Editors'Responsibilities
The editorial board is responsible for making impartial publication decisions based on reviewers' recommendations while ensuring compliance with legal and ethical standards, including libel, copyright, and plagiarism regulations. Editorial decisions are made without bias regarding authors' nationality, ethnicity, political beliefs, race, or religion. Editors are also committed to maintaining confidentiality throughout the review process, sharing manuscript-related information only with relevant parties. Unpublished material from submissions must not be used without the author's explicit written consent, and funding sources must be transparently disclosed.
The peer review process is conducted fairly, objectively, and in a timely manner, with clear policies in place to manage submissions from editorial board members. Reviewers are expected to identify ethical concerns, including research misconduct, redundant publication, and plagiarism. Their feedback should be shared with authors in full, except in cases of inappropriate content. The journal ensures the quality of published material by verifying ethical approvals, addressing intellectual property concerns, and correcting any errors or inaccuracies promptly. Editors and reviewers are held to high standards of professionalism, with consistent efforts to uphold academic integrity.

Reviewers' Responsibilities
Reviewers play a crucial role in supporting editorial decisions by providing objective, well-reasoned assessments that help authors improve their manuscripts. Reviews should focus on the content rather than personal criticism, ensuring constructive feedback. Reviewers should only accept assignments within their expertise and must inform the editor if they are unable to complete the review in a timely manner. To maintain ethical standards, they should also decline to review manuscripts where conflicts of interest may arise due to personal, professional, or institutional associations.
All manuscripts under review must be treated as confidential documents, and any information obtained through the peer review process should not be used for personal gain. Reviewers are responsible for identifying relevant published work that has not been cited and ensuring appropriate attribution of sources. Additionally, they should inform the editor of any significant overlap between the manuscript and other published works they are aware of, helping to uphold the integrity of scholarly research.

Authors' Responsibilities
Authors are expected to present accurate, objective, and transparent accounts of their research, ensuring that data is represented truthfully. Raw data should be retained for at least two years after publication and made publicly accessible if required. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements are considered unethical. Manuscripts must be original, properly cite all sources, and avoid any form of plagiarism. Concurrent submission of the same manuscript to multiple journals is strictly prohibited.
All authors must disclose any financial or personal conflicts of interest that could influence their research, along with sources of funding. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all legitimate co-authors are properly credited, have reviewed the final manuscript, and have consented to its submission. Contributors who do not meet authorship criteria should be appropriately acknowledged. If an author discovers a significant error in their published work, they must promptly notify the journal editor to retract or correct the paper.

Plagiarism Policies
The journal maintains a strict policy against plagiarism, prohibiting the use of others’ ideas, words, or work without proper acknowledgment. Submissions that contain plagiarism in whole or in part, as well as those involving duplicate or redundant publication, or self-plagiarism (in the same or different language), will be rejected. Works archived in preprint form are not considered duplicate publications. The corresponding author is responsible for the manuscript throughout the evaluation and publication process and has the authority to act on behalf of all co-authors. All submitted manuscripts are checked for plagiarism using Turnitin, and those with an unacceptable similarity index resulting from plagiarism are rejected immediately.

Withdrawal of Manuscripts
Authors are not permitted to withdraw submitted manuscripts, as doing so would waste the valuable time and resources of editors and reviewers who have invested significant effort in processing the submissions. However, if authors do not receive any progress updates after six months, they may suggest withdrawal of their manuscript, and notifications to the Editorial Board must be made.

Corrections, Expressions of Concern, and Retraction
Corrections to a published article may be made with the editor's authorization. Editors will determine the extent of the necessary corrections. Minor corrections will be made directly to the original article, while major corrections will be addressed by publishing a corrected version alongside the unchanged original. Both versions will be linked to one another, and a statement explaining the reason for the major change will also be published. If necessary, article retractions will be conducted in accordance with COPE retraction guidelines.

