Editorial Policies

 Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle of making research freely available to the public, students, researchers, and to support a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Publication Ethics:

The journal has an Editorial and Advisory Board for Special Interest Insect Group which publishes the journal. All the members of the Advisory Board and Editorial Board are recognized experts in the field. The full names, affiliations as well as contact of all the members are provided on the journal’s website and published journal. 

Publication fees/charges:

Journal is freely downloadable. Editorial processing fee per article/author:  

Students Rs. 300 (India), Others Rs. 400 (India), Overseas 10 USD. Further the journal will be mailed to any individual on request, free of cost. Subscription is free.

Authors’ responsibilities:

Authorship of the paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. Transparency and originality by authors are strongly encouraged. 

• Originality and plagiarism: The authors should ensure that they have written      entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others,  appropriately citation is needed.
• Data access and retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data. However confidentiality of the contents will be maintained.
• Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication: An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Insect Environment does not view the following uses of a work as prior publication: publication in the form of an abstract; publication as an academic thesis; publication as an electronic preprint, reports in popular form for use by farmers or general public. Note: some society-owned titles and journals that operate double-blind review have different policies on prior publication. Information on prior publication is included within Insect Environment guide for authors.
• Acknowledgement of sources: Proper acknowledgment of the work of others if used must always be given.
• Disclosure and conflicts of interest: All submissions must include disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest.
• Fundamental errors in published works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author's obligation to      promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
• Reporting standards:  Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its      significance.
• Chemicals:  Mention of the pesticides should be taken care. The use of banned      pesticides is not allowed. Commercial or brand names should be avoided.
• Use of images:   Require author permission and acknowledgement.

Blind Review Process

All of the journal’s content is subjected to blind peer-review from experts in the relevant fields including the advisory board members. Upon ascertaining the suitability of the submitted manuscript as per the scope and subject matter of the journal by the Editor-in-Chief in consultation with the Editorial Board, the articles are sent to two expert reviewers. Reviewers will evaluate the suitability and thoroughness of the articles. They will critically read and evaluate a manuscript in their specialty field, and then provide constructive comments to improve the quality of the article. The decision of acceptance or rejection of the manuscript is taken after taking into account the reviewer's comments and the Editorial Board’s consultations. Reviewers are asked to provide a statement of no conflict of interest. 

Publication ethics

The editors shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred. In no case shall a journal or its editors encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place. In the event that a journal’s editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the editor shall deal with allegations appropriately. The journal’s editorial board takes appropriate means and measures to retract or correct articles when needed. The submissions are checked for plagiarism. The publishers and editors should be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.Note: If the output of the article is based on falsified data or pirated data/ misconduct in research, then the editorial board has the right to reject the same.

Copyright and Access

The authors hold the copyright of the articles published and are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Copyright © 2020 Insect Environment - All Rights Reserved. The journal issue and individual articles are available to readers immediately upon publication free of charge to read, download and share. The sole objective of the journal is to advance new knowledge in entomology.

Archiving

The journal is hosted at https://insectenvironment.com  and all previous volumes are available under Archives. The articles and volumes are open access and freely available. Hard copies of all previous volumes for last two and a half decades are available at Library, ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bangalor, India. 

Principles of transparency and best practiceOwnership and management

The journal is published by the Special Interest Insect Group. Journal is managed by the independent editorial board delegated by the Advisory Board. The journal is a not-for-profit enterprise.

Web site

The journal’s website is: https://insectenvironment.com

Publishing schedule: Journal is published quarterly, in March, June, September and December and is in publication since 1996.

Name of journal

The Insect Environment is the only journal published by Special Interest Insect Group, since 1996. Concept Conceived By: Editor-In-Chief and Team, IE