Publication Ethics
Al-İbdaa Journal of Administration and Economics Sciences (AJAES) and its editorial team are fully dedicated to following the policies of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Editors' Duties and Responsibilities
• The Editorial Board is responsible for publishing approval on manuscripts submitted to AJAES.
• The Editorial Board is responsible for the entire manuscript’s integrity.
• The Editorial Board is responsible for assessing the legitimacy of publishable research.
• The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial members should keep all information relating to submitted manuscripts and peer review confidential until the work is published.
• The Editor-in-Chief and editorial members of the Editorial Board should reveal and avoid any conflicts of interest.
• The Editorial Board should acknowledge if any self-citation exists.
• The Editorial Board should advise peer reviewers to avoid misconduct and ethical issues in submitted manuscripts.
• The Editorial Board should be informed by peer reviewers about plagiarism and duplicate submissions or publications.
• All peer reviewers’ comments should be forwarded to the author by the Editorial Board, except those that include insulting or libelous issues.
• The Editorial Board should consider all precautions to ensure that all manuscripts meet the standards of the published content, considering that some sections have different standards and purposes.
• The Editorial Board and Editor-in-Chief have the final decision on whether submitted manuscripts can be published.
Reviewers' Duties and Responsibilities
• Reviewers are allowed to assist the Editorial Board in making decisions on the submitted manuscripts.
• Reviewers should approach the peer review process constructively, meaning that their comments and suggestions should come from above-board reasoning. Personal criticism is not an acceptable practice and should be avoided.
• Reviewers are encouraged to recommend other peer reviewers if, for some reason, they cannot review the manuscript.
• Reviewers are required to keep all submitted manuscripts anonymous.
• Reviewers are required to be equitable and unbiased without favoring or disfavoring manuscripts.
• Reviewers should inform the Editorial Board if an author does not adhere to the journal's requirements for publication.
• Reviewers must notify the Editorial Board of any unethical behavior related to the submitted manuscript.
• Reviewers must avoid using research ideas or approaches from manuscripts they have reviewed for their personal benefit.
• Reviewers should reveal any potential conflicts of interest that would preclude an unbiased review.
• Reviewers are required to inform the Editorial Board of any significant relationship or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any published work known to the reviewer.
Authors' Duties and Responsibilities
• Submit only entirely original works, and appropriately cite or quote the work and/or words of others. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work should also be cited.
• Manuscripts must be submitted only in English and should be written according to sound grammar and proper terminology.
• Manuscripts must be submitted to understand that they have not been published elsewhere and are not currently under consideration by another journal published by or any other publisher.
• The corresponding author ensures that all contributing co-authors and no uninvolved persons are included in the author list and is responsible for ensuring that all the other coauthors have approved the manuscript article's publication.
• The author's responsibility is to ensure that the manuscripts emanating from a particular institution are submitted with the approval of the necessary institution.
• It is a condition for submitting a manuscript that the authors permit editing of the paper for readability.
• Authors are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of research and/or preparation of the manuscript and briefly describe the role of the founder/sponsor in any part of the work.
• All authors should include a statement disclosing any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that may be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript.
• All authors agreed to allow the corresponding author to correspond with the editorial office to review the edited manuscript and proof.
• All authors must know that the submitted manuscripts under review or published with AJAES are subject to screening using Plagiarism Prevention Software. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics.
• Authors of original research reports should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance.
• Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
• By submitting a manuscript, the author(s) retain the rights to the published material. In case of publication, they permit the use of their work under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which allows others to copy, distribute, and transmit the work as well as to adapt the work and make commercial use of it.
• Authors could be asked to provide the raw data of their study together with the paper for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable. In any event, authors should ensure accessibility of such data to other competent professionals for at least ten years after publication (preferably via an institutional or subject-based data repository or other data center), provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and legal rights concerning proprietary data do not preclude their release.
• When the author(s) discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, the author must promptly notify the journal editor or publisher to retract or correct the manuscript.
