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Editorial Policies

Construction Journal of Bhutan strictly complies with ethics and standards of scientific writing. The Journal does not tolerate any form of scientific misconduct such as fabrication (generating false data and manipulation), plagiarism (copying without acknowledgment of sources and authors), salami publication, or self-plagiarism (multiple publications with a major overlap of ideas and data sources), and multiple submission (to several journals at the same time).

In case of suspected misconduct, the Chief Editor will initiate an investigation by engaging the Editorial Team members and the Editorial Board.

The suspected author(s) will be asked to submit details of works, data, writing, and any other communication in facilitating the investigation.

Depending upon the severity of the crime committed, the author(s) may be asked to withdraw the paper submitted and the Construction Journal of Bhutan reserves the right to expose such scientific misconduct including informing the head of the organization in which the author(s) work or pay monetary compensation. The author(s), if proven guilty, will not be allowed to make any manuscript submission to the Construction Journal of Bhutan in the future.
Construction Journal of Bhutan discourages the citation of articles published in predatory journals/publishers, which are deceptive and do not follow the ethics of scientific publication.

Construction Journal of Bhutan also discourages author(s) who published in predatory journals/publishers to avoid submitting manuscripts to journals.