Compliance of JDTREA to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing

(joint statement by COPE, DOAJ, WAME, and OASPA; http://doaj.org/bestpractice)

Enacted Mar 31, 2021

1. Website
2. Name of Journal
3. Peer Review Process
4. Ownership and Management
5. Governing Body
6. Editorial Team and Contact Information
7. Copyright and Licensing
8. Author Fees
9. Process for Identification of and Dealing with Allegations of Research Misconduct
10. Research & Publication Ethics
11. Publishing Schedule
12. Access
13. Archiving
14. Revenue Sources
15. Advertising
16. Direct Marketing

1.Website:

1.1. The URL address of the journal’s official web site is https://www. jdre.org/

1.2. Aims & Scope

The Journal of Daesoon Thought and the Religions of East Asia (JDTREA) is the official English language journal of the Daesoon Academy of Sciences, and thus far, it is the only peer-reviewed, English language journal exclusively dedicated to research on Daesoon Thought and the contemporary relevance of East Asia Religions. Daesoon Thought refers to a grouping of native Korean religious concepts best characterized by the Resolution of Grievances for Mutual Beneficence (Haewon Sangsaeng) and the Grateful Reciprocation of Favors for Mutual Beneficence (Boeun Sangsaeng), and the chief purveyor of Daesoon Thought is Daesoon Jinrihoe, a representative Korean religion the ideological origins of which can be traced back to Kang Jeungsan. Although there is a reasonable level of worldwide familiarity with the major religious traditions of East Asia, Daesoon Thought remains under-researched outside of Korea. As a remedy to this, the Daesoon Academy of Science (DAOS), aims to publish JDTREA twice a year. The editorial board of JDTREA consists of active scholars from over a dozen countries including Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Australia, France, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, the UK, and the USA. JDTREA is published to promote global studies on Daesoon Thought and East Asia religion by encouraging wide-ranging research on these topics. The scope of JDTREA includes the following:

• Interpretation and analysis of Daesoon Jinrihoe's religious phenomena in all fields of the humanities and social sciences
• Comparative research on the above in relation to another religion, philosophy, ideology, etc.
• Critical reviews of academic trends, mainly in the arts and humanities, that relate to Daesoon Thought and/or East Asian religions
• New interpretations of and approaches to Daesoon Thought

The types of publications featured in JDTREA will include original articles, research notes, and book reviews. Other types of contributions are negotiable but subject to the approval of the editorial board. All unsolicited articles will be subject to peer review, and commissioned articles are reviewed by the Editorial Board.

2.Name of the Journal

The official title of the journal is Journal of Daesoon Thought and the Religions of East Asia and the abbreviated title is JDTREA.

3.Peer Review Process

It is described at the Instructions to authors. We adopts double-blind peer review.

4. Ownershipand Management

4.1 Information about the ownership: This journal is owned by its publisher, Daesoon Academy of Sciences (www.daos.or.kr/en/).

4.2 Management team of a journal

• The Journal’s Management Team (2020-2022)

• Journal Manager: LEE Gyungwon, Daejin University, Korea

• Manager of the Review Process: LEE Gyungwon, Daejin University, Korea

• Ethics Editor: LEE Gyungwon, Daejin University, Korea

• Managing Editor: Jason GREENBERGER, Daejin University, Korea

• Copy Editor: CHOI wonhyuk, Daejin University, Korea

• Website and JATS XML File Producers: KIM Yeonwook, Geomok, Korea

• Administrative Manager:

        NA Kwonsoo, Daejin University, Korea

        PYEON Gyeongil, Daejin University, Korea

        EUM Hyejin , Daejin University, Korea

        LEE Suhyun, Cheongchi University, Taiwan

5. GoverningBody

The governing body is the journal's editorial board.

Editor-in-chief is renewed every 3 year, renewable.

Review Editor, Associate Editor, and Editorial boards are renewed every 3 year, renewable.

6. Editorial Team and Contact Information

6.1. The editorial team is available from Editorial Board page.

6.2. Contact information:

Jason Greenberger

Managing Editor

Daejin University Daejin Education Building 403, 1007, Hoguk-ro, Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 11159, Rep. of Korea

Tel: +82-31-539-2523 Fax: +82-31-531-2541

E-mail: idaos@daejin.ac.kr

7. Copyright and Licensing

7.1 Copyright policy: All published papers become the permanent property of the Daesoon Academy of Sciences. Copyrights of all published materials are owned by the Daesoon Academy of Sciences. Permission must be obtained from the Daesoon Academy of Sciences for any commercial use of materials. Every author should sign the copyright transfer agreement forms.