• In the case of an authorship dispute during peer review or after acceptance and publication, the Journal will not be in a position to investigate or adjudicate. Authors will be asked to resolve the dispute themselves. If they are unable, the Journal reserves the right to withdraw a manuscript from the editorial process or in the case of a published paper raise the issue with the authors’ institution(s) and abide by its guidelines.
• To sustain the peer review system, authors have an obligation to participate in the peer-review process to evaluate manuscripts from others.
• We reserve the right to reject a paper even after it has been accepted if it becomes apparent that there are serious problems with its scientific content or our publishing policies have been violated.
• Articles can only be withdrawn before their acceptance, except in cases that contain errors or have been accidentally submitted twice.
• Occasionally, articles may represent infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submissions, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or the like.
• Articles that include errors that are duplicates of or very similar to other published article(s), or are determined to violate the journals’ publishing ethics guidelines in the view of the editors, may be withdrawn.
• For studies involving humans, informed consent should be obtained from all research participants for experimentation.
• Ethical approval must be obtained before conducting the research for all studies involving humans and animals. All experiments must be performed in accordance with relevant institutional and national guidelines and regulations.
• All authors must ensure that all authors read the submission final checklist before being submitted to Al-İbdaa Journal of Administration and Economics Sciences.
Publishers’ Duties and Responsibilities
• The journal commits to ensuring that the editorial Board’s decisions are final for submitted manuscripts.
• The journal ensures that the Editorial Board’s decisions are independent from financial interests and are only made based on scientific evaluation.
• The journal ensures to maintain the integrity of the scholarly and scientific record.
• The journal ensures monitoring of the ethics of all the Editorial Board members, Reviewers, Authors, and Readers.
• The journal has zero tolerance for plagiarism and/or data falsification and will investigate all submissions beforehand.
• The journal is willing to correct, issue notes, and retract submissions for the sake of open access transparency within the discipline.
Violation of Publication Ethics
Plagiarism: Plagiarism intentionally takes someone else's ideas or another's original work and passes it off as one's own. If you copy even a sentence from someone else's manuscript, or even a sentence from your own previously published article, and do not properly cite it, AJAES will consider it plagiarism. All manuscripts under review or published are checked by AJAES with plagiarism detection software. Thus, plagiarism is an overt violation of publication ethics. The service of CrossCheck helps editors to determine if one's work is truly original. CrossCheck is operated by Turnitin software, which is the parent company of Turnitin and is known to the academic world.
Data Fabrication and Falsification: This refers to when the author did not carry out the work but made up the data and findings and subsequently submits/publishes such fabricated information. Falsification implies altering or omitting findings and results from what was actually discovered.
Simultaneous Submission: Occurs when a manuscript (or major sections of it) is submitted to a journal while still under review by another.
Duplicate Publication: Occurs when two or more articles with similar content are published without sufficient cross-referencing.
Redundant Publications: Refers to dividing study findings across multiple articles solely to increase academic output.
Improper Author Contribution or Attribution: All authors listed must have contributed substantially to the work and agreed to all claims. Contributions by students, technicians, etc., must be acknowledged.
Citation Manipulation: Includes excessive unrelated citations used only to boost citation counts of authors or journals, considered scientific misconduct.
Sanctions: Any known ethical violation will be dealt with according to COPE guidelines to protect the journal’s academic integrity.
Handling Cases of Misconduct
• The section Editor must inform the Editor and the Editorial Office, providing a draft letter and evidence to the corresponding author for explanation.
• If the explanation is unsatisfactory and unethical conduct is apparent, the Editorial Office forwards the case to the Editorial Board for final decision.
• For less serious infractions, a letter of disapproval may be sent, with a reminder of the journal’s ethical policies.
• If the article was published, the author may be required to publish a formal apology in the journal.
• The corresponding author is notified of actions. All current and future submissions from the responsible author may be rejected.
• The responsible author is banned from the editorial board and review duties. Further actions may be taken as needed.
• In severe cases, the author’s institution may be notified, and submission privileges revoked long-term.
• If fraud results in retraction, a retraction notice will be published and linked to the article online. The article will be marked “retracted” with the retraction date.
