Ethics Policy

Statement on ethics and malpractice

Before submitting to Gavesana Journal of Management, authors must read and understand our Ethics policy to ensure the highest publication ethics and prevent ethical misconduct. Our Ethics policy outlines the roles and responsibilities of authors, editors, and reviewers to maintain the journal’s scholarly integrity.

This ethics policy has been drawn from the guidelines for journals developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Authors’ Responsibilities

Authors must ensure the following:

1. The submitted Article is original, fully referenced, and does not infringe on any intellectual property rights or plagiarise any other published work.
2. Disclose the source of all data and third-party material, including unpublished author work. Things that could compromise the submission’s originality should be avoided or discussed with the editorial office first. Published plagiarism in any form is unethical.
3. Authors are those who contributed significantly to the article. Minor contributors are listed in Acknowledgements.
4. Provide accurate contact details for a designated corresponding author, who will be held fully responsible by the publisher and editor for the paper’s authorship and all ethical and originality communications.
5. The corresponding author must include all co-authors in the paper and ensure that they have seen and approved the final version and agreed to its publication.
6. The copyright owner or authorities have given written permission for the Article and Journal to reproduce third-party text, illustrations, and other material.
7. Declare any potential conflict of interest in the research that could influence the results or their interpretation in the manuscript or benefit a company or service in which the author(s) has a stake. The manuscript can include a statement to that effect.
8. The Acknowledgements list third-party support.
9. List all financial support for the work, including grant or reference numbers.
10. Sign a copyright form after accepting their work, assuming the Corresponding author can assign copyright to the publisher.
11. Respond promptly to editor and publisher requests for source data, authorship proof, and originality.
12. No other journal or publication is considering the Article, and it has never been published in its current or substantially similar form.
13. Authors must notify editors and help retract or correct significant errors in published works.’

Editors’ Responsibilities

Editors must ensure:

1. Accept and publish high-quality, relevant original work to maintain and improve journal reputation.
2. Objective and confidential peer review of articles that pass quality and editorial assessment.
3. Fair editorial evaluation where manuscripts are judged on their scholarly content, relevance, and contribution to literature, not the authors’ gender, race, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, or political philosophy.
4. Treat authors with respect and make the review and publication process as transparent as possible.
5. Give authors reasonable explanations and updates during and after submission.
6. Avoid conflicts of interest in articles.
7. Keep a submitted manuscript confidential to the corresponding author, reviewers, and publisher.
8. Correct errors and remove unethical, misleading, or misleading or damaging articles.
9. Keep the publisher and author informed.

Reviewers’ Responsibilities

Reviewers must ensure:

1. Keep manuscript content and authors’ identities confidential.
2. Objectively, impartially, and quickly review submitted work.
3. Check for conflicts of interest between authors and research topic.
4. Significant similarities between submitted manuscripts and other published works known to the reviewer, or other suspected ethical misconduct to report to the editor.
5. Offer “follow-up” advice to editors if requested.
6. Reviewers must obtain written permission from authors before using unpublished manuscript material in their own research.

The publisher, Gavesana Journal of Management, would ensure:

1. Publishing high-quality, relevant content on time and responsibly.
2. Describe our publication ethics on its website.
3. If necessary, use plagiarism detection software for journal submissions and publication.
4. Explain the journal’s referencing style, formatting, and submission process to authors.
5. Thoroughly investigate any ethical misconduct, including redundant publication and plagiarism, during the submissions process.
6. If scientific misconduct or fraud is proven, the publisher and editors will publish corrigenda and retract the affected work in a timely and responsible manner.
7. Communicate well with editors, authors, and reviewers.

Please email editor@vjim.edu.in with any questions.