Publication Ethics

The Journal of Economics, Education, Business and Managements (JEEBM) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and ethical conduct in scholarly publishing. The journal expects all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher, to uphold responsible research and publication practices and to contribute to the integrity of the scholarly record.

JEEBM adopts publication ethics principles that emphasize fairness in editorial decision-making, confidentiality in peer review, transparency in authorship and competing interests, honesty in reporting research, and appropriate correction of the record when concerns arise. The journal does not tolerate plagiarism, duplicate submission, redundant publication, data fabrication, data falsification, manipulated citation practices, inappropriate authorship attribution, or any other form of publication misconduct.

1. Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

Editors are responsible for evaluating submitted manuscripts on the basis of their academic merit, originality, clarity, methodological rigor, relevance to the journal’s scope, and contribution to scholarship. Editorial decisions must not be influenced by the authors’ race, gender, nationality, religious belief, institutional affiliation, citizenship, or political perspective.

Editors must ensure that the editorial and peer review process is conducted fairly, objectively, and in a timely manner. Editors should select suitably qualified reviewers and should avoid appointing reviewers where there is reason to suspect bias, conflict of interest, or lack of relevant expertise.

Editors must protect the confidentiality of all manuscripts and related correspondence during the submission, review, and editorial decision process. Information contained in an unpublished submission must not be used in an editor’s own research or disclosed to others except where necessary for proper editorial handling or formal ethical investigation.

Editors must declare any competing interests and must not handle manuscripts in which they have a personal, professional, financial, or institutional conflict of interest. Submissions involving editors, editorial board members, or close associates must be managed independently in accordance with the journal’s standard procedures.

Editors are also responsible for safeguarding the integrity of the published record. Where serious concerns are raised regarding originality, authorship, ethics approval, data integrity, image integrity, or any other aspect of publication ethics, the editors may request clarification, supporting documents, or institutional confirmation, and may take appropriate editorial action.

2. Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers

Reviewers assist editors in making editorial decisions and in improving the quality of manuscripts through expert, objective, and constructive evaluation. Reviewers are expected to provide reasoned comments based on scholarly merit and must avoid hostile, defamatory, biased, or unsubstantiated remarks.

Any manuscript received for review must be treated as a confidential document. Reviewers must not share, discuss, distribute, or use the manuscript or the ideas contained in it for personal advantage. Reviewers must not contact authors directly unless expressly authorized by the editor.

Reviewers should decline invitations to review if they feel unqualified to assess the manuscript, if they cannot provide a timely review, or if they have a competing interest that may affect or reasonably be perceived to affect their judgment. Reviewers should disclose any such conflict to the editor as soon as it becomes apparent.

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors, and they should alert the editor to substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under review and any other work of which they have personal knowledge. Reviewers must not recommend citations primarily for the purpose of increasing their own citation counts or the visibility of their work, their associates, or any journal.

3. Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

Authors submitting to JEEBM must ensure that their work is original, accurate, and honestly presented. Manuscripts must not contain plagiarism, fabricated data, falsified findings, misleading manipulation of results, or selective reporting designed to distort interpretation.

Authors must confirm that the submitted manuscript has not been published previously and is not under consideration by another journal or publication venue. Simultaneous submission, duplicate submission, and redundant publication are considered unethical and are grounds for rejection or retraction, as applicable.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that all sources are properly acknowledged and cited. Any use of tables, figures, images, instruments, or extensive text from other sources must be appropriately credited, and any necessary permissions must be obtained before submission.

Authors must cooperate fully with the journal if questions arise during review or after publication. If authors discover a significant error in their submitted, accepted, or published work, they are obliged to notify the journal promptly and cooperate in issuing a correction, clarification, or retraction where necessary.

4. Authorship and Contributorship

Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made a substantial intellectual contribution to the work and who are able to take public responsibility for its content. All authors must have participated sufficiently in the conception, design, execution, analysis, interpretation, drafting, or critical revision of the manuscript and must approve the final version before submission.

All persons who meet the criteria for authorship should be listed as authors, and those who do not meet authorship criteria but contributed in other meaningful ways should be acknowledged appropriately. Guest authorship, gift authorship, honorary authorship, and ghost authorship are unacceptable.

The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the author list is accurate, that all co-authors have approved the submission, and that no person who qualifies for authorship has been omitted. Any request to add, remove, or rearrange authors after submission may be considered only with a clear explanation and the written agreement of all affected parties.

5. Originality, Plagiarism, and Redundant Publication

Submitted manuscripts must be original works of the author(s). Plagiarism in any form, including direct copying without appropriate attribution, close paraphrasing, mosaic plagiarism, and unacknowledged reuse of one’s own previously published work, is not acceptable.

The journal may use similarity checking and editorial assessment to evaluate originality. A manuscript may be rejected if overlap with published or submitted material is considered excessive, misleading, or ethically inappropriate, even where citation is present but the degree of reuse is not justified.

Redundant or duplicate publication, including publication of substantially similar manuscripts in more than one venue without transparent disclosure and valid scholarly justification, is considered unethical. Authors must disclose any related manuscripts, conference versions, working papers, preprints, or prior dissemination that may be relevant to editorial assessment.

