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The Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement for Albukhary Social Business Journal (ASBJ) is dedicated to following best practices on ethical matters, errors and retractions. The journal follows the COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers.
1. Duties of Editors
Publication Decisions
The editorial board is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
The editorial board will be guided by the journal's policies and constrained by legal requirements related to libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. Editorial board members will confer and refer to reviewers' recommendations when making this decision.
Review of Manuscripts
The Managing Editor must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the Associate Editor for originality, using appropriate software. After passing this stage, the manuscript is forwarded to at least TWO (2) reviewers for double-blind review, each of whom will recommend accepting, rejecting, or modifying the manuscript. The review period will be up to 30 days.
Equality
The Managing Editor, member of the editorial board or reviewer must evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, political philosophy, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, citizenship, or religious belief of the authors.
Confidentiality
The review process takes place in two (2) stages. In the first stage, the Managing Editor must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, Editor-in-Chief or Advising Editors. The submitted manuscript will be assigned to potential reviewers. This stage concludes with the author and reviewers agreeing to continue their cooperation in the double-bind reviewing process.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's, reviewer's or any other reader's research without the author's written consent.
2. Duties of Reviewers
Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Reviewers assist the editorial board in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications during the double-blind review process. The process also involves the author in improving the paper.
Qualification of Reviewers
The editorial board is responsible for ensuring the competence of the reviewers based on their academic quality and research background.
If an appointed reviewer feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows its prompt review will be impossible, they should notify the Managing Editor and excuse from the review process.
Promptness
Authors will usually receive feedback about the acceptance of their paper for the reviewing process within two (2) weeks. In another four (4) weeks, they will generally receive the first response from the reviewers.
The editorial board is responsible for ensuring the promptness of responses in the peer review process.
Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review in the peer review process are subjected to the criteria of enhancing their rationality through the mutual rational controls of critical discussion.
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Authors are encouraged to make explicit the internal criteria they use to evaluate the validity of their contributions to knowledge. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments to enhance the quality of the paper through the mutual rational controls of critical discussion.
Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that the authors have not cited. The appropriate citation should accompany references to the ideas of others. A reviewer should also call to the Editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper they have personal knowledge.
Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Information or ideas obtained through peer review must only be used with the explicit agreement of the participants in the peer review. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts with conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
3. Duties of Authors
Reporting Standards
Authors of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed and an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to judge the validity of the contributions to knowledge. Authors would be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review and should be prepared to provide public access to such data and, in any event, be prepared to retain such data for at least two (2) years after publication. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.
Originality and Plagiarism
Authors will submit only entirely original works and will appropriately cite or quote the work and/or words of others. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work should also be cited. Plagiarism takes many forms, from "passing off" another's paper as the author's own to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another's paper (without attribution) to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
Multiple Publication and Concurrent Publication
Submitting the same manuscript to more than one (1) journal concurrently constitutes unacceptable publishing behaviour. Manuscripts which have been published as copyrighted material elsewhere cannot be submitted. In addition, manuscripts under review by the journal should not be resubmitted to copyrighted publications. However, by submitting a manuscript, the author(s) retains the published material's rights. In case of publication, they permit the use of their work under a CC BY license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/], which allows others to copy, distribute and transmit the work as well as to adapt the work and to make commercial use of it. An author should not generally publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one (1) journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one (1) journal concurrently constitutes unacceptable publishing behaviour.
Authorship of the Paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have contributed significantly to the conception, design, execution or interpretation of the reported study. Others who have made significant contributions must be listed as co-authors. Authors also ensure that all the authors have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript and that their names are included as co-authors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
Fundamental Errors in Published Works
When an author or reader discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in the published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal Editor and work with the Editor to retract or correct the paper.
Acknowledgement of Sources
Proper acknowledgement of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
4. Duties of the Publisher
Handling of Unethical Publishing Behaviour
In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication or plagiarism, the publisher, in close collaboration with the Editors-in-Chief, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum or, in the most severe cases, the complete retraction of the affected work. The publisher and the Editors shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred and under no circumstances encourage such misconduct or knowingly allow such misconduct to occur.
Equality
The publisher does not discriminate based on age, colour, religion, creed, disability, marital status, veteran status, national origin, race, gender, genetic predisposition or carrier status, or sexual orientation in its publishing programs, services and activities.
Access to Journal Content
The publisher is committed to the permanent availability and preservation of scholarly research and ensures accessibility by partnering with organisations/institutions and maintaining the digital archive.