Ethics & Malpractice

Astra Academic Press is committed to maintaining high standards of integrity, transparency, and scholarly responsibility across all editorial and publishing activities.

Editorial Responsibility

Editors evaluate submissions on scholarly merit, originality, relevance, and ethical compliance. Editorial decisions are made independently and without discrimination based on nationality, institutional affiliation, gender, political views, or other personal attributes.

Author Responsibility

Authors must submit original work that has not been published elsewhere and is not under simultaneous consideration by another publisher.
All listed authors must have made substantial scholarly contributions and approved the submitted version.
Authors must disclose conflicts of interest, funding sources, and material ethical approvals where applicable.

Reviewer Responsibility

Peer reviewers are expected to provide objective, constructive, and timely assessments of manuscripts.
Reviewers must keep manuscript content confidential and avoid using unpublished material for personal advantage.
Reviewers should declare any conflict of interest and decline review when impartiality cannot be maintained.

Misconduct, Corrections, and Retractions

Allegations of plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, duplicate publication, inappropriate authorship, citation manipulation, or peer review misconduct are investigated seriously. Where necessary, Astra Academic Press may issue corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions in accordance with editorial evidence and publishing best practice.