The prevention of publication malpractice is one of the important responsibilities of the editorial board of the 'JMI Journal of Management', the team is dedicated to following the best practices on ethical matters, errors, and retractions.
Duties of the Editor(s)
Publication Decisions: Based on the review report of the Board of Editors and the Board of Reviewers the editor has complete responsibility and authority to accept, reject or request modifications to the manuscript.
Review of the Manuscripts: Each editor must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor for originality, making use of appropriate software to do so.
Fair Review: The editor must ensure that each manuscript submitted to the 'JMI Journal of Management' is reviewed for its intellectual content without regard to the sex, gender, race, religion, citizenship, etc. of the authors.
Confidentiality: The editor must ensure that information regarding manuscripts submitted by the authors is kept confidential.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: The editor of this Journal shall not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for his/her research without the written consent of the author.
Ethical Guidelines: The editor shall ensure that all research material they publish conforms to the internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
Proof of Misconduct: The editor should not reject papers based on suspicions. They should have proof of misconduct.
Duties of Authors
Publication Guidelines: Authors must follow the submission guidelines of the 'JMI Journal of Management'
Original Work: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original work. Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
Multiple Submissions: Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.
Authorship of the Paper: All authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research.
Data Access and Retention: Authors should provide raw data related to their manuscript for editorial review and must retain such data.
Authenticity of Data: Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscripts. Authors must state that all data in the paper are authentic.
Duties of Reviewers
Confidentiality: Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers must ensure that authors have acknowledged all the sources of the data used in the research.
Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author.
Supporting Argument: Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Plagiarism, Fraud, and Other Ethical Concerns: Reviewers should let the editor know if they suspect/find that a manuscript is a substantial copy of another work, citing the previous work in as much detail as possible.
Relevant Work: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
Promptness: If a reviewer feels him/her can’t complete a review of the manuscript within the stipulated time then this information must be communicated to the editor so that the manuscript could be sent to another reviewer.
