Progress in Applied Science and Technology adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE: https://publicationethics.org/).

Duties and responsibilities of editors

1. The editors should consider the quality of the submitted manuscript based on the novelty, clarification, and the detail in agreement with the aim and scope for publication in Progress in Applied Science and Technology.
2. The editors and editorial team should not disclose any information involving in the submitted manuscript under consideration to anyone other than the corresponding author, potential reviewers, and other editorial advisors.
3. The editors should take responsibility for acceptance or rejection of the manuscript with independent from commercial consideration and appropriate peer-reviewed process.
4. The editors should prevent plagiarism from the submitted manuscript related to the published work.
5. The editors can withdraw or retracted the published articles from the journal when the articles have plagiarism of the other works, data falsification, and manuscripts with duplicate submissions.

Duties and responsibilities of authors

1. The authors should ensure that the submitted manuscript is the original work without plagiarism and has not been published elsewhere.
2. The authors should provide clear results, sufficient information, honestly, without data fabrication or falsification, and appropriate citation manipulation.
3. The authors should provide proper acknowledgment of research funding and relevant conflicts of interest.
4. The authors should have the contribution of the submitted manuscript and published work.
5. The authors who use AI tools in manuscript preparation, the production of images or graphical elements, or data analysis must declare in a disclosure statement, mentioning the specific AI tool(s) used and how they were applied since the initial manuscript submission (see Author Guidelines). The authors must carefully review, edit, and verify the AI generated contents to ensure that the manuscript reflects their authentic and original contributions as well as bearing full responsibility for all of the contents.

Duties and responsibilities of reviewers

1. The reviewers should not disclose all information on the manuscript during the review process.
2. The reviewers should instantly refuse to review the manuscript that is out of their fields of expertise.
3. The reviewers should provide prompt time to review the manuscript under the journal condition.
4. The reviewers should advise the editors in case of the incorrectly cited work, data fabrication and/or falsification, or duplicated work in other journals.

Studies in human

Authors of human studies must adhere to ethical standards.

Research involving human subjects must adhere to the World Medical Association's Declaration of Helsinki: Ethical guidelines for medical research.

Manuscripts must adhere to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) rules for the conduct, reporting, editing, and publication of academic work in medical journals, ensuring representation across gender, age, and ethnicity. The WHO rules delineate appropriate terms for sex and gender.

All manuscripts must state that all procedures were conducted in compliance with legal and institutional regulations and sanctioned by the relevant institutional committee. The statement must encompass the date of ethical approval and the reference number.

Authors must clarify that the privacy rights of human subjects were upheld, and that informed consent was obtained for the experiments.

This journal will not accept manuscripts including data from unethically procured organs or tissues, including those from executed prisoners or prisoners of conscience, in accordance with Global Rights Compliance on Mitigating Human Rights Risks in Transplantation Medicine. All research utilizing human organs or tissues must demonstrate compliance with the WHO Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue, and Organ Transplantation. A statement of informed consent from a patient or their designated representative, along with ethical approval from an appropriate institution, as mandated by the journal's regulations, may constitute adequate evidence for clinical trials; however, the journal may solicit further documentation. Clinical research organs and tissues must be identifiable. Your manuscript on organ transplantation must additionally specify: Informed consent was acquired from donors or their relatives. Executed or conscientious objectors did not donate organs or tissues.

Studies in animals

Researchers doing animal research must adhere to ethical standards.

The ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) guidelines are applicable to all animal research studies.

The study must adhere to the Guidance on the operation of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, relevant guidelines, EU Directive 2010/63 for the protection of scientific animals, or the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (PDF).

Your article must state that you adhered to the aforementioned guidelines and specify the sex of the animals and its influence on the study's outcomes.

Sensory studies

A moral declaration is essential for sensory-consumer research with trained or untrained panelists. Authors must declare an ethics committee exemption if national law does not need ethical approval. The statement must explain the lack of a human ethics committee or formal documentation procedure and confirm that appropriate measures were used to protect participants' rights and privacy during the research. These protocols include the absence of coercion to participate, comprehensive disclosure of study requirements and risks, obtaining written or verbal consent, preventing uninformed data release, and allowing participants the option to withdraw from the study. Parents or guardians must consent to research on minors, disabled people, socially or economically disadvantaged people, or institutionalized people.