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Publication Ethics

The ethics and rules defined by editorial committee of International Journal of Commerce, Industry and Entrepreneurship Studies (Utisgad Journal) is based on rules defined by Committee on Publication Ethics. In this context, it is expected to follow the instructions explained below and take the responsibility account from all stakeholders of the journal:

Editors’ Ethical Responsibilities

  • Editors should respect intellectual property rights while evaluating works, and should strive for qualified and rapid progress of the evaluation and publication processes of the work.
  • The process steps of the work evaluation processes should be published openly and transparently.
  • It should be ensured that the process of evaluation and publication of the work is qualified and fast.
  • Editors should appoint referees impartially in accordance with scientific evaluation principles and provide an environment of free thought.
  • It is expected that the journal will bring together many academicians who are experts in different fields, and that the editors will expand the scientific committee pool of the journal by reaching these academics and inviting them to the journal.
  • In order to make the work of the authors easier in the publication process in the journal, the editors should share a list containing the writing rules of the journal.
  • Every step in the evaluation process of the work sent to the journal should be shared with the owner of the work. When a positive or negative decision is made about the work, this information should be shared with the owner of the work in detail and scientifically evaluated.
  • In accordance with the principle of double-blind peer refereeing, the names and information of the authors and referees should be kept confidential and should not be shared.

Reviewers’ Ethical Responsibilities

  • Reviewers should accept peer-reviewing the studies that fall within their field of study and expertise. In order for the evaluation to be carried out effectively and accurately, it is very important that the reviewers accept the peer-review for the works that they trust in their competence.
  • In accordance with the principle of blind peer-review process, reviewers must keep their identities confidential. In addition, the reviewers should not reach information about the owners of the works they evaluate; otherwise, they should not evaluate the works of which they have knowledge about their authors, or they should terminate the task regarding the evaluated work and immediately contact the editors.
  • The stages in the evaluation process must be completed within the given time.
  • Reviewers are expected to approach the works they evaluate with an impartial and unbiased perspective.
  • At the end of the evaluation, the reviewers should share their reports which they prepared in a scientific and explanatory language with the editors.

Authors’ Ethical Responsibilities

  • Authors confirm that the submission has been submitted solely here and is not published, in press, or submitted elsewhere.
  • Authors confirm that all the research meets the ethical guidelines, including adherence to the legal requirements of the study country.
  • Authors confirm that they have prepared a complete text minus the title page, acknowledgements, and any running headers with author names, to allow blinded peer-review.
  • Authors confirm that submission hasn’t been submitted previously.
  • Authors confirm to publish article as open access under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence. International Journal of Commerce, Industry and Entrepreneurship Studies (Utisgad Journal) © 2022 is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 
  • Authors confirm that ethical standards for publication exist to ensure high-quality scientific publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that people receive credit for their ideas.

It is important to avoid:

  • Data fabrication and falsification: Data fabrication means the researcher did not actually do the study, but faked the data. Data falsification means the researcher did the experiment, but then changed some of the data.
  • Plagiarism: Taking the ideas and work of other scientists without giving them credit is unfair and dishonest. Copying even one sentence from someone else’s manuscript, or even one of your own that has previously been published, without proper citation is considered plagiarism—use your own words instead.
  • Multiple submissions: It is unethical to submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time. Doing this wastes the time of editors and peer reviewers, and can damage the reputation of the authors and the journals if published in more than one journal as the later publication will have to be retracted.
  • Redundant publications: This means publishing many very similar manuscripts based on the same experiment. Combining your results into one very robust paper is more likely to be of interest to a selective journal. Editors are likely to reject a weak paper that they suspect is a result of salami slicing.
  • Improper author contribution or attribution: All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved all its claims. Don’t forget to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution, including students and laboratory technicians. Do not “gift” authorship to those who did not contribute to the paper.

Publisher’s Responsibilities:

  • Utisgad Journal provides free-online access to its contents. All stakeholders of the journal are independent of the publisher, and all processes related to publication are carried out independently of the publisher.
  • The intellectual property rights of all stakeholders who contribute to the journal with their academic publications are reserved by Utisgad Journal.