Conflict of Interest
All authors of articles are required to disclose any conflicts of interest related to the publication of the manuscript, including any associations with institutions or products mentioned in the manuscript that may influence the study's outcomes. Additionally, authors must disclose conflicts of interest involving competing products. If an author is uncertain about whether a competing interest should be disclosed, they should consult their institution or the journal editor for guidance.
If no competing interests exist, the following statement will be included in the article: "The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

Research Ethics and Consent for Studies in Humans, Animals, and Plants
All original research papers involving humans, animals, plants, biological material, protected or non-public datasets, collections, or sites must include a written statement in an Ethics Approval section that encompasses the following:

• The name of the ethics committee(s) or institutional review board(s) involved.
• The number or ID of the ethics approval(s).
• A statement confirming that human participants provided informed consent prior to participation in the research.

For research involving animals, adherence to ethical standards concerning animal welfare is mandatory. All original research papers involving animals must:

• Comply with international, national, and institutional guidelines for the humane treatment of animals.
• Obtain approval from the ethics review committee at the institution or facility where the research was conducted, including details on the approval process, the names of the ethics committee(s) or institutional review board(s) involved, and the number or ID of the ethics approval(s) in the Ethics Approval section.
• Justify the use of animals and specify the species selected.
• Provide information regarding housing, feeding, and environmental enrichment, as well as measures taken to minimize suffering.
• Detail the methods of anesthesia and euthanasia used.

Research that fails to meet the aforementioned ethical approval and animal welfare requirements will be rejected.

Allegations of Misconduct
REID (Research and Evaluation in Education) follows COPE concerns about allegations of misconduct.

Plagiarism
Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:

• Directly copying text from other sources without attribution
• Copying ideas, images, or data from other sources without attribution
• Reusing text from your own previous publications without attribution or agreement of the editor
• Exception: Reusing text from the Methods section in the author’s previous publications, with attribution to the source, is acceptable.
• Using an idea from another source with slightly modified language without attribution.
• If plagiarism is detected during the peer review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication, we may issue a correction or retract the paper as appropriate.

Data Fabrication

• This relates to the creation of research results.
• Alleged falsified data in a submitted paper.
• Alleged falsified data in a published paper.

Data Falsification
Manipulating research data with the intention of giving a false impression. This includes manipulating images (e.g., micrographs, gels, radiological images), removing outliers or “inconvenient” results, changing, adding or omitting data points, etc.

Duplicate Submissions
Authors must declare upon submission that the manuscript is not being considered elsewhere. The detection of a duplicate submission or publication is generally regarded as a deliberate act, including articles previously published in another language. For permissible secondary submissions or publications (e.g., a translated article), authors must obtain permission from the publisher and copyright holder of the original article and inform the editor of the receiving journal about the original article's history. Additionally, it must be clearly indicated to readers that the manuscript is a translated version, with a citation to the original article included.

Authorship Issues
Clear policies (that allow for transparency around who contributed to the work and in what capacity) should be in place for requirements for authorship and contributorship, as well as processes for managing potential disputes.

Citation Manipulation
Citation Manipulation includes excessive citations in the submitted manuscript that do not contribute to the scholarly content of the article and have been included solely for the purpose of increasing citations to a given author’s work or to articles published in a particular journal. This leads to misrepresenting the importance of the specific work and journal in which it appears and is thus a form of scientific misconduct.

Suspected Manipulation of Peer Review/Bias of Peer Reviews
REID (Research and Evaluation in Education) selects the reviewers on any manuscript with due care so as to avoid any conflict of interest between the reviewers and the authors. Our policy is compliant with COPE Guidelines on peer review

Errata and Corrigenda
Changes/additions to accepted articles
All content in published articles undergoes an editorial review process, overseen by the editor. If authors wish to make additions to their article after it has been accepted, they must submit a request to the editor, and the new content will be reviewed.
If the new material is intended to be added to the accepted article, it must be submitted as a new manuscript for peer review, with a reference to the original work.
If the new material is meant to replace content in the accepted article, the editor may consider publishing an erratum or a corrigendum.

Erratum
An erratum is issued to correct errors introduced by the publisher. Any changes made by the publisher are flagged for the author during the proofing stage, and it is the author’s responsibility to identify and request corrections before the article’s final publication.

Corrigendum
A corrigendum refers to a correction that the author wishes to make at any time after the article has been accepted. Authors should contact the journal editor, who will assess the significance of the change and determine the appropriate course of action.