Publication Ethics and Plagiarism Prevention

 

PUBLICATION ETHICS AND PUBLICATION MALPRACTICE STATEMENT

The ethical policy of Economic Analysis (EA) is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and complies with IR codes of conduct.

1. Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

  • Submitted manuscript must be the original work of the author(s);
  • Only unpublished manuscript should be submitted;
  • It is unethical to submit a manuscript to more than one journal concurrently;
  • Any conflict of interest must be clearly stated;
  • Acknowledge the sources of data used in the development of the manuscript;
  • The submitting (corresponding) author is responsible for ensuring that the manuscript article's publication has been approved by all the other coauthors;
  • All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

2. Submission Declaration

Submission of an article implies that:

The work described is authentic and valid and that neither this manuscript nor one with considerably similar content under this authorship has been published or is being considered for publication elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or in other language, without the written consent the copyright holder.

3. Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers

  • The Reviewers of the journal should assist the Editors in taking the decision for publishing the submitted manuscripts;
  • The Reviewers should maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts, which they are invited to review;
  • The Reviewers should provide comments in time that will help editors to make decision on the submitted manuscript to be published or not;
  • The Reviewers comments against each invited manuscript should be technical, professional and objective;
  • The Reviewers should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.

4. Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

Editors of EA must confirm the following:

  • That all manuscript are evaluated in fairness based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenry nor political values of authors;
  • The Editorial Board takes responsibility for making publication decisions for submitted manuscript based on the reviewer's evaluation of the manuscript, policies of the journal editorial board and legal restrain acting against plagiarism, libel and copyright infringement;
  • Preserve anonymity of reviewers.

5. Publishing Ethics Issues

  • Monitoring/safeguarding publishing ethics by editorial board;
  • Guidelines for retracting articles;
  • Maintain the integrity of the academic record;
  • Preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards;
  • Always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

5.1. Plagiarism Detection

Plagiarism occurs when someone presents the work of others (data, text, or theories) as if it was his/her own without proper acknowledgment. To help discover potential misconduct in the form of plagiarism or duplicate/redundant at submission stage, EA is using similarity ("plagiarism") detection software.

5.2. Duplicate Submission / Publication and Redundant Publication

Translations of articles without proper permission or notification and resubmission of previously published Open Access articles are considered duplications.

5.3. Citation Manipulation

Citation Manipulation is including excessive citations, in the submitted manuscript, that do not contribute to the scholarly content of the article and have been included solely for the purpose of increasing citations to a given author's work, or to articles published in a particular journal. This leads to misrepresenting the importance of the specific work and journal in which it appears and is thus a form of scientific misconduct.

6. Violation of Publication Ethics

Sanctions: In the event that there are documented violations, the following sanctions will be applied:

  • Immediate rejection of the infringing manuscript,
  • Immediate rejection of every other manuscript submitted to the journal published by any of the authors of the infringing manuscript,
  • Prohibition will be imposed for a minimum of 36 months against all of the authors for any new submissions to the journal, either individually or in combination with other authors of the infringing manuscript


PLAGIARISM

The authors who submit their manuscripts to be published in Economic Analysis should NOT claim or submit the academic work of another as one's own.

We agree with the definition of plagiarism as stated below:

"Plagiarism is copying another person's text or ideas and passing the copied material as your own work. "You must both delineate (i.e., separate and identify) the copied text from your text and give credit to (i.e., cite the source) the source of the copied text to avoid accusations of plagiarism. Plagiarism is considered fraud and has potentially harsh consequences including loss of job, loss of reputation, and the assignation of reduced or failing grade in a course.

This definition of plagiarism applies to copied text and ideas:

  • regardless of the source of the copied text or idea;
  • regardless of whether the author(s) of the text or idea which you have copied actually copied that text or idea from another source;
  • regardless of whether or not the authorship of the text or idea which you copy is known;
  • regardless of the nature of your text (journal paper/article, webpage, book chapter, paper submitted for a college course, etc) into which you copy the text or idea;
  • regardless of whether or not the author of the source of the copied material gives permission for the material to be copied; and
  • regardless of whether you are or are not the author of the source of the copied text or idea (self-plagiarism).

This definition also applies to figures and figure legends and for tables and table legends which you copy into your text.
Quoted from "Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Avoid It", Peter Cobbett, PhD, August 2016

Submitted manuscripts that fall under the definition of plagiarism will not be considered for publishing.

Editorial Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools is permitted in the creation and preparation of content for this Journal, provided such use complies with the following guidelines.

Scope of Use

AI tools may be used exclusively for technical and editorial support, such as language editing, proofreading, translation, summarization of author-provided material, and assistance in formatting or preliminary visual design.

AI tools must not be used for the generation of original research ideas, research design, data collection, data analysis, interpretation of results, or scholarly conclusions.

Authorship and Editorial Responsibility

All AI-assisted content must be reviewed, edited, and approved by a human author or editor. Full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, and ethical integrity of published material rests exclusively with the human contributor.

Transparency and Disclosure

Any significant use of AI in the creation of text, images, or data analysis must be clearly disclosed in accordance with the journal’s transparency standards.

Originality and Intellectual Property

Contributors must ensure that AI-assisted content does not infringe upon copyright, intellectual property rights, or the rights of third parties. Plagiarism, whether human- or AI-generated, is strictly prohibited.

Ethical Standards

AI must not be used to generate misleading, false, discriminatory, or otherwise harmful content, nor to fabricate sources, data, quotations, or identities.

Privacy and Data Protection

Confidential, personal, or sensitive data must not be entered into AI systems. All applicable data protection and privacy laws must be respected.