Ethical Code

Ethical Code of the journal  

Enki & Ptah. Journal of Technology and Trade in Ancient Egypt and Western Asia is a double blind peer-reviewed scientific journal that is inspired by the ethical code of publication worked out by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics, Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors). 

Editors responsibilities 

The Editor in Chief and the Editorial Board of Enki & Ptah. Journal of Technology and Trade in Ancient Egypt and Western Asia are in charge of the decision of publishing the articles submitted to the Journal. In their decisions, they have to follow the policy of the Journal. 

The articles accepted will be submitted to the evaluation of two reviewers; however, their acceptance is subordinated to the implementation of possible modifications required and to the definitive opinion of the Editorial Board. 

The Editor in Chief and the Editorial Board are in charge of evaluating the manuscripts on the basis of their scientific content, without discrimination of race, sex, gender identity, creed, ethnic origin, citizenship, or scientific, academic and political position of the Authors. They may also reject a submission if it is considered irrelevant to the topics of the journal or scientifically weak, even before sending it for review (desk rejection).

The Editorial Committee will be able to make use of anti-plagiarism software.

If the Editorial Board notices or receives notifications on mistakes or inaccuracies, conflict of interest or plagiarism in a published article, it will make a prompt communication to the Author and the Publisher and will undertake the necessary actions to clear up the matter; moreover, if necessary, in the event of fraudulent publication or proven plagiarism, the Editorial Board will proceed to mark the texts as retracted or will publish a retraction.

Editors are not allowed to upload received manuscripts into artificial intelligence software in order not to risk compromising privacy and copyright. 

 

 

Authors Responsibilities 

The Authors are obliged to declare the originality of their work in all its parts and that all the works consulted have been properly quoted. If the works of other Authors are used, they must be properly paraphrased or duly quoted. 

The Authors must indicate any financing agency related to their research or the project the article derives from.  

The authorship of the work must be correctly attributed; in particular, the Authors are required to explicitly indicate any co-authors who gave a meaningful contribution to the conceiving, organization, accomplishment and revision of the research the article is based on. 

The manuscripts under evaluation must not be submitted to other journals for publication. 

All the Authors are obliged to declare unequivocally that there is no conflict of interest which could have influenced the results obtained or the interpretations suggested.  

All the Authors must send an English abstract of the papers they submit to the journal. 

The protocols of the original works must be authorized in advance by the ethical committee the Authors refer to; the researches must be carried out according to ethical rules, with express reference to the Helsinki declaration. 

Authors who have used artificial intelligence tools in the editing of a manuscript, in the production of images or graphical elements of the article, or in the collection and analysis of data, are invited to explicitly declare their use, mentioning the AI tool, the field of application, the search queries used and the date of use, in order to allow reproducibility and verification. The author will remain responsible for the accuracy and correctness of any published content and guarantees compliance with the code of ethics and anti-plagiarism rules. Authors who have used AI, or AI-assisted tools, are required to include a paragraph at the end of their manuscript, entitled "Declaration on Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies in the Writing Process", with the following information: "During the preparation of this paper the author(s) used [TOOL/SERVICE NAME] on [DD/MM/YYYYY] using the search terms: [SEARCH TERMS] in order to [REASON]. After using this tool/service, the author(s) have reviewed and edited the content as necessary and take full responsibility for the content of the publication." Editors are not allowed to upload received manuscripts into artificial intelligence software, in order not to risk compromising privacy and copyright

Reviewers responsibilities 

The Reviewers play an important role in supporting the Editorial Board. By means of the peer-review procedure, the Reviewers contribute to maintain the journal’s quality at a high level. They can, moreover, suggest to the Authors some adjustments or expedients aimed to improve their contribution. 

Each work to be read has to be considered confidential; therefore, the works must not be discussed with or passed on to third parties.

Reviewers undertake not to use artificial intelligence tools to evaluate manuscripts in order to guarantee the application of critical thinking and original assessment, as required for this work.

The Reviewers are obliged to report to the Editorial Board of the journal the existence of possible conflicts of interest with the research from which the article arises. 

The editing must be carried out from an objective point of view. The reviewers are obliged to state grounds for their evaluation. 

The Reviewers should report any similarity or overlapping of the work received with other works known to them. 

Research data avalaibility

Authors are encouraged are encouraged to make avalaible any data on which the research is based. Data can be made avalaible either through publication as Supplementary Files published together with the articles, or deposited in a FAIR Data Repository, or be made avalaible upon request. Authors publishing with Milano University Press can deposit their data in the University's Data Research Repository Dataverse. If data are avalaible upon request, interested researchers may contact the corresponding author to obtain access. To ensure compliance with ethical standards, data will only be shared after signing a disclosure agreement, which specifies the conditions of use and prohibits unauthorised dissemination.