7.2 Licensing information: This is an open-access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited for non-commercial purpose (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

7.3 Deposit policy: According to the deposit policy (self-archiving policy) of Sherpa/Romeo(http://www.sherpa.ac. uk/), authors cannot archive pre-print (i.e. pre-refereeing), but they can archive post-print (i.e. final draft post-refereeing). Authors can archive publisher's version/PDF.

8. Author fees

Neither page charge, article processing fee nor submission fee will be applied. This is a platinum open access journal.

9.Process for the Identification of and Dealing with Allegations of Research Misconduct

When the journal faces suspected cases of research and publication misconduct such as redundant (duplicate) publication, plagiarism, fraudulent, or fabricated data, changes in authorship, an undisclosed conflict of interest, ethical problems with a submitted manuscript, a reviewer who has appropriated an author’s idea or data, complaints against editors, and so on, the resolution process will follow the flowchart provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts). The discussion and decision on the suspected cases are carried out by the Editorial Board.

10.Publication Ethics

10.1. Journal policies on authorship and contributorship: This is described in the section titled ‘Publication ethics.’

10.2. How the journal will handle complaints and appeals;

10.2.1. The policy of the journal is primarily aimed at protecting the authors, reviewers, editors, and the publisher of the journal. If not described below, the process of handling complaints and appeals follows the guidelines of the Committee of Publication Ethics available from: https://publicationethics. org/appeals

10.2.2. Who Could Complain or Make an Appeal? Submitters, authors, reviewers, and readers may register complaints and appeals in a variety of cases as follows: falsification, fabrication, plagiarism, duplicate publication, authorship dispute, conflict of interest, ethical treatment of animals, informed consent, bias or unfair/inappropriate competitive acts, copyright, stolen data, defamation, and legal problem. If any individuals or institutions want to inform JDTREA of such cases, they can send a letter to editor detailing their complaints or appeals. Concrete data with answers to all factual questions (who, when, where, what, how, & why) should be provided.

10.2.3. Who is responsible to resolve and handle complaints and appeals? The Editor, Editorial Board, and Editorial Office are responsible.

10.2.4 .What may be the consequence or remedy? It depends on the type or degree of misconduct. The consequences and resolutions will follow the guidelines of the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE).

10.3. Journal policies on conflicts of interest/competing interests: This is described in the section titled, ‘Instructions to Authors.’

10.4. Journal policies on data sharing and reproducibility; Open data policy:

For clarifications on result accuracy and reproducibility of the results, raw data or analysis data will be deposited to a public repository after acceptance of the manuscript. Therefore, submission of the raw data or analysis data is mandatory. If the data is already a public one, its URL site or sources should be disclosed. If data cannot be publicized, it can be negotiated with the editor. If there are any inquiries on depositing data or receiving a data sharing waiver, authors should contact the editorial office.

If the data sharing plan changes after registration, this should be reflected in the statement submitted and published with the manuscript, and updated in the registry record. All of the authors of research articles that deal with interventional clinical trials must submit a data sharing plan. Based on the degree of the sharing plan, authors should deposit their data after deidentification and report the DOI of the data and the registered site.

10.5. Journal's policy on ethical oversight:

When the journal faces suspected cases of research and publication misconduct such as a redundant (duplicate) publication, plagiarism, fabricated data, changes in authorship, undisclosed conflicts of interest, an ethical problem discovered with the submitted manuscript, a reviewer who has appropriated an author’s idea or data, complaints against editors, and other issues, the resolving process will follow the flowchart provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (http://publica- tionethics.org/resources/flowcharts). The Editorial Board will discuss the suspected cases and reach a decision. We will not hesitate to publish errata, corrigenda, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.

10.6. The journal's policy on intellectual property:

All published papers become the permanent property of the Daesoon Academy of Sciences. Copyrights of all published materials are owned by the Daesoon Academy of Sciences.

10.7. The journal's options for post-publication discussions and corrections: Post-publication discussion is available by sending a letter to editor. If any readers have a concern on any articles published, they can submit s letter to the editor regarding the articles. If any errors or mistakes are found in the article, it can be corrected through errata, corrigenda, or retraction.

11. PublishingSchedule

The journal is set to be published biannually March 30, September 30. Supplemental issues may also be published.

12. Access

This is an open access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creative- commons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

13.Archiving

The journal is accessible without barrier from National Library of Korea (http://nl.go.kr) in the event that the journal is no longer published.

14.Revenue Sources

Revenue sources of the journal come from the support of the publisher, Daesoon Academy of Sciences.

15. Advertising

JDTREA does not currently accept any commercial product advertisements and policy changes would be needed should this ever be changed.

16. DirectMarketing

Promotion of the journal is done through the journal’s website and the distribution of an introductory pamphlet. Invitations to submit manuscripts are usually given to presenters at conferences, seminars, or workshops if their topic falls within the journal's aims and scope.