Journal of Pollution Mitigation and Sustainable Technology is committed to maintaining a fair, transparent, independent, and academically rigorous editorial process. Editorial decisions are based on scholarly merit, originality, methodological quality, technical validity, ethical compliance, relevance to the journal's Aim and Scopes, and contribution to pollution mitigation, environmental remediation, resource recovery, sustainable technology, and related environmental applications.
Editorial decisions are made independently of commercial, financial, institutional, industrial, governmental, or personal interests. The publisher does not determine whether an individual manuscript is accepted or rejected.
Editors assess manuscripts according to scientific quality, originality, methodological soundness, technical validity, ethical compliance, transparency, relevance, and contribution to pollution mitigation and sustainable environmental technology.
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening before external peer review. The editorial team evaluates whether a manuscript fits the journal's Aim and Scopes and meets minimum scholarly, technical, ethical, and presentation standards.
Initial screening may include assessment of:
Manuscripts that are clearly outside the journal's scope, lack sufficient scientific or technological contribution, or do not meet minimum editorial standards may be declined without external peer review.
The journal applies a double-anonymous peer review process. The identities of authors and reviewers are concealed from each other during the review process.
Manuscripts that pass initial editorial screening are normally evaluated by at least two independent reviewers with expertise in environmental engineering, pollution control, remediation, waste management, sustainable technology, environmental monitoring, or related fields.
Reviewers are expected to provide objective, constructive, confidential, evidence-based, and technically competent assessments.
Reviewer recommendations inform but do not automatically determine the final editorial decision. The responsible editor considers reviewer reports together with the manuscript's scholarly merit, technical validity, methodological quality, ethical compliance, transparency, and relevance to the journal.
Editorial decisions may include:
Submission of a revised manuscript does not guarantee acceptance. Final publication decisions remain the responsibility of the editorial team.
Authors, editors, and reviewers must disclose financial, institutional, professional, consulting, commercial, or personal relationships that could reasonably influence or appear to influence the research, peer review, or editorial process.
Potential conflicts may include relationships with environmental technology companies, waste-management operators, industrial facilities, technology developers, consultants, regulators, or organizations directly affected by the research. Editors should transfer responsibility where a relevant conflict exists.
Journal of Pollution Mitigation and Sustainable Technology supports internationally recognized principles of responsible scholarly publishing and publication-ethics practices informed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, duplicate publication, manipulated peer review, inappropriate authorship, citation manipulation, data misrepresentation, image manipulation, and undisclosed conflicts of interest are not acceptable.
Allegations of research or publication misconduct will be assessed objectively, confidentially, and proportionately based on available evidence.
Submitted manuscripts may be screened using similarity-detection software. Similarity reports are evaluated contextually and are not judged solely on the basis of a numerical percentage.
Unattributed copying, inappropriate paraphrasing, duplicate submission, redundant publication, or substantial reuse of previously published material may result in rejection or appropriate post-publication action.
Artificial intelligence systems, generative AI tools, large language models, or autonomous software agents cannot be listed as authors because they cannot assume responsibility for scholarly content, originality, ethical compliance, or accountability.
Authors remain fully responsible for all AI-assisted content, including writing, coding, environmental prediction, pollution classification, image analysis, remote sensing interpretation, modeling, data processing, and engineering conclusions.
Substantive use of AI in writing, environmental monitoring, predictive modeling, contaminant classification, digital twins, remote sensing, optimization, or literature synthesis should be disclosed where relevant.
Editors and reviewers should not upload confidential manuscripts, unpublished environmental data, proprietary technologies, reviewer reports, or editorial correspondence to publicly accessible AI systems where confidentiality, intellectual property, privacy, or data security cannot be assured.
Research involving environmental sampling, wastewater testing, soil or sediment analysis, air-quality monitoring, field measurements, remote-sensing datasets, biological treatment systems, numerical models, industrial records, or laboratory datasets should clearly report data sources, sampling procedures, methods, conditions, assumptions, uncertainty, and limitations.
Experimental studies should provide sufficient information on sampling design, analytical procedures, instrumentation, calibration, treatment conditions, control groups, replicates, statistical analysis, and applicable standards where relevant.
Studies involving microbial systems, plants, animals, human participants, communities, or environmental interventions should comply with relevant ethical, legal, environmental, and institutional requirements.
Proprietary industrial information, confidential environmental records, or restricted operational data should be handled in accordance with relevant permissions, confidentiality agreements, legal obligations, and institutional requirements.
Authors may submit a reasoned appeal when they believe that a significant factual, methodological, technical, procedural, or ethical issue affected an editorial decision.
Appeals should identify the specific issue being challenged and provide a clear scholarly or technical justification rather than merely expressing disagreement with the editorial outcome.
Complaints concerning editorial conduct, peer review, conflicts of interest, publication ethics, or published content will be considered objectively by an appropriate journal representative.
Journal of Pollution Mitigation and Sustainable Technology is committed to preserving the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record.
Corrections may be issued when errors affect the accuracy, attribution, interpretation, calculations, figures, metadata, or completeness of a published article without invalidating its principal findings.
Retractions may be considered when findings are unreliable because of major error, fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, duplicate publication, unethical research, manipulated data, or other serious integrity concerns.
An Expression of Concern may be issued when substantial concerns exist but sufficient information for a definitive editorial action is not yet available.
