Publishing Ethics
Publishing Ethics Guidelines are designed to provide a set of minimum standards which should be followed by the editor of the journal, the reviewers, and the authors.
It is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parts involved in the act of publishing. JOURNAL OF FINANCE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (JFCG) is fully committed to good publication practice and assumes the task of fulfilling the following duties and responsibilities.
- Responsibilities of the Editor
The ethical responsibilities of editors include the ethical decision-making, the peer review process, advertising, conflict of interest, and how to deal with scientific misconduct.
Ethical Decision-making
Editors' decisions to accept or reject a paper for publication should be based only on the paper's importance, originality, and clarity, and the study's relevance to the remit of the journal.
Peer Review
The journal should be committed to peer review, and both research reports and unsolicited scientific reviews should go through this process. Invited reviews and commentaries should also receive critical peer comment. Peer reviewers are external experts chosen by editors to provide written opinions.
Scientific misconduct
The editors should refrain from considering manuscripts when there is a conflict of interest because of competition, cooperation and other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies or institutions associated with the manuscript. Editors should ensure the integrity of academic records and publish corrections, clarifications, retractions or apologies whenever needed.
- Responsibilities of Reviewers
In their role as reviewers, researchers should:
Honesty
Review submissions carefully, confidentially and without prejudice. Provide honest, precise, constructive and respectful feedback to authors by carefully explaining the reasoning behind their assessments, striving to be constructive and phrasing assessments in a temperate and scientific manner, free from insulting or unnecessarily negative comments.
Inappropriateness
Any referee who feels incapable of any raison to review the manuscript must notify the editor and decline to review the paper across the platform ASJP.
Conflict of interests
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider 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.
Plagiarism
Report potential cases of plagiarism to the journal editor.
Decision making
Not use the advanced access to unpublished research for the own purposes. For example, it should not undermine the original authors by rejecting the paper and then pursue the research idea on their own.
Time respect
Provide referee reports in a timely fashion, both out of professional courtesy and an interest in the expedient communication of research results.
- Responsibilities of Authors
Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
Data Access
Authors should retain raw data related to their submitted paper and must provide it for editorial review upon request of the Editor-in-Chief.
Authorship
Authors should take credit only for work they have performed and to which they have contributed. They should ensure that authorship and other publication credits are based on the scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, and not on their professional status or rank.
Unique submission
Not submit manuscripts to more than one publication at a time unless this is explicitly allowed by Editor-in-Chief.
Authors’ guide
Follow current JOURNAL rules and regulations with respect to journal submissions.
References
In publications authors are unauthorized to take data or material verbatim from another person’s written work, whether it is published, unpublished, or electronically available, and acknowledge and reference the use of others’ work, even if the work is not quoted verbatim or paraphrased, and they should not present others’ work as their own.
Language and data
Authors are also responsible for language editing before submitting the article. 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 behaviour and are unacceptable.
