Ethical considerations
Journal of Water Harvesting Research is a single-blind peer reviewed semiannual publication concerned with appropriate aspects of new approaches and aspects of the rainwater harvesting. Water Harvesting Research is a Semiannual open access publication, which publishes of Novel and original research papers, Research notes and Reviews. Article processing charge and any other publication fees in the journal are free for authors, so there is no article processing charges.
Water Harvesting Research is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws.
Water Harvesting Research is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC- By 4.0). Licensees may copy, distribute, display and make derivative works only if they cite the original published articles in this journal.
Terms and conditions for manuscript submission
Researchers who want to publish their scientific articles in this journal must pay attention to the following details in order to speed up the review and publication process; otherwise, the article will not be subjected to review and evaluation, and the paper will only be once returned to the author for structural revisions:
- Article submission is only possible through the journal website, and the publication refuses the acceptance of any articles manually or by e-mail. Website address: https://jwhr.birjand.ac.ir/
- Articles submitted for review and publish in this journal must not have previously been published in other local or foreign journals or submitted simultaneously for review in other domestic or foreign publications.
- The Editorial team is free to reject, accept and edit the article.
- The sender of the article must be the responsible author of the article and all the necessary correspondences and follow-ups regarding the article will be done with the responsible author, obviously any other correspondences other than the responsible author's, will be disregarded.
- The responsible author is responsible for the accuracy of the content.
- The order of the authors' names is based on the order in which the author's information is registered during the article's submission on the journal website. The responsible author must enter the names of all authors correctly and completely on the publication site.
- In order to speed up the process of evaluating articles, it is necessary for the authors to fully comply with the items mentioned in the article writing guide.
- After acceptance, the article will be placed in the print queue (list of articles ready for publication).
- The publication site and email are used to notify the responsible author (the responsible author is required to refer to both for information and follow-up).
- In case of cancellation of the article's review process,The responsible author must submit a request to withdraw the article through the publication site (request to withdraw the article), the cancellation letter must be signed by all authors and then sent as a PDF file.
- Completion and submission of the commitment form, conflict of interest and the authors information is mandatory (refer to the forms menu to receive the forms).
- Submitted articles must be prepared in accordance with the article writing guide, otherwise the article will be returned to the author and will not be included in the evaluation process.
- If possible, the author's email should be corporate email.