About Journal

Authorship and contributorship. Contributors are either author contributors or non-author contributors. Non-author contributors are those who helped in carrying out the research, and they can be appreciated in the acknowledgements statement at the end of the paper. The submitting author takes primary responsibility for submitting the article to the journal using our online manuscript submission system and for communicating with the journal during the article submission, peer review, and revision process. The submitting author might assign the corresponding author when providing author details. All contributing authors must know of and concur with the submission of manuscripts. 

Complaints and appeals handling. This procedure applies to complaints that relate to content, procedures, or policies that are the responsibility of ASIAN HERPETOLOGIST or our editorial staff. Complaints should be directly emailed to and will be dealt with confidentially. Appeals (rebuttals) are not accepted by the journal, and the editor’s decision is final, because the journal editors carefully follow reviewers’ comments and authors’ replies before taking a final decision on manuscript acceptance or rejection. 

Policy on conflicts of interest / competing interests. ASIAN HERPETOLOGIST will not reject manuscripts simply because authors have a conflicting / competing interest, but these will be declared in the published paper. 

Policy on data sharing and reproducibility. We require that the data generated by your research that supports your article be made openly and publicly available upon publication of your article.

Policy on ethical oversight. All material published in the ASIAN HERPETOLOGIST journal that reports experiments performed using animals must adhere to high ethical standards concerning animal welfare. Manuscripts will be considered for publication only if the work described follows international, national, and institutional guidelines for the humane treatment of animals and complies with relevant legislation. Also, the authors must follow the guidelines on the proper collecting permits or reputable dealers, and type specimens are deposited in recognized National or International depositories (in case of specimens of taxa described as new species).

Policy on intellectual property. The author must take responsibility for their results, data, and figures in the submitted manuscript have not been published elsewhere, nor are they under consideration (from you or one of your contributing authors) by another publisher. This policy ensures that contributors who have made substantive intellectual contributions to an article are given credit and that contributors understand their role in taking responsibility and being accountable for what is published. Post-publication corrections/retraction: We expect authors to inform the journal’s Editor-in-Chief (using the Contact Us form of the journal website) of any errors of fact they have noticed (or have been informed of) in their article once published. Corrections are made at the journal’s discretion. Retractions are considered by journal editors in cases of evidence of unreliable data or findings, plagiarism, duplicate publication, and unethical research. ASIAN HERPETOLOGIST does not facilitate any author name changes after the publication.