AJEE Publication Ethics
AJEE is proud of the high-quality content selected and published by us. We support the principles of academic publishing, in particular, honesty of authorship, excellence and thoroughness in research, transparency in publishing, respect to all participants of the publishing process. This requirement reflects these above mentioned principles and is strictly recommended for applying for publication.
All the necessary agreements of its confirmation are signed by authors and reviewers. If anyone has proper grounds for doubts or any concerns, that these rules have been carried out, please, let us know via e-mail editor@ajee-journal.com While investigation in a particular case will be provided, the Committee in Publishing Ethics (COPE) guidelines will be widely used.
The best practices of international publishing community were used for PEMS AJEE: The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/principles-transparency-and- best-practice-scholarly-publishing and Publishing Ethics Resource Kit for editors by Elsevier https://www.elsevier.com/editors/perk
All the necessary materials consisting of the requirements for publication in the Journal, in particular, the AJEE Authors Guide, the AJEE Reviewers Guide and AJEE Ethical and Legal Conditions, were sufficiently revised and updated according to this PEMS and are currently available on the web-site of the Journal http://ajee-journal.com/submissions see Attachments, please.
The Editorial Team and editors of AJEE are committed to their independence from any conflicts of interest, corporate, personal or any other influence, which may lead to a violation of the principles, specified here, or any widely used principles of publishing in the scholarly community.
The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the selection of materials for publication on the grounds of two external reviewers’ assessments.
All the Editorial Board and Advisory Board members share these principles and widely use practices of best publishing.
We try to ensure that any of our publication is free from influence, in particular, due to corporate or commercial benefits, as well as free from any form of conflicts of interest. Author(s) while submitting a manuscript should declare any potential conflicts of interest with any member of the editorial team, other staff of the Editorial Board or publisher, who could interfere with the objectivity of its assessment. By conflicts of interest we mean an influence on the submission, editing, reviewing and/or publication of a manuscript, the lack of which could lead to the refusal of the publication. By competing interest, we mean anything that could reasonably influence the full, objective and free opinion of the author, reviewer or editor, including the Editor-in-Chief concerning the publication of the particular article.
In the event of any allegations of an undisclosed conflict of interest, please, contact the Editor-in-Chief for investigation and decision-making of a publication retraction.
We support the freedom of expression as an integral part of academic research, unless any research misconduct is discovered. Also, we do not support any harmful or subjective statements, racist or any other form of discriminating points of view and any announcements, which may be considered as a human rights' violation. All the appeals concerning the violation of the decision-making process should be directed to Editor-in-Chief editor@ajee-journal.com
Malpractice Statement
Hereby, on behalf of the Editorial team and Editorial and Advisory Boards of AJEE we confirm our strong support of publication ethics and its wide application in our publishing activities. In the event of any concerns raised, an appeal may be directed to the Editor-in-Chief. They will be properly qualified, objectively investigated and, if the concerns are proven, the results will be acknowledged, in particular, publicly available and the publication will be retracted.
We support the idea of exchanging the information about proven research misconduct, in particular, plagiarism, between editors according to COPE Guidelines ‘Sharing of Information Among Editors-in-Chief Regarding Possible Misconduct’ https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/sharing-information-among-editors-chief-regarding-possible-misconduct and will carried it out. In the event of malpractice caused by professional negligence or incompetence of the part of author(s), reviewer(s), editor(s), claims can be brought before the Editor- in-Chief.
Among the grounds for allegations of malpractice may be the following:
- failing to exercise the skills and abilities that a similar situated professional in the same circumstances without reasonable cause;
- failing to meet professional standards, rules and practices, widely used in publishing, in particular, mentioned in COPE guidelines and/or Elsevier recommendations;
- failing to render services or keep an appropriated communication that a professional would apply under similar circumstances (in particular, within an investigation process). In the event of failing the publication ethics or malpractice, we recommend checking through the case practice of COPE, which may be found here https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Case
Research Misconduct. Plagiarism Prevention
Publication of the original and high-quality materials of authors for the world- wide scholar community is an important part of our work.
By research misconduct we assess the plagiarism, fabrication and falsification, as well as fraudulent research in all forms. We put our efforts to discover the above mentioned at all stages of the publishing process, and welcome in post publication. In the event that any research misconduct happens and is discovered within a proper investigation, it will lead to the retraction of the article with the necessary acknowledgement.
For the plagiarism prevention a fair and recognized definition what plagiarism means exists. We use both of the following documents for defining plagiarism with regard to the international publishing standards. Here you may find the ‘Legal guide for editors concerning ethics issues’ with particular recommendations about plagiarism detection, which we carried out work https://www.elsevier.com/editors/perk/legal-guide-for-editors