Agrolife Frontiers is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against publication malpractices. All parties involved in the publishing process—authors, editors, and reviewers—must agree upon and adhere to these ethical guidelines.
Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original works. If authors have used the work and/or words of others, this must be appropriately cited or quoted.
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.
Fair Play: Manuscripts are evaluated solely on their intellectual merit without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality: Editors and editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, and the publisher.
Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
Promptness: Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse themselves from the review process.