The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal reflects the quality of the author's work with their specific university (s). As a result, a peer-reviewed journal must adhere to an ethical code of conduct that applies to all parties involved in the publication process, including the author(s), journal editors, peer reviewers, and publisher. Advertising, reprints, and other commercial revenue have no bearing on or influence the International Journal of Economics, Management, and Accounting's editorial decisions (IJEMAC). Additionally, the IJEMAC will help editors in engaging with other journals and publishers if they so request.

Editors' Responsibilities

The editors of the IJEMAC are responsible for deciding which manuscripts should be examined and published. Such a determination must always be based on the work's legitimacy and scholarly and reader worth. The editor-in-chief must take libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism extremely seriously. An editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual substance regardless of the author's race, gender, sexual orientation, religious views, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy (s).

Editors and editorial staff are not permitted to disclose any information about a submitted article to anybody except the corresponding author(s), reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and if required, the publisher. Without the author's consent, the editor may not use unpublished materials detailed in a submitted article in his or her study (s). Confidential information or ideas obtained through peer review must be maintained in confidence and not used for personal advantage.

Editors should recuse themselves from reviewing papers in which they have a financial stake. All authors should be obliged to declare any relevant conflicting interests, and editors should publish amendments if competing interests are identified after publication. When an editor gets an ethical complaint about a manuscript or published article, he or she should collaborate with the publisher to choose an appropriate course of action (or society). Even if alleged unethical publishing conduct is discovered years after publication, it must be examined.

Reviewers' Responsibilities

Peer review assists the editor-in-chief in making editing decisions and communicating with the author editorially (s). Referees who believe they are unqualified to analyze the research presented in a submission or recognize that timely review is impossible should inform the editor-in-chief and resign from the review process. Any paper submitted to us for assessment must be treated as a confidential document.

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal insults to the author(s) are not permitted. Referees should communicate their opinions and with evidence to support them. Any assertion that citations should accompany an observation, derivation, or previously published argument. Any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published material about which the reviewer possesses personally identifiable information should be brought to the editor's attention. The chief is that Unpublished materials stated in a submitted work may not be utilized in a reviewer's study without the author's explicit written consent (s). Confidential information or ideas obtained through peer review must be maintained in confidence and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should abstain from considering papers in which they have a financial stake.

Authors' Responsibilities

Authors of original research reports should offer an accurate account of their work and a critical assessment of its significance. Data and citations should be accurately included in the paper. False or deliberate inaccuracies are unethical and must be avoided at all costs. Plagiarism can take various forms, including misrepresenting one's work as one's own, copying or paraphrasing significant chunks of another's paper (without attribution), and claiming conclusions from other people's investigations. Plagiarism is unethical publication behavior in any form and must be avoided.

In general, an author should avoid submitting work to more than one journal or major publication if it details the same topic in considerable detail. Submitting the same work to many journals concurrently is unethical and unprofessional. Without the specific, written approval of the source, no information collected informally, such as through conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, may be used or reported (s). Authorship should be restricted to those who made significant contributions to the study's conception, design, execution, or interpretation and those who reviewed and approved the final version of the work and gave approval to its publication.

In their publications, all authors should state any financial or other material conflicts of interest. When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in a published work, the author must promptly notify the IJEMAC editor-in-chief and cooperate with the editor to remove or correct the manuscript. For further details, please visit http://publicationethics.org/. 

Plagiarism

All articles submitted for external peer review undergo an initial screening for originality. By submitting their submissions to the journal, authors consent to the work undergoing all necessary originality checks during the publishing process.

The Publishing International Journal of Economics, Management, and Accounting (IJEMAC) is committed to upholding scientific ethics and integrity, which is why it picked a reputable partner to ensure the quality of scientific publications and entered into a collaboration agreement with Unicheck.

Plagiarism implies the use another author's work without permission or acknowledgement. Plagiarism may have different forms from copying word by word to rewriting. While defining plagiarism the following definitions are taken into account:

Literal copying
Copying the work word by word, in general or in parts, without permission or acknowledgement of the source. Literal copying is clearly plagiarism and is easily detected by plagiarism software and IJEMAC using turnitin software

 

Substantialcopying
Replicating substantial part of the work without permission and confirmation of the source. In determining what is "substantial", both the quantity and the quality of the copied content are relevant. Quality is measured by relative value of copied text comparing to the whole text. Where the essence of the work was copied, even not very big part of it, plagiarism is identified.

 

Paraphrasing
Copying may be made without literal replicating, used in the original work. This type of copying is known as paraphrasing and it may be the most difficult type of plagiarism to reveal.
Plagiarism in all its forms is unacceptable and will lead to immediate rejection of the paper along with possible sanctions against authors.