The Journal of Social Science & Multidisciplinary Enquiry (JSSME) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, editorial independence, transparency, and responsible scholarly communication.
The journal expects all authors, reviewers, editors, editorial board members, and the publisher to adhere to recognized standards of ethical conduct in scholarly publishing.
This policy is developed with reference to the principles and guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), including its Core Practices, ethical guidelines for peer reviewers, and guidance on corrections and retractions.
Authors submitting manuscripts to JSSME are expected to ensure that their work is original, accurately reported, ethically conducted, and appropriately documented.
Authors must:
Authors remain responsible for the accuracy and integrity of their submitted work.
JSSME recognizes that authorship should reflect genuine intellectual or scholarly contribution to a publication.
Individuals who have made substantial contributions to the conception, design, research, analysis, interpretation, or substantial drafting or revision of the manuscript should be appropriately acknowledged as authors.
Honorary, guest, gift, or fictitious authorship is not acceptable. Individuals who have contributed to the work but do not qualify for authorship should be appropriately acknowledged where appropriate and with their permission.
Requests to add, remove, or change the order of authors after submission or publication must be supported by an explanation and, where applicable, agreement from all affected authors.
JSSME does not accept plagiarism or other forms of inappropriate appropriation of another person's intellectual work.
Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:
All submissions are checked with Turnitin for similarity and AI-generated content before peer review. Manuscripts are not considered for publication if they exceed either of the following limits:
Where the similarity is minor, the author may be asked to revise the manuscript to address it. Where the similarity is substantial, the manuscript will be rejected immediately.
Authors must also avoid duplicate, redundant, or overlapping publication. Substantial portions of a manuscript should not have been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to another journal.
JSSME considers fabrication, falsification, and deliberate manipulation of research data to be serious forms of research misconduct.
Examples include:
Authors, reviewers, and editors must not manipulate citations for the purpose of artificially increasing citation counts, journal metrics, author metrics, or perceived scholarly influence.
Authors should cite literature because it is relevant to the research. Reviewers should not require authors to cite the reviewer's own publications or unrelated publications as a condition of favourable review.
Editors and editorial staff must not require unnecessary citations to JSSME or publications associated with the journal for the purpose of increasing journal metrics.
JSSME uses a peer-review process designed to provide fair, objective, constructive, and scholarly evaluation of manuscripts.
Reviewers are expected to:
Editors of JSSME are responsible for maintaining the academic and ethical integrity of the journal.
Editorial decisions should be based primarily on the scholarly quality, originality, relevance, methodological soundness, and contribution of the manuscript.
Editors must:
A conflict of interest may arise when an individual's personal, professional, financial, institutional, academic, or other interests could reasonably be perceived as influencing their judgment.
Authors must disclose relevant conflicts of interest at submission. Reviewers must disclose conflicts and decline to review where such conflicts could compromise their impartiality.
Editors must not handle manuscripts where they have a significant conflict of interest. Such manuscripts should, where possible, be assigned to an independent editor.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their research complies with relevant ethical and legal requirements.
Research involving human participants, personal data, vulnerable populations, or other ethically sensitive subjects should obtain appropriate ethical approval or institutional authorization where required.
Where applicable, manuscripts should provide information concerning:
Authors should provide sufficient methodological information to allow readers to understand, evaluate, and, where appropriate, reproduce or verify the research.
Where applicable, authors should provide information concerning data availability, research materials, analytical procedures, or other supporting materials.
Where ethical, legal, privacy, copyright, or confidentiality restrictions prevent data sharing, authors should clearly explain the relevant limitations.
JSSME recognizes that artificial intelligence and AI-assisted tools may be used in scholarly research and manuscript preparation. Such tools must not replace the author's responsibility for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and ethical acceptability of the submitted work.
AI tools must not be listed as authors.
Authors remain fully responsible for:
The journal will make reasonable efforts to maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and editorial communications.
Editors, reviewers, and editorial staff must not disclose information about a manuscript to unauthorized individuals.
Information obtained through peer review or editorial consideration must not be used for personal or professional advantage.
JSSME provides authors with the opportunity to raise legitimate concerns regarding editorial decisions, peer review, publication procedures, or ethical matters.
An appeal should:
Appeals will be reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief or another appropriate editor who was not directly involved in the original decision, where practicable.
Allegations of misconduct may be raised by authors, reviewers, readers, editors, institutions, whistleblowers, or other parties.
Concerns may relate to:
The journal will assess allegations on a case-by-case basis and may request explanations, supporting documentation, or institutional clarification where appropriate.
JSSME is committed to maintaining an accurate and permanent scholarly record.
