Journal of Economic Cooperation and Development adopts the COPE guidelines on publication ethics.
JECD is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and combats plagiarism and other publication malpractices by taking all appropriate action. COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journals serve as the foundation for this assertion.
Duties of Reviewers
- Promptness: Journal editors are obliged to provide authors with review comments in a timely manner. If a reviewer fails to submit a report by the deadline, the paper will be forwarded immediately to another qualified reviewer.
- Confidentiality: The contents of the manuscript will be kept strictly confidential. The journal uses single-blind and double-blind procedures. Reviewers are not allowed to discuss contributions with anyone else, including the authors.
- Standard of objectivity: Editors and reviewers must evaluate the content of the manuscript. Reviewers' comments must be respectful to the authors. Reviewers must justify their decisions and recommendations.
- Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers should determine relevant published papers cited by the authors. Any statement of observation, derivation, or argument that has been previously reported should be accompanied by appropriate citations. Reviewers should also draw the editor's attention to any significant similarities or overlaps between the manuscript in question and other published work of which the reviewer is personally aware.
- Disclosure and conflict of interest: Peer-reviewed confidential information and ideas must be kept private and not used for personal gain. Conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any authors, businesses, or institutions associated with the papers should not be considered by reviewers.
Duties of Authors
- Reporting standards: Author should introduce an exact record of the work proceeded as well as an objective conversation of its importance. A paper has to contain adequate detail and references to allow others to imitate the work at every possible opportunity.
- Originality and plagiarism: JECD is focused on preventing plagiarism, including self-literary theft. The writers must guarantee that they have composed completely unique works, and assuming the writers have utilized the work as well as expressions of others that this has been fittingly referred to or cited. Authors are advised that papers with such issues will be rejected automatically.
- Multiple, redundant, or concurrent publication: The authors shouldn't simultaneously present similar article for publishing to different journals. After the initial manuscript has been accepted for publication, it is also expected that the author(s) will not publish duplicate manuscripts or manuscripts describing the same research in multiple venues. Concurrent accommodation is viewed as dishonest and is accordingly unsuitable.
- Acknowledgement of sources: The work of others must be acknowledged in writing. The author is required to cite any publications that led to the current research.
- Authorship of the paper: Only those who have made a significant contribution to the research that is reported in the manuscript should be considered authors.
- Disclosure and conflicts of interest: All authors must disclose in their manuscript any significant conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, that could be construed as influencing the results or interpretation of the manuscript.
- Fundamental errors in published works: It is the author's responsibility to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher of a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work and work with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
Duties of Editors
- Editors must ensure that research material they publish complies with internationally recognized ethical guidelines.
- Editors must protect the confidentiality of personal information. Editors guarantee the anonymity of reviewers and authors.
- Editors have a duty to intervene if misconduct is suspected.
- Not just papers that raise suspicions about possible misconduct should be rejected by editors.
