to the editorial office if he/she proposes to withdraw the paper due to his/her own reasons.
2) If the manuscript submitted has passed the review, the author should fill the “Application Form for Author to Withdraw the Manuscript”.
3) If the author has withdrew manuscript for two times, the editorial office has the right to reject his/her contribution within one year with the author being the lead author or corresponding author.
2. By the Editorial Office
1) If the manuscript has not been officially published, once the editorial office finds any academic misconduct, we will contact the author, and submit relevant materials to the editorial board, and make the decision of retraction.
2) If the manuscript has been officially published, the editorial office will publish the “Statement of Retraction” on the website and on the latest issue of the journal and send the statement to relevant databases to withdraw all the data and information of the manuscript.
3) For the first author and corresponding author involved in academic misconduct, the editorial office will reject manuscripts from them within three years.
The above measures come into effect from the date of publication, and the editorial office of Petroleum Drilling Techniques is responsible for explanation.
