The Publication Ethics and Scientific Misconduct Statement of the Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research
 
The Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research (JAEBR)’s publication ethics and scientific misconduct statement is based on the Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (Committee on Publication Ethics, 2011).
JAEBR is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal. The publication ethics and scientific misconduct statement highlights our ethical standards, which are practiced in the act of publishing processes. By joining JAEBR publication processes, all stakeholders, including editors, advisory board members, authors and peer-reviewers accept this statement.
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Editors’ Responsibilities
The Editor-in-Chief and the Editors:

• Are responsible for deciding which of the submitted papers will be rejected or advanced in the peer review process and which of the articles will be accepted for publication after undergoing the review process.
• Evaluate the submitted manuscripts on the basis of their intellectual merit without regard to authors’ race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.
• Apply consistent standards in the peer-review processes and ensure its fairness and lack of bias.
• Maintain confidentiality about a manuscript under consideration.
• Ensure that publications were not previously published and do not include scientific misconduct.
• As JAEBR’s main decision makers hold the right to retract any inaccurate, false, misleading, obscene, scandalous, or unlawful publications. The Editor-in-Chief and the Editors are responsible for maintaining the journal quality and integrity.
• Are responsible for publishing clarifications (errata), corrections, retractions, or apologies when they are needed.

Reviewers’ Responsibilities
Reviewers:

• Assist editors in making editorial decisions.
• Call to the Editor-in-Chief/Editor’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
• Notify the Editors if they feel unqualified to review the assigned paper or are unable to provide a prompt review.
• Should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
• Shall not know the author’s identity, as any identifying information will be stripped from the document before reviewing.
• Should objectively do their reviews. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate.
• Should express their views clearly with supporting arguments. They should strive to provide constructive review.
• Reviewers’ comments to the editors will be confidential and before passing on to the author will be made anonymous.
• Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to, or discussed with, others except as authorized by the Editor-in-Chief and the Editors.
• Remain strictly confidential, with their identities known only the Editor-in-Chief and the Editors.

Authors’ Responsibilities
Authors:

• By submitting their paper to JAEBR, confirm that they have not submitted the same manuscript to more than one journal. By submitting their paper more than one outlet, accept that there will sanctions to publish in JAEBR.
• Submit only original works, citing and quoting the works of others.
• Should ensure that they have written entirely original works.
• Ensure submissions do not include plagiarism or and self-plagiarism (also known as duplicate publication).
• Ensure that their papers do not contain any scientific misconduct or questionable research practices.
• Promptly notify the journal editors and cooperate with the editors to retract or correct any significant error or inaccuracy in their work.
• By submitting their papers to and publishing them in JAEBR, accept that the JAEBR holds the right to retract or correct the papers in case any scientific misconduct.
• Submitted manuscripts that are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal, will incur citation manipulation sanctions.
• Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. At the JAEBR, maximum number of authors are limited to five including principal author.
• The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper. The corresponding author may suggest adding new author in case they contribute to the revision of a paper. However, an addition of a co-author to a submitted/reviewed paper can only be decided by the Editor-in-Chief and the Editors. In case of any unethical authorship practices, the Editor-in-Chief and the Editors hold the right to reject or retract a paper.
• The corresponding author signs the copyright, certifying that the article is an original work, that it has not been published previously, and that is not under consideration for publication elsewhere in any form.
• May be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such, if practicable, and should in any event, be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
• Inform the editors in writing whenever the submitted research is funded. Authors write the funding sources and earlier conference presentations of the submitted paper in an acknowledgement.
• Manuscripts that are found to have been published elsewhere, or to be under review elsewhere, will incur duplicate submission/publication sanctions. If authors have used their own previously published work, or work that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted manuscript, they are required to cite the previous work and indicate how their submitted manuscript offers novel contributions beyond those of the previous work.