6. Research Integrity, Data Accuracy, and Reporting Standards

Authors must present methods, results, and interpretations truthfully, clearly, and with sufficient detail to allow readers and reviewers to evaluate the work. Data must not be fabricated, falsified, selectively omitted, or inappropriately manipulated.

Where relevant, authors should retain underlying data and be prepared to provide clarification, supporting files, instruments, approval documents, or other materials requested by the editors. The journal encourages transparency in data reporting and, where appropriate, the inclusion of a data availability statement.

Figures, tables, and images must accurately reflect the underlying information. Inappropriate manipulation of images, graphs, or visual materials in a way that may mislead readers is unacceptable.

7. Conflicts of Interest and Funding Disclosure

All authors must disclose any financial, professional, institutional, personal, or other relationships that could influence, or could reasonably be perceived to influence, the work reported in the manuscript. Competing interests must be declared at the time of submission and, where relevant, in the published article.

Reviewers and editors must also disclose any competing interests and recuse themselves where such interests could affect impartial judgment.

All sources of funding and support for the research and publication process must be disclosed clearly. Authors should indicate the role of the funder, if any, in study design, data collection, data analysis, interpretation, writing of the manuscript, and the decision to submit the work for publication.

8. Research Involving Human Participants or Sensitive Data

For research involving human participants, personal data, surveys, interviews, classroom studies, organizational respondents, or any other potentially identifiable individuals, authors must ensure that the study was conducted in accordance with applicable ethical standards and institutional requirements.

Where applicable, authors must state that ethical approval was obtained from an appropriate institutional or committee body and that informed consent was obtained from participants. Where formal ethical approval was not required, authors should provide a clear explanation. Authors must protect participant privacy and confidentiality and must avoid including identifying information unless it is ethically justified and explicit permission has been obtained.

9. Confidentiality

Editors, reviewers, editorial staff, and the publisher must treat submitted manuscripts and all associated materials as confidential. Information about a submission may be shared only with individuals directly involved in the editorial and publication process, unless disclosure is required for legal reasons or for the investigation of suspected misconduct.

Unpublished ideas, arguments, data, or interpretations obtained through editorial handling or peer review must not be used for personal advantage or disclosed without authorization.

10. Use of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies

If authors use generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in the writing process, such tools may be used only to support readability and language improvement under full human oversight and control. Authors must carefully review and edit any output generated with such tools and remain fully responsible and accountable for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of the manuscript.

Generative AI and AI-assisted tools must not be listed as authors or co-authors, because authorship carries responsibilities that can only be fulfilled by humans. Where such tools have been used beyond basic spelling, grammar, or reference-checking functions, authors must disclose their use in the manuscript in an appropriate declaration.

The confidentiality of submitted manuscripts must also be respected in the use of AI tools during editorial or peer review activities. Manuscript content under review must not be uploaded to systems that could compromise confidentiality or ownership of the work.

11. Complaints, Appeals, and Allegations of Misconduct

The journal takes all well-founded allegations of misconduct seriously, whether raised before or after publication. Concerns may relate to plagiarism, duplicate publication, authorship disputes, undeclared conflicts of interest, ethical approval, manipulated peer review, data integrity, image integrity, or other breaches of publication ethics.

Where concerns are raised, the editorial team may conduct an initial assessment, request clarification or documents from the authors, consult reviewers or editorial advisers, communicate with institutions where appropriate, and follow a proportionate and fair process before reaching a decision.

Authors may submit a reasoned appeal against an editorial decision where they believe that a significant misunderstanding, procedural issue, or evaluative error has occurred. Appeals will be reviewed by the journal in accordance with its editorial procedures. Submission of an appeal does not guarantee reversal of the original decision.

12. Corrections, Retractions, and Post-Publication Actions

When necessary to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record, the journal may publish a correction, corrigendum, erratum, expression of concern, retraction, or other editorial notice. Such action may be taken when there is convincing evidence of unreliable findings, plagiarism, duplicate publication, major authorship problems, ethical breaches, or other serious problems affecting the trustworthiness of a publication.

A correction may be issued when part of the article is inaccurate but the overall findings remain reliable. A retraction may be issued where the article is seriously flawed, unreliable, or unethical. An expression of concern may be issued while an investigation is ongoing if there is reason to alert readers to potentially serious problems.

13. Publisher’s Responsibilities

The publisher supports the editorial team in maintaining good publishing practice, protecting editorial independence, preserving the scholarly record, and handling ethical concerns appropriately. Commercial considerations must not influence editorial decisions.

The publisher, together with the editorial team, will take reasonable steps to ensure that allegations of misconduct are handled responsibly, confidentially where appropriate, and in a manner that supports the integrity of the journal and the scholarly record.

14. Ethical Oversight and Continuous Improvement

JEEBM is committed to continuous improvement of its ethical and editorial practices. The journal may update this Publication Ethics statement from time to time in response to evolving standards in scholarly publishing, editorial practice, research integrity guidance, and applicable legal or institutional requirements.

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