When an error or ethical problem is identified after publication, the journal may publish:
Retraction notices will be linked to the original article and will clearly identify the reason for the action. The original publication will normally remain part of the scholarly record with an appropriate retraction notice rather than being silently removed.
Editorial decisions should be made independently of commercial, financial, political, personal, or other inappropriate influences.
Publication fees, waivers, institutional relationships, advertising, sponsorship, or other business considerations must not determine whether a manuscript is accepted or rejected.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted material does not unlawfully infringe the intellectual-property rights of others.
All sources, quotations, images, tables, figures, datasets, and other third-party materials must be appropriately acknowledged and used in accordance with applicable copyright and licensing requirements.
JSSME recognizes that misconduct may also occur within the editorial or peer-review process.
Examples include:
JSSME supports responsible scholarly discussion after publication.
Readers may communicate substantive concerns regarding published articles to the journal. Where appropriate, the journal may facilitate scholarly responses, corrections, clarifications, or other post-publication discussion.
Noesis Publishing, as the publisher of JSSME, supports the journal's commitment to publication ethics and academic integrity.
The publisher will:
Where an allegation concerns the Editor-in-Chief, a member of the editorial board, or the publisher, the matter should be handled by an independent editor or appropriate authority who is not directly involved in the allegation, where reasonably possible.
Where necessary, the journal may seek external advice or refer the matter to the relevant institution or research-integrity body.
JSSME encourages authors, reviewers, readers, and other members of the scholarly community to report credible concerns regarding research or publication misconduct.
Reports should be made in good faith and supported by relevant evidence where possible.
The journal will treat legitimate concerns seriously and will make reasonable efforts to protect complainants and whistleblowers from inappropriate retaliation, while respecting the rights of all parties involved.
JSSME will periodically review this Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement to ensure that it remains consistent with developments in scholarly publishing, research-integrity standards, and relevant COPE guidance.
JSSME is committed to preserving the reliability, transparency, and permanence of the scholarly record. Ethical concerns will be assessed fairly and proportionately, with due consideration given to evidence, confidentiality, the rights of authors and other parties, and the interests of readers and the wider scholarly community.
Where misconduct or serious error is established, JSSME will take appropriate action to correct the scholarly record.
COPE Commitment: JSSME follows the principles and relevant guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The journal's procedures are intended to reflect internationally recognized standards of responsible scholarly publishing.
The Journal of Social Science & Multidisciplinary Enquiry (JSSME) is a fully open access, peer-reviewed academic journal published by Noesis Publishing. All published articles are made freely and immediately available online upon publication.
JSSME does not require readers to subscribe, register, or pay any fee to access its published content. Articles may be read, downloaded, searched, linked to, and shared without subscription or paywall restrictions, subject to the terms of the applicable Creative Commons licence.
JSSME supports the principles of open scholarly communication and the widest possible dissemination of research. Open access to published articles is provided on a permanent basis, subject to the journal's procedures for corrections, expressions of concern, retractions, and other post-publication updates.
Where article processing charges (APCs) apply, such charges are separate from access to the journal's content. The payment or non-payment of an APC does not determine the academic quality assessment, peer-review outcome, or editorial decision on a manuscript.
Authors retain copyright in their published work, subject to the publishing agreement between the authors and JSSME.
Unless otherwise stated on the individual article, articles published in JSSME are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
The CC BY 4.0 licence permits anyone to share, copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the published material for any purpose, including commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), a link to the licence is provided, and any changes made to the material are indicated.
Appropriate attribution should identify the author(s), the article title, JSSME as the journal of publication, the publication information and DOI where available, and provide a link to the applicable Creative Commons licence.
The full terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence are available from Creative Commons.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for any third-party material included in their manuscript where such material is not covered by the article's Creative Commons licence. Third-party material may be subject to separate copyright or licensing conditions, which should be identified appropriately in the article.
The open access status of an article does not remove or limit the moral rights of authors or the rights of third parties in material that is not owned by the authors.
The Journal of Social Science & Multidisciplinary Enquiry (JSSME) is committed to the long-term preservation and accessibility of its published content.
JSSME participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) to ensure that published articles are securely archived and remain accessible in the event that the journal is no longer available online.
The journal’s published content is deposited in PKP PN through the journal’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. This preservation arrangement supports the long-term integrity, accessibility, and continuity of the scholarly record.
JSSME is committed to maintaining permanent access to its published scholarly content and to supporting recognized digital preservation practices.
JSSME permits authors to deposit the published version of their articles in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal academic websites, and other reputable repositories of their choice.
Authors may deposit the final published version immediately after publication, without an embargo, provided that the original JSSME publication and DOI are properly cited and linked.
Self-archiving does not affect the copyright, publication status, or version of record maintained by JSSME.
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