Principles of Transparency

Peer-review process
All submitted articles are evaluated at the submission to meet the structural and subject principles of Health Education and Health Promotion. The matched articles will go under a double-blinded peer-review process by at least 3 reviewers (experts in the field who are not part of the journal’s editorial staff) who are selected by the Editorial Board members according to their field specialties. The Editorial Board members have the final responsibility to select the articles.
 
Governing body
Health Education and Health Promotion is under the scientific control of the Editorial Board whose members are recognized experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. Some executive roles of the Editorial Board members are delegated to the Editor-in-Chief who is well-known in the journal’s scope.
 
Editorial team
Health Education and Health Promotion is under the scientific supervision of the Editorial Team whose members are all experts with a high number of publications in their field.
 
Author fees/Access
There are No Fees or Charges at all for submission, and normal reviewing in Health Education and Health Promotion. There are some charges for publishing (after acceptance). 
Health Education and Health Promotion follows the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing.
 
Copyright
The content of Health Education and Health Promotion is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License. To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, we are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants you such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.

Health Education and Health Promotion allows the authors to hold the copyright but the publishing rights are transferred to the publisher and the material is freely presented to the readers and can be used according to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License. The publishing right is assigned to the publisher by submitting the manuscript and it is sent back to the authors if the manuscript is rejected. 

 
Process for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct
Publisher and editors of Health Education and Health Promotion are reasonable to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. In doing so, Health Education and Health Promotion follows COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.
 
Ownership and management
Health Education and Health Promotion is owned by Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, and is managed and published by Afarand Scholarly Publishing Institute.
 
Conflicts of interests
All Health Education and Health Promotion Editorial Board members and the Editor-in-Chief submitted articles are gone under the same reviewing process as the other authors are gone. In the cases that a reviewer suspects an undisclosed conflict of interest in a submitted manuscript or a reader suspects an undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article (all authors are filling the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest at the submission time) Health Education and Health Promotion will follow COPE’s guidelines.
 
Revenue sources/Advertising/Direct marketing
Health Education and Health Promotion is financially supported completely by Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, and has no other sources for earning funds. Health Education and Health Promotion accepts No advertisements on the site or even as a report article.
 
Publishing schedule/Archiving
Health Education and Health Promotion is published 4 issues per year. All the content from the beginning to the end will be available forever on the Health Education and Health Promotion exclusive website. Also, Health Education and Health Promotion is included at ISC (a national library) and Scopus and has the plan to enter the Web of Science database.