A Survey on the Ethical Approach of Chief Editors And Members of the Editorial Board of Scientific and Research Journal of Accounting in the Publication of the Article in the Own Magazine

The purpose of this research is to investigate the ethical approach of editors and the editorial staff of the scientific-research journal of accounting approved by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in publishing an article in its own publications. In this research, using a scientometric approach, after quantitative study and categorization of articles published in the period of five years 2012-2016, the archival method was used. Also, the figure of 15% was considered as the benchmark for review, because according to the relevant regulations, not more than 15% of the articles of each issue should be allocated to the publishers. In analyzing the hypotheses of the research, after examining the normality of the data, one-sample T-test, Chi-square and multiple regression tests were used in SPSS software. The findings of the study showed that the number of articles published by editors and editorial staff in the journals is not less than the 15% benchmark. Also, the number of articles published by editors in their own magazines is less than the average. Other findings also showed that there is no statistically significant difference between a number of articles published by the editor and the editorial staff in their own publications and the number of articles by the editors of their own publications. There is also no significant relationship between age, gender and academic rank of editors and their use of articles in their own publications. The findings of the research showed that the editors, the editorial staff and the officials of the relevant departments in the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology should pay more attention to publishing the article in their own publications so that, in addition to the scientific development of the field, they can observe trustworthiness and observance Professionalism was in them.