Journal of Solar Energy and Sustainable Development
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Journal Policies:

1. Type of Journal:

The journal is an open-access and printed. Its content is available to academics and researchers to support exchange of knowledge on the national and global levels. It uses Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License that preserves the copyrights of published materials to the authors and protects it from unauthorized commercial use.

2. Frequency of publication:

The journal is published biannually. Each volume contains 2-issues at June and December.

Special issues are issued within regular issues and are going through similar process of reviewing.

3. Publishing Ethics:

Journal of SESD is maintaining and adhering to the standards of publication ethics that support ethical research practices

3.1 Author Responsibilities:

Authors are responsible to submit an original research work and ensure that his work was not published before and is not intended to be published elsewhere. Authors are requested to cite all references in appropriate way according to the journal requirements.

Authors are requested to declare any financial funds or other facilities provided to them for their research work and state any conflict of interest.

3.2. Editors Responsibilities:

Editors ensure fair double-blind peer-review of the submitted articles for publication. They ensure the confidentiality of all information concerning reviewing process of all manuscripts submitted to the journal. They attempt to avoided conflict of interest between authors and reviewers as well as with editorial board.

3.3. Reviewers Responsibilities:

Reviewers are responsible for reviewing manuscript and make their evaluation to the best of their knowledge and give constructive comments and provide editors with an impartial evaluation. They should keep all information associated to the manuscript confidential and return their reviewing report within time frame given to them by the editors. They should adhere to the time frame given by the editor.

4. Charges:

The journal is an open access with no charges for article submission and processing. It is free of charges for authors and readers. Its content is freely available to researchers and academics to support exchange of knowledge.

Paper Submission:

All papers and reports are peer reviewed through an evaluation process. Paper and report templates are available at the journal website.

• The papers and reports should be an original work and not considered for publication elsewhere. Papers published in conferences may be considered for publication in the journal after they go through the evaluation process and if they do not conflict with the copyright of the conference proceedings.
• All papers and reports are subject to evaluation and may not be published unless all the required corrections are met and the author’s guideline for publication is followed.
• The Arabic language is allowed in writing the text, including English abstract and all scientific terms as needed. In English language papers an Arabic abstract should be included.
• The author should submit an electronic copy of the article as a word document and one PDF copy to the journal address including a cover letter to the editors.
• If the paper was published in a conference, the author should give detailed information on the conference (including: name of the conference, date, etc) and any changes were added to the paper as well as permission from the conference scientific committee.
• After acceptance of the paper or report for publication in the journal, it should not be considered for publication in another journal and the author should sign a copyright agreement with the editorial board of the journal.
• The author should provide the editorial board with the consent of the other coauthors and the related institutions involved in the research work.