EDITORIAL POLICY

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Submitted manuscripts are reviewed for originality. All manuscripts are subject to a similarity check using the Turnitin service, and articles exceeding the limit of greater than or equal to 20% similarity are returned for clarification and/or correction.

• To ensure rapid dissemination and easy accessibility of the articles published in Horizon, the journal allows free unlimited access to the full text to all. Users require no permission for the scholarly or commercial use of the published article as long as Horizon is cited as the original source.
• In consideration for publication of the work, the author(s) grants Horizon a non-exclusive publishing right to reproduce, publish and communicate the work, or any part of the work, to the public in any and all media for educational and all other purposes.
• In addition to the Author’s moral rights in respect of the work, the author(s) retains the right according to CC BY 4.0.

• All manuscripts submitted to Horizon initially undergo internal / desk review. A manuscript not found suitable for publication as regards to the topic or poor writing, breach of ethical principles, or conflict of interest issues, is likely to be rejected on the initial internal editorial review stage.
• After the internal / desk review, the manuscript is sent for external peer reviews. This is a double-blind process. Research articles are reviewed by two reviewers.
• Horizon follows the instructions for Peer Reviewers as recommended by ICMJE. 

Authors whose articles have been rejected have the right to direct an appeal at info.horizonpublication@gmail.com. The appeal is reviewed and a decision reached accordingly. 

• According to Horizon's copyright policy, the copyright belongs to the Journal upon submission of the manuscript. Moreover, it is considered unethical to submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time.
• If the authors want to withdraw the manuscript during its processing, an email has to be sent notifying as to their intention, to the effect that the manuscript withdrawal form will be emailed for the signatures of all the authors. This needs to be completed, scanned and sent back. A final letter from the editorial office for withdrawal of the manuscript will then be dispatched. 
• Please note that without a formal letter of withdrawal, a manuscript is not considered withdrawn and use of such a manuscript elsewhere will be construed as an ethical misconduct.

Horizon follows the Retraction Guidelines by COPE.

https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction-guidelines-cope.pdf 

Retraction of a published article is considered on the following grounds:

• If gross errors in the results or experimental miscalculations are detected after publication.
• Redundant or Duplicate publication
• Unethical Research results
• Major Conflict of Interest

There is NO TIME BAR for retraction.

The journal follows the CC BY 4.0 license (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License). For details, please read the full license legal code. For open access publishing, Horizon uses a non-exclusive licensing agreement with respect to open access publishing. The authors retain the copyright along with the primary scholarly usage rights & grants the journal publication and distribution rights.