Editorial Policy

Overview: This policy describes guidelines in the publication process of our journals. Specifically, the Journal Issues adopts and strive to adhere to the following standards and requirements: COPE – Committee on Publication Ethics ICMJE – International Committee of Medical Journal Editors WAME – World Association of Medical EditorsThe policy encompasses and defines the following processes:

Publications Ethics: Journal of Business Strategy Finance and Management holds the ethics of publication as one of its core values and as such, adheres strictly to internationally accepted publication ethics. Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement are based, in large part, on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The relevant duties and expectations of authors, reviewers, and editors of the journal are set out below.

Citations: All the articles must cite inappropriate and relevant literature in support of the claims made. Excessive self-citation is inappropriate. Citation manipulation will result in the article being rejected and may be reported to authors’ institutions. Similarly, any attempts by peer-reviewers or editors to encourage such practices should be reported by authors to the publisher.

Allegations of Misconduct: Journals should have a clearly described process for handling allegations, whenever they are brought to the journal’s or publisher’s attention. Journals must take allegations of misconduct pre-publication and post-publication seriously. Read more…….https://publicationethics.org/misconduct Source: https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

Authorship and Contributor Ship: Clear policies (that allow for transparency around who contributed to the work and in what capacity) should be in place for requirements for authorship and contributorship as well as processes for managing potential disputes. Read more….. https://publicationethics.org/authorship Source: https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

Complaints and Appeal: Journals should have a clearly described process for handling complaints against the journal, its staff, editorial board, or publisher. Read more…. https://publicationethics.org/appeals Source: https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

Conflicts of Interest/Competing Interests: There must be clear definitions of conflicts of interest and processes for handling conflicts of interest of authors, reviewers, editors, journals, and publishers, whether identified before or after publication. Read more…. https://publicationethics.org/competinginterests Source: https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

Data and Reproducibility: Journals should include policies on data availability and encourage the use of reporting guidelines and registration of clinical trials and other study designs according to standard practice in their discipline. Read more…. https://publicationethics.org/data Source: https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

Ethical Oversight: Ethical oversight should include but is not limited to, policies on consent to publication, publication on vulnerable populations, ethical conduct of research using animals, ethical conduct of research using human subjects, handling confidential data, and of business/marketing practices. Read more…. https://publicationethics.org/oversight Source: https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

Intellectual Property: All policies on intellectual property, including copyright and publishing licenses, should be clearly described. In addition, any costs associated with publishing should be obvious to authors and readers. Read more…. https://publicationethics.org/intellectualproperty

Journal Management: A well-described and implemented infrastructure is essential, including the business model, policies, processes, and software for the efficient running of an editorially independent journal, as well as the efficient management and training of editorial boards and editorial and publishing staff. Read more….. https://publicationethics.org/management Source: https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

Peer Review Processes: All peer review processes must be transparently described and well managed. Journals should provide training for editors and reviewers and have policies on diverse aspects of peer review. Read more….Source: https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

Post-Publication Discussions and Corrections: Journals must allow debate post-publication either on their site, through letters to the editor, or on an external moderated site, such as PubPeer.Read more….Source: https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

Ethics of Human and Animal Experimentation: Established standards and procedures should be followed in the protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research whereby research participants are fully aware of the research and the impact and risk of such research on the research participant and others. Articles conducting any animal or clinical studies should contain a statement in accordance with the animal and human ethics committee. Research should be carried out in a manner that animals do not get affected unnecessarily. Registration is required for all clinical trials.

Statement of Informed Consent: All individuals has individual rights that are not to be infringed. Individual participants in studies have, for example, the right to decide what happens to the (identifiable) personal data gathered, to what they have said during a study or an interview, as well as to any photograph that was taken. The manuscripts that include details, images, or videos relating to individual participants, written informed consent for the publication of these must be obtained from the participants (or their parent or legal guardian in the case of children under 16) and a statement to this effect should appear in the manuscript. If the participant has died, then consent for publication must be sought from the next of kin of the participant. Documentation showing consent for publication must be made available to the Editor on request. In cases where images are entirely unidentifiable and there are no details on individuals reported within the manuscript, consent for publication of images may not be required. The final decision on whether consent to publish is required lies with the Editor.

Authorship and Copyright: The updated copyright policy statement comes into effect on 1st June 2018. As open-access Journal of Business Strategy Finance and Management follows the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which states that:

You are free to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Under the following Terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

The author retains certain rights as defined in the copyright and licensing policy. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Review: The review process is an important aspect of the publication process of an article. It helps an editor in making decisions on an article and also enables the author to improve the manuscript. Journal of Business Strategy Finance and Management uses a double-blind review, in which the identity of both the reviewer and the author are unknown to each other. This ensures impartiality and helps every paper get an unbiased review.

Model of Double-Blind Peer Review: Double-blind peer review is done by all the correspondence of author is monitored by assigned Editorial Board Members. Source: COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers(https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/cope-ethical-guidelines-peer-reviewers)

Plagiarism: “The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own” Oxford Dictionaries. In general, the manuscript should not already have been formally published in any journal or in any other citable form. If justified and made clear upon submission, there are exceptions to this rule. Journal of Business Strategy Finance and Management uses the Advanced Plagiarism Detection Software (CrossCheck by iThenticate) to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. It generates a similarity report, highlighting the percentage of overlap between the uploaded article and the published material. Any instance of content overlap is further scrutinized for suspected plagiarism according to the publisher’s Editorial Policies. Journal of Business Strategy Finance and Management allows an overall similarity of 15% for a manuscript to be considered for publication. The acceptable limit for similarity of text from a single source is 5%. If the similarity level is above 5%, the manuscript is returned to the author for paraphrasing the text and citing the original source of the copied material.

Correction, Retraction, Withdrawal Policy Corrections Before Publications:

PDF Galley proofs are sent to the author for proofreading, and corrections are done before the PDFs are sent for printing.

Post Publishing: Corrections are published if the publication record is seriously affected with regard to the accuracy of published information. Corrections are published in the subsequent issue under Corrections and addendum.

Retractions: Journal of Business Strategy Finance and Management Retraction policy is based, in large part, on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Please see: Click here to view the retraction policy.

Withdrawal Policy: Manuscripts may be withdrawn by submitting a letter to the editorial office stating the reasons for manuscript withdrawal. If an author requests a withdrawal within 10 days of submission, the author is allowed to withdraw the manuscript without paying any withdrawal fee however, if authors withdraw manuscripts any time after review and acceptance, a withdrawal fee will have to be paid. For India Rs. 1000/-For Other countries $50/-

Appeals and Complaints: Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should follow the procedure outlined in the JBSFM Editorial Policies.