Deanship of Scientific Research
Scientific Publishing Policy and Intellectual Property
First: The researcher, when preparing and seeking publication, is committed to the following:
1- Being bound by local and international laws and regulations applicable in the Kingdom for copyright and authoring, especially with regard to obtaining prior written consent from the author or
publisher when wanting to translate a manuscript or part of it or republish an image or form.
2- Reference the source or sources that he/ she quotes from or from which he/ she based their manuscript on and mention them in a list of references.
3- Take into account the rights of researchers and research groups when preparing scientific papers for publication or using their results in preparing a scientific book.
4- Not sending the scientific paper to be published to more than one place at a time.
5- Not publishing the scientific paper in another scientific journal or a conference record or a
symposium without making substantive additions or amendments to it, except in the case that the publishers allow this without neglecting to refer to the original source in which the paper was previously published.
6- State his/her full gratitude to the Deanship of Scientific Research, using the special format, for research or manuscripts that are funded wholly or partly by the university.
Second: The researcher, when protecting the rights of others, is committed to the following:
1- Not overlooking the names of the researchers when wanting to publish the research or scientific papers or participate in a conference or a symposium.
2- Indicate the efforts of others whose works have benefited him/ her, even if they are not published 3- Take into account the order of the names of researchers in joint work based on their actual
contributions to that work, and in the event of equal participation, their names are listed in alphabetical order, if there is no agreement among them to rule otherwise.
4- Not including the names of those who did not actually participate in carrying out the scientific research as authors.
5- Agree with the owner of the research project or his/ her financial supporter regarding publishing and authoring rights and documenting this before the implementation of the research and abiding by these rights after publishing.
6- Respect the right of society to publish scientific achievements and not attempt to distort scientific facts or delay their publication.
Third: Practices that violate scientific honesty
• The researcher is forbidden to fabricate scientific results regardless of their quantity, which are not based in scientific research or its experimental results and to claim that they are the result of experimental scientific research. In this regard, the researcher must present the scientific results without distortion and not excluding the deviant and abnormal ones from the real outcomes
resulting from the scientific experiments carried out within the limits of the statistical rules with the aim of showing them in full consistency required by some scientific journals.
• The researcher is to refrain from direct scientific misinformation, including deliberate focus on highlighting content which may be accidental or affirming its meaning, and treating it as equivalent to the rest of the results obtained in the general context of scientific research and neglecting other numbers, which may cause the research idea to become weak.
• The researcher is prohibited from attributing to himself/herself a part of or an entire work belonging to others, or neglect to refer to the source of any idea or any part of the research or manuscript whatever that may be.
• The researcher should avoid exaggeration by mentioning scientific references and attribution without referring to them, and the researcher should not list excessive references to suggest the wide scope of his scientific background in the field of his research in order to establish an impression on the readers or referees of his/ her knowledge of everything in his/ her field.
• The researcher must seek accuracy and credibility in writing his scientific biography and not exaggerate when highlighting experience and personal achievements in order to obtain any interest or mislead others.
Vice Dean of the Development
of Scientific Research Dean of Scientific Research
