Best Practices
Innovative Farming is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics, academic integrity and transparency in scholarly publishing. The journal follows established best practices to ensure the quality, originality, credibility and scientific relevance of published articles. Its key practices include:
- Rigorous Peer Review: Manuscripts undergo an appropriate peer-review process to ensure scientific quality, originality and relevance.
- Publication Ethics: The journal upholds ethical publishing principles and does not tolerate plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification or other forms of research misconduct.
- Originality and Plagiarism Screening: Submitted manuscripts are checked for originality to maintain the integrity of scholarly contributions.
- Editorial Transparency: Editorial decisions are guided by academic merit, relevance, scientific quality and fairness.
- Conflict of Interest Disclosure: Authors, reviewers and editors are expected to disclose any potential conflicts of interest.
- Research Integrity: Authors are responsible for the accuracy, authenticity and proper presentation of their research findings.
- Open Access Policy: The journal promotes wider dissemination and accessibility of scientific knowledge through open-access publishing.
- DOI Assignment: Published articles are assigned Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) through Crossref to facilitate permanent identification, citation and discoverability.
- Timely Publication: The journal strives to maintain its quarterly publication schedule and ensure an efficient editorial and publication process.
- Continuous Improvement: The journal encourages constructive feedback and regularly works towards improving its editorial standards and publication quality.
