The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and subscribes to its principles on how to deal with acts of misconduct thereby committing to investigate allegations of misconduct in order to ensure the integrity of research.

The journal uses plagiarism detection software to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

Publication Ethics of Nano Research Energy

Nano Research Energy (NRE) is published by Tsinghua University Press (TUP), released exclusively on SciOpen. The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and subscribes to its principles on how to deal with acts of misconduct thereby committing to investigate allegations of misconduct in order to ensure the integrity of research.

The journal uses plagiarism detection software to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed (see Redundant publications and plagiarism below).

Content published in this journal is peer reviewed (see Peer review and fair editing below).

Ethical guidelines for journal publication

Each peer-reviewed article published in NRE is an approval of the progress of scientific research in the fields of various aspects of energy-related research which centralizes in nanomaterials, nano science and nanotechnology including but not limited to energy consumption, storage, conservation, conversion and clean energy etc. It directly reflects the quality of the authors’ work and the institutions that support them. Peer-review is designed to support and embody scientific methods. Therefore, it is very important that all parties involved in the act of the publication, including the author, journal editors, peer reviewers, publishers, and social organization, should common to perform the Publication Ethics as the moral behavior standards.

NRE recognizes the Publication Ethics as our moral behavior, and takes our duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously.

1. Guideline of the paper

1.1 The paper published in NRE should be the original scientific paper and the content should be relevant with the NRE’s scope.

1.2 A paper should contain sufficient detail, such as the research work and the experimental method, data must be guaranteed to be true. If any reference and open literature resources are quoted in the paper, they should be listed in detail for peer evaluation.

1.3 It should be avoided to split one research result into fragmented papers to submit.

1.4 Contention issue and the words in the paper should be clear and concise. Photographs and graphs in the paper should be of high quality. If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, these materials had to be appropriately cited or quoted.

1.5 Please give clear indication of research funding sources in the paper, if the research work is supported by the funds.

1.6 After the publication of the paper, the copyright belongs to the authors.

2. Redundant publications and plagiarism

Authors are to submit original research for publication; this requires that there will be no previous or concurrent publication of the same article and its findings. As such, an author may not submit his or her research to multiple journals at the same time, and instead should wait for the final decision on the paper before submitting the research to another journal. Where an author is found to have made simultaneous submissions, the paper will be rejected. The author’s institution will be notified and the author will be barred from submitting papers to this journal.

Authors may use works of their own that have been published previously, provided the previous article is properly cited, and differs in some way from the current study.

Authors should gain the appropriate permission prior to publication where the research paper incorporates various figures, tables and images.

All papers submitted to NRE will be screened for plagiarism by Crosscheck software iThenticate. 

3. Peer review and fair editing

This journal utilizes a single-blind peer review process in which the reviewers’ name and information are withheld from the author. All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor (including Editor-in-Chief (EiC), handling editors and assistant editors, similarly hereinafter) for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of four independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The EiC is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The EiC’s decision is final. Editors are not involved in decisions about papers which they have written themselves or have been written by family members or colleagues or which relate to products or services in which the editor has a conflict of interest. Any such submission is subject to all the journal’s usual procedures, with peer review handled independently of the relevant editors. (For detailed information, please refer to Instructions for Authors_Nano Research Energy)

4. Paper correction and retraction policy

4.1 Authors have an obligation to correct mistakes once they discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their published article or the errors found by the readers. The author(s) is/are requested to contact the Journal and explain in what sense the error is impacting the article. A decision on how to correct the literature will depend on the nature of the error. This may be a correction or retraction. The retraction note should provide transparency on which parts of the article are impacted by the error.

4.2 Upon request authors should be prepared to send relevant documentation or data in order to verify the validity of the results presented. This could be in the form of raw data, samples, records, etc. Sensitive information in the form of confidential or proprietary data is excluded.

If there is suspicion of misbehavior or alleged fraud the Journal and/or Publisher will carry out an investigation following COPE guidelines. If, after investigation, there are valid concerns, the author(s) concerned will be contacted under their given e-mail address and given an opportunity to address the issue. Depending on the situation, this may result in the Journal’s and/or Publisher’s implementation of the following measures, including, but not limited to:

• If the manuscript is still under consideration, it may be rejected and returned to the author.
• If the article has already been published online, depending on the nature and severity of the infraction:

- a correction may be placed with the article,

- an expression of concern may be placed with the article,

- or in severe cases retraction of the article may occur.

The reason will be given in the published correction, expression of concern or retraction note. Please note that retraction means that the article is maintained on the platform, watermarked “retracted” and the explanation for the retraction is provided in a note linked to the watermarked article.

• The author’s institution may be informed.
• A notice of suspected transgression of ethical standards in the peer review system may be included as part of the author’s and article’s bibliographic record. 

5. Duties of authors

5.1 Authors should cherish the opportunity of publication on NRE and maintain the reputation of NRE.

5.2 Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and it is unacceptable. When submitting the manuscript, all authors should certify the manuscript is the original one and hasn’t published on or submitted to other journals.

5.3 Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant intellectual contribution to the theoretical development, system or experimental design, prototype development, execution, and/or the analysis and interpretation of data associated with the work contained in the article, and contributed to drafting the article or reviewing and/or revising it for intellectual content. The others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and have agreed to its submission for publication.

5.4 Please indicate one author as the corresponding author in the case of articles with multiple authors. The corresponding author has responsibility for communication with the editorial office, overseeing the publication process and ensuring the integrity of the final document.

5.5 Once the list and order of authors has been established, it should not be altered without permission of all living authors of that article. Due to a result of special circumstances, if it is necessary to change, the corresponding author should put forward a written application including the consent of all authors before the EiC makes final decision for the paper. It can be modified after EiC approval. Please note that changes to authorship cannot be made after acceptance of a manuscript.

5.6 All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed. Examples of potential conflicts of interest which should be disclosed include employme